Remmy and the Bed

[Zap]

I think he is just doing it because he knows he is not supposed to.  My fiance’s bed and my bed are in the same room and I don’t mind if Remmy wants to jump on my bed now that he doesn’t have accidents on it anymore.  Unfortunately, my fiance does not want Remmy on his bed, and guess which bed Remmy chooses?  I have heard that rubbing vinegar on the bed will discourage this, but if there is vinegar on the bed, I highly doubt a human would want to sleep in it, either.

 

I certainly wouldn’t.

[Beka27]

His bed will need to be blocked off or covered up then. A bed is a bed to a bunny, they are not going to have the cognitive reasoning to know that one bed is okay and the other bed is not. They also don’t do things for spite. Lol…

[Sarita]

Yes, he cannot distinguish whose bed is whose. The best is to just keep him out of the bedroom altogether.

[RabbitPam]

I agree that he doesn’t care which bed is which, as long as it’s OK to be on a bed. I’m afraid Sarita’s solution is probably the best and the simplest.

“They also don’t do things for spite.” – I’m not so sure about that, Beka….

[KatnipCrzy]

I agree with the others- restrict access to the bed or room. It may not necessarily be a forever thing- sometimes once bunnies settle into a routine, mature, are fixed (not sure if your bunny is?)- they may not want to mark their territory on the bed anymore.

[Eva_M]

I never managed to convince Eva that she shouldn’t go on my daughters’ bed to pee. And I used vinegar heavily to get the stains out. It did not work so for us the only option was to block her out of that room all together.

[Dee]

I think they pee on beds/couches to prove a point- “This is mine now- I like it, therefore you are no longer worthy of it so I shall decorate it to prove my point.” BunBun has peed on the couch when I used to discourage him from ripping apart the cushions. He also peed on our bed several times- I think this is because he’s not allowed in our bedroom all the time, just when we’re there. Once he peed on my pillow when he was there alone with Rick . I’m sure if he had free access to the bedroom/bed, he wouldn’t pee on it because he would be secure in the fact that it was “his”.
I agree- the simplest solution is to only let him have supervised visits to your room. Be prepared for him to try desparately (and deviously) to sneak into your room though. When BunBun used to play on our bed, he was always trying to break into our bedroom. We would open the door and immediately a twitchy little bunny snout would pop into the room- if we weren’t quick enough, he would dash under the bed and hide. He would also lurk in the hallway and listen carefully for the door- if Rick forgot to fully close it, he would race down the hallway and try to squeeze in. I lived in fear of carelessly swinging the door shut and crushing his poor nose. We finally had to altogether stop letting BunBun into our room. It took a few weeks, but eventually he gave up on it. Good luck .

[Zap]

He doesn’t pee on the bed, he just jumps on it and hops around.

We live in a shared house and our bedroom is where Remmy lives, so we can’t really keep him out.  I put some vinegar on the edges of the bed and it seems to be keeping him off for now, though I wonder if there is a way to encourage him to visit my bed?

[Monkeybun]

It will confuse him if you keep him off one and encourage him onto another. It definitely will not help the issue. SO I would go with either allowed on both, or not at all.

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