Untidy Bunny?

[MimzMum]

All obsessive/compulsive personalities welcome here! xD

Soo…do any of you find yourselves constantly tidying up after your messy rabbit whilst it is in it’s xpen? I’ve noticed that Pip, who is very fiesty, tends to leave me lots of mess as she goes tearing around the pen, and I find I can’t stand just leaving it and have to straighten skidded straw mats, pick up strands of hay carelessly tossed out of mangers, pick up stray poopies or pee, readjust baskets of toys and such and so on.

I am just nuts, right? Does anyone else have this problem? And the most important question….

Does it really matter to the bunny? :-/

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

I always expect them to be so happy once everythings cleaned and tidied…I honestly think they like it better with junk all over!!

[Beka27]

i have to limit myself to once a day. otherwise i’d be in there every ten minutes. mine are relatively neat… they tend to leave their stuff where i put it (i always put it back exactly the same), but they like to pull toys outta the toybox and leave them everywhere, and they alway dump their salad bowls and get greens everywhere. i put one bowl in the xpen, and one bowl on the other side of the room, and more then once i’ve walked in to go to my bedroom and stepped on a big, wet piece of lettuce left by the doorway… i’ve done this while carrying laundry (so i can’t see my feet) and it is scary…

[bunnytowne]

Yes I go through stages of obsessive compulsive.  When I first  Igot my shop vac I was vacuuming everyday.  Litter, hay all over the living room sticking to my feet getting tracked all over the place.  I need to vac now but hubby is sleeping. Oh I hate that  I do my cleaning in the morning and hubby wants to sleep all day.

We get up really early for morning prayer sometimes 4:50  and other times 6:15 depends on the sunrise.  Hubby will stay up for a couple of hours then go back to bed.

Well if the vac wakes him up oh well. I gotta clean

There are 2 boxes and 2 willow tunnels plus the mess.  I have been a neat freak.  It was hard to adjust when I had 2 stepkids 7 and 11 years old. Now it is the buns.  I have calmed down though.  I dont’ vacuum as often.  It was either adjust or drive myself nuts with the vacuum within arms reach all the time.  The longer the bunnies hair the bigger the mess. Especially when I just changed their litterboxes. I need to vacuum their cages too.

Strange thing tho I hate passionately hate to dust. I may dust 2x a year. sometimes 3x. But the floors and kitchen have to be clean. We have nice bedroom furniture now real wood and heavy so I tend to dust a little more often now to keep it up.

My parents divorced and my Mom insisted I dust every other day. GRRRr. I stopped doing it cause it wasn’t even dirty.

[Ana]

I agree! It drives me bonkers! My bun loves taking ALL of her hay out of the bin, and then eating it. It looks like it snowed hay. Such a mess. My bun is so, so untidy… and now I have a poo-out-of-box problem. I’m going nuts, so you’re definitely not alone. My bun likes moving her big cage (in her Xpen) around, so everything is always disorganized. We are their servants, though.

[BinkyBunny]

Jack doesn’t seem to mind when everything is a mess, but Rucy seems to prefer a tidy place AND a tidy box. She will not go in the box if there is a pile of poo in there, and with two bunnies, and Jack being a big bunny, he will leave piles of poo in there several times daily. I have a screen that is in the box where I can just easily dump it, and there are two boxes, but if I don’t get there in time, she will poo outside of the box. And it doesn’t have anything to do with territorial thing like not using the box that Jack went in, she won’t use the box she used a few times either.

I do have a handy shark sweeper that I keep in the bunny room, and it’s great about picking up hay and fur and stuff. And it only takes about 30 seconds.

[MimzMum]

Oh Mimzy is like that! 0_o By morning, if I haven’t gotten the mess he’s left in ONE SIDE of the box clean for him, he picks it up and starts throwing it with his teeth! ^_^ Luckily that leaves me ‘extra litter’ to then re-introduce for the next change.
Pip & Fiver will leave messes everywhere in the litter box. I rarely have to clean anything up in the night pens. But Pip likes to leave her mark EVERYWHERE in the xpen, doesn’t matter who’s in it.

Buns are weird sometimes…lolz.

[BinkyBunny]

Aren’t they going through a bonding thing? Has Pip always been like that?

[MimzMum]

Yes, we’re still trying to bond them. I just got some choice shots of them, what I can see of them under the tent, both snuggled together and FLAT out with their legs sticking straight back and their little heads cuddled together. I just heard them both bolt though, so the moment has passed, but since their trip to the vet this A.M., they’ve been real good with each other. However, we’re not quite finished bonding yet.
I also noticed, it’s not only Pip leaving messes about the xpen. Mimzy has taken to leaving his own calling cards hither and yon. Poor Pip, all this time I’ve been giving her the blamer!

Has Pip always been messy? Well, I guess she has, she came from the pet store you know. Those tanks are usually abysmally kept. And for the first few months when my daughter had her in her room, the cage wasn’t always kept in the best of shape. (Hence why I ‘confiscated’ bunny.) But Pip really, I think, prefers a clean and neat pen and doesn’t like to be crowded, (by mess or other bunnies.) I try to keep her living quarters as spotless as possible, as when I don’t I usually hear about it. (thumping, litter box throwing, etc.)

[JK]

Yes, yes, yes, and yes!  I am always tidying up too! Shaking towels, straightening things, vacuuming. I just can’t  stand to look at all the stuff in his room if it’s not picked up and orderly! I’m sure the buns could care less.

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