bunniculadude
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Let me start of by saying, I am not an experienced or knowledgeable rabbit owner and I can already tell just from googling my problems that I have been an extremely lax rabbit owner as far as enforcing litter training habits, accidentally of course. I'm pet sitting for an extended period of time as a favor to a friend and I was admittedly clueless about caring for a rabbit. She's a free roaming and (supposedly) litter trained year old rabbit that has been staying with me for two months now. My bed is just a mattress plus a boxspring without a bed frame, so it's low to the ground and she comes onto the bed with ease. She's pooped on my bed before but never more than a couple droppings every so often that I promptly threw back into her litter box without much thought, and it never really bothered me much other than having to wash my sheets more frequently.
For the past week, nearly daily, she's been peeing in my bed non stop and I've been so busy with a particularly hectic week at work that I haven't had time to try to deal with this problem until now. At first I chalked it up to her acting out since I've been gone for longer during the day thanks to work and even though I was annoyed, I just scolded her when I got home and either changed or washed my sheets again, and this time she's gone too far. I had just gotten home from work and I laid down in bed, the rabbit hopped up on the bed with me and I pet her and cuddled her for a while. When I went to read my book, she turned around and peed on me! Not only was I utterly disgusted, I had no idea what to do. She's never actually done it in front of me before so I knew I had to make it known that was not okay. So I put her in her cage as punishment and then set up a sectioned of part of my room where that is the only part of the room she can freely go when she's used to having free reign of my room.
I asked the original owner if she had ever done something like this before and he said it was very odd of her to do. She does not normally pee anywhere but her box and she never had a lot of droppings around the house but I came home today to a bed full of presents and more pee stains. In case she was sick, I put some probiotics in her water. What else can I do? I'm at a loss here, this is a really gross problem to have. What do I do?
For the past week, nearly daily, she's been peeing in my bed non stop and I've been so busy with a particularly hectic week at work that I haven't had time to try to deal with this problem until now. At first I chalked it up to her acting out since I've been gone for longer during the day thanks to work and even though I was annoyed, I just scolded her when I got home and either changed or washed my sheets again, and this time she's gone too far. I had just gotten home from work and I laid down in bed, the rabbit hopped up on the bed with me and I pet her and cuddled her for a while. When I went to read my book, she turned around and peed on me! Not only was I utterly disgusted, I had no idea what to do. She's never actually done it in front of me before so I knew I had to make it known that was not okay. So I put her in her cage as punishment and then set up a sectioned of part of my room where that is the only part of the room she can freely go when she's used to having free reign of my room.
I asked the original owner if she had ever done something like this before and he said it was very odd of her to do. She does not normally pee anywhere but her box and she never had a lot of droppings around the house but I came home today to a bed full of presents and more pee stains. In case she was sick, I put some probiotics in her water. What else can I do? I'm at a loss here, this is a really gross problem to have. What do I do?