Rabbit help

[richatnort]

So we have a 6 month old house rabbit who's been neutered about 3 weeks ago. The problem we're having is if he gets the chance to he wees in the same place on the sofa. When he does it we lock him in his cage and ignore him for the remainder of the night but it's not working. I was wondering if anyone seen had this issue and how they got over it?

[richatnort]

essayer said:

Agreed, lots of reward for peeing in the right place. Do rabbits respond to positive/ negative training like dogs do? Negative training (ignoring him) may not be as effective.

Agree with rewarding him when he does do it in the right place but he does do it in the right place already just occasionally on the sofa when he gets chance. It's really hard to know too when he has done a wee unless you monitor him all the time which isn't ideal.

[richatnort]

andy43 said:

As already said, Mop up wee with sawdust or paper, place in litter tray and repeat. When the litter tray stinks enough, lay it on the just-cleaned sofa. Hopefully he should wee in it. Then start moving the tray gradually towards the cage...
They only wee where it smells right - a pair of housewabbits here and 100% is done in their tray.
Hope you're considering a companion for him.

Edited by andy43 on Thursday 15th January 20:13

Not easy to mop up as it's a fabric sofa. Plus I don't really like the idea of putting the tray on the sofa as we only have 1 litter tray in his cage.

Yes getting him a friend in March

[richatnort]

We've been lucky so far because we put a throw over the sofa which has grabbed most of his piss!

[richatnort]

Thanks for all the advice. He does his business in his tray in his cage and that's it. It's just a couple of times but in the last two weeks we've been keeping him off the sofa which works. All I need to do now is remember to move my Chelsea boots as he bloody loves the rubber and leather the little bleeder!

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i can't believe so many people talking about biting wires/ furniture! is this something that will come when the rabbit gets older? he's 7 months old now and like i say apart from weeing on the sofa and doing poos on the the floor outside his cage he's been good as gold!

[richatnort]

Update: we have got another litter tray now so hoping to put that on the sofa and then hopefully move it to his corner behind the chair where he goes when he wants to get away from us. Hopefully this will work in time for his girlfriend to come! We try and keep cables away from him and the only time he did it was on my. Laptop charger and he got a good telling off and hasn't touched anything since.

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Sorry to call on you again but got a slight problem with Charlie again. So we've noticed he's not been himself over the last 2 days. He just runs away from you and is producing really small poo. After numerous hours on Google we think he might be constipated or have a fur ball as he's currently malting. Just wondering if anyone else has had something similar? We're obviously monitoring it and have taken away all veg and Pellets and left him with steamed hay and water to try and help him unblock it.

Just looking for a bit if advice before we have to make the trip to the vets for the 3rd time on 2 months

[richatnort]

so he's gone to the vets and it turns out he's got long teeth! He's staying in for the night so he's ready for his op in the morning.

The most annoying part of it all is his stupid pet cover doesn't cover it so we're having to foot the bill.

Does anyone have any recommendations of a good pet insurance they would recommend that actually covers things like dental care.