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Question: how to get bunnies to stop peeing on sofa


I have this bunny who has recently learned he is capable of jumping on the sofas. He can jump on all of them now, and usually it’s fine, but there is this 1 particular sofa that he seems to always pee on.

He has been neutered for a year, he’s a year and a half old and he has impeccable litterbox habbits (as in, he *always* uses his litterbox and has actually not had an accident, albiet a stray poop ball here and there). He doesn’t spray urine or anything and doesn’t leave scent marking poops.

He’s peed a few times on this sofa. My father usually falls asleep on this one, so I’m not sure if that has something to do with it. It’s only this sofa he pees on. Twice was with my father laying on it, but just now was just bunny on the sofa and peeing.

We got him off the sofa right away, said “no, no” – which he usually understands but more in regards to chewing…), and cleaned up the urine each time, but clearly, this has become a habit. Has anyone experienced something like this before and was able to successfully get it to stop? He’s free roam but we can’t be having him pee on a sofa; it’s gross.

I’ve seen that it could be that maybe the sofa smells like dirty human (😳) and he thinks it’s a human toilet and also about him trying to show dominance? Does anyone here have any ideas and hopefully any solutions?

Offending bunny in question is pictured (snoozing without a care in the world, which I feel is most fitting for this situation, from his perspective).

by Physical_Bit7972

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