It is advisable, when you first get a pet rabbit, to let it settle into its cage for the first few hours and let it pee there. Once a rabbit chooses a spot to pee in, it will return to that spot whenever it needs to pee.
Those were the facts running inside my head on Sunday when I checked on the rabbit first thing in the morning and was greeted by the sight of viscous, yellow fluid puddling on the floor right outside of the cage.
Why was the rabbit peeing outside her cage? How the hell did she even manage do that when she was inside the cage?!
“Male rabbits do that,” said a friend with two pet rabbits. “They tend to spray their pee outside the cage.”
Yeah, but Phoebe is female?
“Well, females do it too. Although most of the time it’s due to missing the mark.”
Ah.
“You can stop them from peeing on that spot by wiping some vinegar over it.”
Hmm.
I wiped the pee off the floor, stared at it, and observed the rabbit for the rest of the day. She didn’t seem to spray over the cage again, so I let her be. She was getting more well behaved as well, as I let her out again and she hopped back into her cage without me having to attempt getting her in. Yay, progress!