Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Why are my female rabbits doing "their business" in their food dish?

It drives me nuts and is just disgusting & I know it can’t be healthy.

Rabbits will mark their territory and mark their dish as their own as if they are saying that food is theirs.
In the wild rabbits mark all around their area and will even urinate and poo on the food they are eating.
I suggest you buy stainless steel 6 inch feeding bowls with holders that you can hook onto the side of the cage at a height that the rabbits cannot soil their dishes. You will find these in the parrot section of your pet store

I also suggest that if you haven’t already done so, get your doe’s spayed. This way you can toilet train them in litter trays. un neutered rabbits do have a habit of coming out of their good training habits.

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5 Responses to “Why are my female rabbits doing "their business" in their food dish?”

Hollie Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 11:15 am

they’re animals and they musnt care?!?!?
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T_RawRr Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 11:35 am

you can actually toilet train rabbits (although not many people know u can) they probably think its cleaner to do it in there than in the environment around it

try getting a kitty litter tray and see what happens
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Kimba: When you died, so did I Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 12:14 pm

they are using the food bowl like a litter tray, provide them with a couple kitty litter trays and make the food bowl smaller, instead of one large food bowl try adding a few small ones, if it still continues you can get some great pellet dispensor bowls from bird and fodder stores. It is not incredibly hygeinic but is unlikely to make them sick, because rabbits are herbivores the faeces are really just recycled grass and grain, it is unlikely to cause a problem even if they were to ingest the faeces as any parasites or bacteria in the faeces their body has already been exposed to
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Blue Rose Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 12:44 pm

I have a female rabbit but she does not do that! you should put a separate place for that from the place where she eats :)
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Tillysburrows Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 1:23 pm

Rabbits will mark their territory and mark their dish as their own as if they are saying that food is theirs.
In the wild rabbits mark all around their area and will even urinate and poo on the food they are eating.
I suggest you buy stainless steel 6 inch feeding bowls with holders that you can hook onto the side of the cage at a height that the rabbits cannot soil their dishes. You will find these in the parrot section of your pet store

I also suggest that if you haven’t already done so, get your doe’s spayed. This way you can toilet train them in litter trays. un neutered rabbits do have a habit of coming out of their good training habits.
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http://www.tillysburrows.webs.com
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