The easiest method to keep your rabbit from pooping all over the place is to get it spayed or neutered. This will lessen the rabbit's territorial impulses, which force them to spread their droppings. You should also make sure they have a friendly and easily accessible litter box at all times.
If you didn't know already, rabbits poop quite often. Ok, maybe that's not as cute as we'd like it to be. But frequent pooping is very normal for most rabbits. In fact they can release up to 300 pellets per day!
Obesity - overweight rabbits often struggle to clean themselves and tend to move around less/sit in dirty bedding. Diarrhoea - if your rabbit has diarrhoea, they are very likely to develop a dirty bottom, especially if they are feeling too unwell to groom.
As the main cause of sticky bottom is incorrect diet, the problem can be treated by reducing the amount of dry food and fresh vegetables/fruit given to the rabbit and encouraging them to eat more hay.
You can, however, give your bunny a gentle butt bath with warm water and gentle shampoo. You can also use rabbit safe pet wipes to give your rabbit's skin a wipe-down. A dry bath with cornstarch is another option.
In general, rabbit poop is not harmful to humans, cats, dogs, or other animals. The diseases that can be transmitted through their feces are species specific and would only pose a threat to other rabbits. Even then, it's likely that if your rabbit is healthy, they will not spread anything through their poop.
Keep your rabbit's bottom as clean as possible and check every day, a few times per day, during warmer weather. Any sign of fly eggs or maggots, and you need to get your rabbit to the vet immediately. Don't wait to wash it; just go to the vet now.
Baby wipes are the easiest method of cleaning your rabbit without bathing it. Use baby wipes that are fragrance-free, alcohol-free and hypo-allergenic for best results. You want a wipe that is strong enough to clean your bunny without tearing, and which is soft so that it won't hurt your bunny's skin.
It is a good idea to check your rabbit's litter box each morning when you are feeding your bun and refilling its water bottle. A lot of rabbit owners use the 'nose rule'. If it smells bad, it is time to clean the litter box!
Your rabbits produce two types of faeces: hard, dry waste pellets, and soft, moist droppings that contain nutrients. The latter is the one they choose to eat, and all for good reason (despite what you may think). This happens once a day.
Normal, healthy rabbit poop should have little to no variation in color. Drastic changes in color between pellets and pellet piles are a huge sign that there could be some internal upset. Very dark, almost black poops are an indicator that there is too much protein in your rabbit's diet.
You can expect that if the rabbit eats a large amount of hay in the morning, they will produce a large amount of fecal poops around 5 hours later, while the cecotropes will take much longer to be ready for redigestion.
You'll often find rabbit cages made up of different materials, the most popular of which include plastic, metal, and wood. Plastic is obviously the most affordable and easy to clean, and even wire cages tend to have a plastic tray in the bottom to contain your rabbit's pee.
Hay and straw are ideal bedding materials. First and foremostly, because it's natural for your bunny to be surrounded by them. These materials are completely bunny safe. In fact, your rabbits should be eating it.
Spot cleaning a rabbit. The first option for washing a rabbit when they get dirty is to simply spot clean them. You simply take a damp washcloth and work out any stains or dirt from your rabbit's fur. It's okay to use a little bit of soap to help if it's a tough spot to clean.
Part of a rabbit's toolbox
Wild rabbits' nails stay short from all the digging and hopping over rocks and hard surfaces but for our pet rabbits there is often nothing to wear the nails down. This means the nails may need to be clipped regularly.
The most dreaded part of bunny care, cleaning the scent glands. There are two glands, on either side of their genitals. They can build up and cause a lot of odor problems when full. The substance hardens and it can be quite uncomfortable for the rabbit, especially if they get infected.
Normal Intestinal Products
They should be relatively spherical, somewhat dry and friable, and composed mostly of undigested fiber. Rabbits do not ordinarily re-ingest fecal pellets, though a few bunnies seem to enjoy an occasional fecal pellet hors d'ouevre with no harm.
Healthy Poops
Friable means that they'll have a stable form, but if you apply gentle pressure and roll them between your fingers, they'll fall apart into something resembling sawdust as in the photo. Bunny poops can get pretty hard as they dry out, so test a fresh one if possible.
Apart from eating these droppings, rabbits are extremely clean animals and like to have their own 'bunny bathrooms' - dedicated areas in their hutch for sleeping, eating and toileting.
Rabbits are capable of a wide range of emotions including jealousy, anger, fear, grief, love, irritability and insecurity. Understanding what is really going on in any particular rabbit's head may take months or even years of patient observance, particularly when you do not know the history of the rabbit from birth.
The total amount of fresh food that you may give to your rabbit daily (once your bunny has been gradually introduced to it), is a minimum of 1 heaping cup (loosely packed), per 5 pound of body weight, given two times a day.