Even if you plan to keep only a single rabbit, you are more likely to deal with inappropriate urination if your pet is intact, because unspayed and unneutered rabbits
often mark their territory with urine.
These territorial hounds are intelligent animals and naturally,
they mark their territories with urine or faeces.
For example, your pet may be less likely to exhibit inappropriate mounting, less likely to
mark their territory with their urine (a.k.a. «spraying»), and may be less likely to fight.
Male dogs who are not neutered will
mark their territory with urine.
When your dog is in heat, her vulva enlarges, and she may leak a bloody discharge from the vagina and
mark territory with her urine to advertise her fertility.
A: When a cat sprays, he is exhibiting the male tendency to
mark his territory with urine.
Spaying or neutering your rabbit will minimize the risk of cancer and diseases that affect reproductive organs and eliminate their instinct to
mark the territory with urine.
However, if your cat is
marking territory with urine, you'll want to teach your cat how to stop.
Neutering provides major health and behavioral benefits, including a reduced desire to roam away from home,
marking their territory with urine and overall aggression, plus a reduction in cancers, perianal hernia and pyometra.
If your pet is young and has just begun «spraying» (
marking their territory with urine) getting them fixed can stop this behavior.
Unneutered cats and dogs are far more likely to
mark their territory with urine, often all over your house.
Males are less likely to roam, act aggressively towards other males, or
mark their territory with urine.
Established colonies mean less territorial aggression, and the cats living in them will spray less (
mark territory with urine) and have fewer of those loud cat fights that can wake people up at night.
Evidence shows that pets that are sterilized are less likely to fight, roam and will lose the desire to
mark their territory with urine.
Behaviors associated with unaltered cats, such as yowling and
marking territory with urine, will disappear.
They will be far less territorial and will rarely spray or
mark their territory with urine.
Both neutered male canines and felines tend to stop roaming and fighting, and they also lose the desire to
mark their territory with urine.
In addition, a male rabbit that is spraying or
marking his territory with urine, «humping» everything and everyone in his environment incessantly, or acting aggressively would be a good candidate for a neutering.