What a great story ! I would never have thought that a rabbit would be possessive like that, but I guess that this is typical of a lot of animals, more than just dogs or cats.
I have had rabbits before; but they were always outside and lived in a rabbit hutch, and not in the house. I have never tried to house train one; but I have read about other people who have had one that was house trained.
Some animals just seem naturally more inclined to be house trained than other ones. Goats seem to just go no matter where they are, and I can't really imagine being able to house train a goat. However, a llama, which is a lot like an overgrown goat, is just naturally house trained, so to speak. They will pick an area that they consider to be their "bathroom", and then they go right there, and not anywhere else unless they are left elsewhere for so long that they are forced to go somewhere else.
My llama used to come in the house, and he would lay right down in the middle of the floor, just like an enormous dog. When he needed to go out, he would get up, and stand by the door looking out and whining. (I am not sure if whining is the correct term for it, but that is about as close of a definition as can come up with.)
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