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Forum BEHAVIOR litter training in cage versus outside of cage

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    • Deleted User
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        I love how everyone seems to have the fleece blanket lining for their rabbit habitats, and I would love to do this! Does anyone have advice on litter training inside the cage? I have big litter boxes in each cage, and they do use it but they use every other corner in the cage as well. I have tried using litter in the boxes and bedding in the cage, and scraping up the pee and poo to put it in the litter boxes to no avail.

        They are more or less litter trained in the pen outside of their cages which they have free access to. But not inside the cage.

         

        Suggetions?


      • Baby-Daisy
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          Same problem I had, I just put litter boxes in the places they seem to use the most. I also put treats in the boxes. Hope I helped!


        • Deleted User
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            Thank you I will have to try that. I had extra boxes in there before they were all neutered and spayed,but not afterward. Maybe now they will have the focus that they need!


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              Hi marshmallowwhisper, I don’t have anything in Henry’s cage especially a fleece blanket. The one time I did, he peed all over it and once I removed it, he was all good again and went back to using his litter tray. Henry has the one litter tray that is accessible from his cage and when he is out (so just the one litter tray) and we have it positioned ‘in’ his carrier, so a good size. Maybe, like us he appreciates the privacy? And being easily accessible from inside and outside his house, for all the hanging out he does, I’ve never come across a bunny wee, and very rarely the odd poop. He treats his toilet no differently to how we treat ours. I could be wrong, but I can’t help but wonder sometimes do bun’s get confused having toilets everywhere? And is the space roomy enough to hang out and read a magazine?


            • MoveDiagonally
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                How big are the cages? Sometimes smaller cages can be seen entirely as litter boxes.


              • Peony
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                  Well for me I have the litter box on the bottom floor of her hutch.(not sure if her hutch is considered a cage) During the day she has free access to the hutch and pen till my mom wants to sleep. So at night she is locked in her hutch and does fine. Within the litterbox she does her business in a specific corner in it.

                  But ya size matters a lot, my “cage” is 44 inches by 21 inches with a 15 by 17 litter box

                    I say the issue might be the betting, it might be like litter to them or something. I just use towels to cover the plastic on the second floor and gave her towels on the first floor as well after she started to dig at the carpet. Now that she has towels to dig at to make a bed, she seems happy.

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              Forum BEHAVIOR litter training in cage versus outside of cage