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Forum BEHAVIOR Starting Litter Box Training

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    • Dani1301
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        Hey Everyone!

        So I’ve gotten a lot of great tips by going through this site but I didn’t see anything, I don’t think, about my particular situation. I just adopted an 8 week old lion head doe. She was used to being in a wire cage and was not started on litter box training. Im not a fan of wire cages so I made an xpen using storage cubes with a textured linoleum flooring. She has a hidey house tunnel as well as a couple of toys. I put two litter boxes in the pen, one in each corner in the back and then blocked off the front two corners with her water dish and little bed. She will go in the litter box to eat her hay and pellets but she doesn’t quite get that she needs to use the bathroom in there. She will pee and poop all over the pen. I clean up her poops and pee and put the tissue in her litter box so she smells it I know it’s going to take awhile to train her as she is a baby but she is so fuzzy and low to the ground that when she pees it gets al over the bottom of her and in her fur. She squirms all around when I try cleaning her with a baby wipe and even with the baby wipe it doesn’t get her all that clean. I don’t want her to always have pee all over her so I’m just wondering if anyone has some advice for me.

        Much Appreciated,
        Dani


      • Azerane
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          Anything that can be put down on the bottom of the flooring may also make training a little more difficult as rabbits like to pee on soft things and bedding/hay will just confuse with where the litter tray is. However that being said, if you put down a layer of old towels, and then on top of that a fleece blanket which will wick the moisture away into the towels below, it will stop her soaking in puddles of pee. You can hold them down with the litter boxes and bowls in the corners. The problem with this, is that it doesn’t really teach where the litter box is because the pee smell with still be sitting there on the fleece which will only encourage more peeing in that place. Unlike just having the lino flooring, where when they make a mess you can wipe it up and put the tissue in the litter tray like you’re doing and clean it with 50/50 vinegar water to take away the smell.


        • BinkyBunny
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            Actually, I think Azerane is on to something. I don’t think it will take away from her litter box habits because even if she pees and poos on the the linoleum, it will be there until you clean it up there anyway. You don’t want to leave the fleece longer than when you when you would normally clean up the linoleum so that means going through a lot of fleece or towel cleaning! But what you could do is go to a fabric store and get several yards or so of some fleece fabric, and cut to the size you want, but get enough so you have plenty to replace often. Unfortunately, you will get a pile of laundry!

            I think that due to your bunny being young, that she will be messy — just the nature of her youth, and during that time, until she “gets it” or is spayed, you will be dealing with this issue. I really like Azerane’s idea as a solution to help wick away the moisture for now.

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