Okey, if she’s just pooping, then don’t worry about it for a little while. Poops are a form of marking new territory so until she feels that the place is hers, she’ll leave little bb’s around. It could take a month or so until she’s settled in.

Now, if it is urination or spraying, you just pick her up and put her into her litter pan. You also should soak up a little of the pee with a paper towel and put the paper towel into her litter box.  Also, feel free to use a stern “NO!” when she does it.  They seem to know the word.

My gal’s bun will walk to the door where the litter box is but won’t go in unless she chases him in saying, “Potty box?” At which time he binkies, hops into the room and the box and wants you to see what a good boy he’s being!

This, of course, is to lull us into a false sense of security as he will hit the bed after I’ve been in it.

Another idea is to give her a litterbox outside the cage for run-around time. We do this for my bunnies and it doesn’t really cut down on their territorial poops but it gives them somewhere for me to nudge them into if they look like they are going to pee. Keep working on her training inside her cage too – my personal technique is just to clean up poops/pees as soon as I see them outside the litterbox, and to consistently put the poops into the litterbox where they belong, and a bit of paper towel with the pee I cleaned up each time.

I’ve been having small victories followed by hard times with TigerLily. She pees in her litter boc 90% of the time but then starts peeing on her sleeping blanket! I have 3 of the same blanket and i wash them with odorless detergent and place a new one in her cage when shee pees on it. I try to be as diligent about it as possible but when I am at work I cant keep track of the problem. She also leaves stray poops

However, when she is having free roam time in my living room she has not peed or pooped.

I know she is making slow progress, she is also only 3 months old and not yet spayed. Sometimes she does pee in the corner of the exit to the cage.

Should we expect her to not be 100% litter trained until we spay her? Also, how often to change the litter? I have been changing it every other day, her cage is next to my bed in my bedroom bc I have a small apartment and after a day it stinks! Oh and she lays in her litter pan! My dad who raised Rabbits in Cuba when he was younger said Rabbit pee is bad for Rabbits and it should be cleaned up right away and not left for her to lay or step in it, is this just an old wives tale or can the pee be harmful to her? Does anyone know?

Still Confused New Bunny Mom.

I’m glad you understand the ‘no punishment’ rule. More and more studies are showing, even dogs shouldn’t be punished…it’s just not the best way.

I’d plop her in her litter box when she does it and then pick up the poops by hand and show them to her, as you put them in the box, and praise her.

Leave the box dirty -if it smells like poo and pee, she’ll go there to do it. Change it half as often as you would normally, to help out.

Stray poops pick up and put in the box. Keep the rest of the area super clean so she gets the picture.

Some bunnies get it fully before they are spayed and some only are fully litter trained when they are spayed. I would put a litterbox outside the cage, thats what I have. I would just pick up your bun and put her in her litterbox when you see her lifting her tail to pee.