Thanks for saving them from a sad fate!

You’ve just gotta keep cleaning up. You only want litter in the litterboxes, put their hay in there too to encourage them to do their business in the box. Within the next couple weeks they should get better. How soon will they be able to be altered?

I trained my female (unspayed when I got her) by using the cage she came with (which was way too small) as her litterbox to start with because she was familiar with it – I filled it with litter, let her choose her spots, then slowly began moving the litter out of the bottom of the cage and just into the litterbox. Every day I would take another section of litter up and by time it was all up, she was completely litter trained because she recognized the litter as where to go. My male (unaltered when I got him as well) litter trained himself but he will NOT use a litterbox unless it’s kind of hidden – I have 3 baby gate panels in an open cube for his main one (he won’t use the box without the “corner”) and the other is against the wall with some random items blocking off the space to make it a corner as well.

So my suggestion would be see if they have any specific spots they like to pee in and place a couple of litterboxes there, if you happen to notice any habits like preferring a dark hidden place, try to use that instinct to your advantage. Also, place a couple of pieces of dirty litter (just get it wet) into the boxes so they know the smell and clean up the other areas with vinegar whenever you notice them using it.

What are you using as litter? Some rabbits are highly offended by the smell of wooden litters (my male avoids his litterbox completely if I use wood pellets, but my female is fine with them).

Good for you for rescuing them and it just takes time with some rescues – they were poorly treated, if starved I bet they had to lay in their own waste a lot, they need to get used to being clean, healthy rabbits again.

It’s best to use the same litter in their pan as they are used to using – so if they are going on the carefresh, add it to the litter pan. You can mix the yesterdays news and carefresh, but they might recognize the carefresh easier. My female is a lot more active than my male too, she’s a little spunky thing that came as skittish as can be thanks to her previous owners mistreatment. Hopefully they get the weight up soon, poor little babies.