So, good news is my Bun is completely litter trained and will go back into her cage during free time to use it, Yeah! So I’m reluctant to change up litter box to throw her off, but things have gotten a little rough here.
The summary.
Started with a corner litter box (the high back, low front ones) and care fresh paper bedding for litter after a couple of false starts with other options. Worked great. Moved her to bigger cage, she likes to throw stuff around, kept flipping litter box, but hey, corner litter box has a snap hook, there we go.
But we aren’t happy with that, dig/kick out litter. Learn to still bang box against ground and get all litter out. Still using litter box! Litter box completely eaten along edge, so I take a cue from here and try a rectangle one. Might have been a little small for her, but she let her feelings know by pushing it out of the way and soon as cage door was open shoving it out. Several days, still just shoved in out.
On to a new corner pan with TWO clips. It’s solid. No she just digs the litter (and poop) out. She is digging all the litter out and emptying it as soon as I put it in all fresh, so it’s not because it needs changed. Tried adding hay, still just empties it out. That would be fine, but then it’s just a soup of urine and poop and she’s sitting in it. I know that is not good for her. So I just lined it with newspaper and put some hay in this am. Got hay out ASAP, left newspaper. I just don’t think the newspaper is absorbent enough to keep her bunny but dry and hygienic enough.
Any thoughts? If I could get a deeper, larger pan that she would use and I could secure down somehow that might help. But I haven’t seen any securement ideas for them.
Addendum: In the time it took me to post this she managed to dig out the flat newspaper and had folding carefully and really wedged in there, and throw it out of cage. She really doesn’t like litter! Still using pan.