Litterbox Trained IN but not OUT of the cage

[ystloom]

I have a new addition  – SADIE - a 3month old Holland Lop  that I adopted a week ago. Sadie was litter trained in the cage within a day.   She gets exercise time outside the cage for at least 2 hours each night.  She can easily get in and out of the cage during this time since it is at floor level and the door is open when she is out roaming.  My problem is she is leaving gifts all over the place during play time.  She has discovered she can jump on the couch which has got her doing binkys constantly  butfor the past two nights she has urinated on the couch.   I have watched her like a hawk and for the poo – there is no tell-tale sign she is going except the trail I get to follow.   For the urinating – there is no tail-raising…just a pause in her forward progress. I have been putting her in her litterbox when I see that starting but it hasn’t seemed to worked yet.    Any suggestions?  Would a litterbox outside the cage help?

[meow1]

Hi, my Sunny bunny uses his litter box inside his cage, and will go into his cage to use it while he’s out in the room where his cage is. Once he’s out of that room and in the living room, he is not so good, so I added another litterbox and 99% of the time he will pee in it, but he sometimes will pee on the couch or other places if I’m not watching closely. Poos are a regular occurrence outside the litterbox while in the living room, but not in the room that his cage is in. I don’t why he does this, or why yours does either. Maybe someone can shed some more light on the subject on WHY. But I do think another litterbox could be beneficial, as it has in my situtation.

[Monkeybun]

you won’t really be able to fully litter train her until she has been spayed. She’s marking territory, as she’s new to the home, and is peeing on the couch as it smells strongly of you humans, not of her. Spaying in a few months will help. In the mean time, you’ll want to restrict her territory a bit.

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