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- 03/19/2008 at 4:16 PM
  Charlene
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  I must be a litterbox failure. I would be thrilled if my buns would stop peeing (really more piddling, since it’s just a little bit) on the rug. Here’s their living situation:
  
  Big cage with mesh floor and resting areas. They get “turnout” into the roon 4 hours a day.
  I have 4 boxes with hay in them out in the room.
  Both Lily and Big are spay/neutered.
  Most pooping and peeing occurs in the boxes, but there are always some poops and worse yet pees on the rug everyday!
  
  One BIG question: I had buns before (only semi-successfully trained) and when they got old they peed on the rug a lot. It’s stained and gross, but I am hesitant to replace it just so Big and Lily can do the same. Or is the residual smell making them mark?
  
  Many friends I gave the rescue sibling away to report perfect box behavior! But they only have one bun and they have hardwood floors. Should I get hardwood floors (this may certainly happen anyway since I don’t want another ruined rug)? Or is it because they only have one bun?
  
  In the first month or so I spent innumerable hours trying to watch them and make sure they went in the box, but there were many of them and this was difficult. Do I really need to spend 4 hours a day watching them like hawks? I’d feel bad not letting them out for so long, but I can’t realistically watch them that long either. Ideas?
- 03/19/2008 at 4:46 PM
  Beka27
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  not sure if it would help, but i would try either borrowing or renting a carpet cleaner and doing that room. you’d benefit with a clean carpet and it may help that behavior.
- 03/19/2008 at 6:20 PM
  Charlene
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  Actually, we own one (lots of bad pets and I do it every week. Sigh… Any other ideas? Please? How I could be such a litter box training failure?
- 03/20/2008 at 3:09 AM
  kimberleyanddarren
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  i totally sympathise with you charlene i am having the same trouble with litterbox training and i replicate your *sigh* lol
- 03/22/2008 at 2:15 AM
  BunnyLugs
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  ditto – sigh – just live in hope. Are they young?? Mine are fairly young. Not yet a year
- 03/24/2008 at 12:53 PM
  Gravehearted
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  hmm- so they’re neutered which is good. I’d actually try to scale back their territory until they really get the hang of it. X-pens work very well for sectioning off rooms as you’re working on potty training. Once they’re only going in the boxes, you can slowly expand it out again
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