Pine pellets question?

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- 06/27/2018 at 8:51 AM
  Toby Da Bunny
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  Hi all, just a quick concern… do any of you use pine pellets as litter? I just switched to the ExquisiCat natural pine litter and now Toby and Ollie don’t know that this is their bathroom. They were used to paper bedding with a paper towel on top. I switched because their bottoms were getting wet and dirty. Any tips? How did you get your buns to adjust to the switch? I tried soaking a piece of paper towel in their pee (now they are peeing all over the cage) and putting it on the litter box but it doesn’t seem to help much :/
  
  Let me know!
- 06/27/2018 at 9:12 AM
  Sirius&Luna
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  My bunnies also totally stopped using the litter box when I switched to pine pellets. Spoiled brats
  
  I just gave in and switched back to be honest, but you could try pine pellets with a layer of paper bedding on top? It should be more absorbent still and you could gradually swap over completely.
- 06/27/2018 at 9:19 AM
  Toby Da Bunny
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  Thanks! Do you think with the paper towel on top they would still be less dirty? Because I’d really rather not use it, their feet were starting to get really yellow and dirty because of it
- 06/27/2018 at 9:28 AM
  Sirius&Luna
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  I don’t think the paper towel would be helping, I think it would make the pee sit on the top to be honest. I would just do a layer of pine pellets, and a layer of the paper litter on top. I think the pine pellets are a little harder on their feet, so that may be what’s putting them off. So a layer of their usual litter should help soften it and also help associations with litter = toilet, but the pine pellets should make it more absorbent than it was.
  
  It might also be worth going back to whatever you were using completely for a day so they go back to using the tray. Once you have a messy litter tray, then you could half empty it and refill it with pine pellets so it still smells like their litter tray.
- 06/27/2018 at 9:36 AM
  Toby Da Bunny
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  Yeah I think you’re right thanks! I think I’m just going to sprinkle some of the paper bedding on top of the pine pellets and see if that helps ?
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