Poop Bomb

[Lintini]

Bun has been so good about her litter box in her cage. Scary good…considering she was in a hutch before I got her. So now I give her my room to play in, and I let her stay in it all day and just put her to bed at night. I read a lot that you have to give them a little room at first and work from there, but she still is having accidents. I keep encouraging the use of the litter box when she has the free run of my room, but she is using it like 50% of the time. I put food near it so she can eat hay and go potty…I don’t know it’s like a huge poop bomb goes off in my room. I put sheets down, but it’s the pee rather that is bad, poops I can just pick up. Since she was doing so well I was just giving her the run of my room and took down the huge grid cage I made and was just using a cage that’s about 3’x5′ for her to sleep in. Now I think I might have to reconsider re-making a cage for her since she is being naughty and I don’t like bunny pee on my carpet. I was making sure she was the one leaving and going in and out of “her” cage so she knows its “hers.” Do you think she just doesn’t consider my bedroom to be hers yet and that would explain all the accidents? I really want to give her my entire bedroom to play in, and eventually the entire downstairs but I don’t see it happening anytime soon.

 

I’ve cut her down to a portion of my room again, but you can still see that she is pooping around. The only think I could think of at the moment is trying a larger litter box? Should I cut a chunk out of the side, since the pans we have are all large, and she is pretty small. I guess maybe she will be better about it after her spay? Excuse the bed, I pull up all my sheets just incase she wants to try to eat them.

[jerseygirl]

Does she still have the smaller cage nearby the pen set-up? I’m just wondering if you have that accessable with litter box still in it, maybe she’d go back to her cage to potty. Good idea to have another in the pen also though. Could you put something down over the carpet that is waterproof, rather than the sheet/blanket? That way you can mop up urine and put the urine soaked towel back into the litter box. More & more i think they pee on absorbant towels, blankets etc because it wicks the pee away, just like litter. On plastic or vinyl, perhaps this would happen less…..? I’d say the pooping is because she DOES think of the room to be hers and she’s marking it with poop. Usually that’s just temporary.

[Lintini]

I have been lifting it up and down so, no..she can’t get back in herself unless I leave it down there. I was removing it to give her room since it takes up half that area. That does make sense though. I will try letting her have the entire room again and put her night cage under my desk and see if that works. Thank you!!

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