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Forum DIET & CARE peeing all over cage… solutions?!

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    • stella'smom
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        so, stella is just 7-8 weeks old. i do not expect her to be litter-trained. BUT when i first got her, i noticed that she peed and pooped in one corner of her cage, so i put the corner-litter box there (with hay in it). but i put her food bowl on the other side of the pen, and now i find almost no pee in thelitter box, and the area around her food bowl is DRENCHED with pee.

         

        So, i got rid of the corner litter pan, and replaced it with a throw-away aluminum baking pan, with carefresh litter in it, food bowl in one corner and hay in the other. i THINK this will eliminate the problem of her pooping and peeing while eating in the cage. (now she’ll just do it all in the litter pan).

         

        what do you all think? what do you al do?!


      • Beka27
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          You don’t have any bedding anywhere else in the cage, right? Sometimes if there is litter or soft bedding elsewhere, this can be confusing. At this point, the lack of litter habits is mostly due to her age. Best thing to do is keep cleaning it up as soon as you see it. You can disinfect the cage bottom with a mixture of water and white vinegar. Buns like to potty while they eat hay, so try to keep the hay rack above the litterbox. Eventually she’ll learn to not potty elsewhere.


        • LoveChaCha
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            If you see poop in areas that are not in her food bowl or litter box, I would put the poops into her litter box. It teaches ‘that is where you poop!’

            My bun likes to nom nom hay in the litter box, so I second what Beka has said


          • stella'smom
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              her cage is lined with a towel.

              i put her hay in the litter pan. but she was going pee while eating her pellets (on the other side of the cage), so i put her pellets in her litter pan also. so i guess my original question was how do you all do it? how do you get them to not pee while eating their pellets, or do you put their pellets in their litter box also?

              on another site someone told me that to litter-train her, i should keep her in the cage, watch where she naturally goes, put the litter box in that corner (which is what i originally did), and give her only supervised outside-cage play. then when she consistently goes in the pan, then let her out more and more often, to a bigger and bigger territory. the key is to not let her get into the habit of peeing anywhere she wants.


            • Monkeybun
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                Some bunnies like to pee on soft things like towels, so you may want to remove that from the cage.


              • stella'smom
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                  oh, interesting. thanks!

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