cleaning routine

[Elliriyanna]

What cleaning routine do you use? and what do you use to clean? 

Just daily sweep up poops? or is there a better option? 

I plan to clean up poops at least once daily and clean the litter box Monday, Wednesday, Friday ( The same days I feed the turtles and the gecko so its easy to remember) 

The floor of the pen will also be wiped down as needed with unscented baby wipes, if that doesn’t work I have a 50/50 vinegar and water solution but I would really rather not go around spraying that in his pen. 

[Sarita]

I think it’s going to depend on your tolerance for cleanliness and your rabbit’s cleanliness.

I vacuum Bobby’s area daily. Clean his litter box once a week with vinegar/water.

I think you’ll figure out your routine once you see how it is with your rabbit to see what you actually end up doing :~)

[Elliriyanna]

I was thinking of getting a small lightweight quiet vacuum but didn’t want to scare him

[Sarita]

I have a rigged up Dyson and it doesn’t scare my rabbit at all…just wait to see how he is before you start buying a bunch of stuff! You may be surprised.

[Little Lion Head]

We vacuum the living room (where the condo is) about once per week. We actually shop vac up the stray hay and poops 2-5 times per week depending on how messy they are being. The shop vac does scare the bejeebus out of them, but they just run off to another room to pout about it if it’s bugging them!

Litter box gets emptied about 2 times per week (its pretty big and the buns share it). I wash it out really good with dawn dish soap about every 4th time I empty it.

It really will just depend. Your bunny might be really tidy or a total chaotic disaster!

I’d really like to get some sort of handheld shop vac. I’m sick of running out to the garage every time I need it!

[Elliriyanna]

The only thing I wanted to buy was a lightweight vacuum because I will probably be cleaning up poops.

My friend said he is litter training bUT I have to see the extent of it when he comes home.

[Whobott]

I scoop his box every night and pick up any stray poops every night, I clean the fur off of everything every night and about once a month I vacuum and spray down his whole cage and I will clean his box with baking soda and vinegar (the bubble lift off many of the gross stuff ) and I spray it with 50/50 vinegar water spray.

[gingerg]

I have three rabbits. Gadget and Gizmo live in a two-level condo in the living room, while Gear lives in a single-level cage in my bedroom. Gadget and Giz are adult holland lops, and have very large shared litter box. Gear is a six-month-old netherland dwarf, and so has a smaller litterbox.

Every morning, as I feed them their pellets and refresh their hay, I pick up the stray poops that didn’t make it into the litter box, and place them in the litterbox, hoping that they’ll get the message that the pills belong in the box (Gear is still learning; Gadget and Gizmo leave about 10-20 poops on the first floor of their condo every day, but as they don’t poop in the upstairs level and almost rarely outside of the condo, I call it ‘good enough’). When I come home from work, I do the same — refreshing hay, feeding veggies and moving the oops poops into the litterboxes.

Gadget and Gizmo kick out a lot of poops per day, and are good drinkers, so I have to change the litter in the box twice a week. Gear a lot less so, so I usually only change once a week. In addition to this, I do a ‘deep clean’ every weekend. For the deep clean, I empty and soak both of the litterboxes with white vinegar (nothing removes stains like it), then wash them out and wipe them down with Clorox wipes. I take everything out of the condos and use my Dustbuster to vacuum up all the shed hair, random strands of hay, etc., from each of the condos (which does freak the rabbits out, but I can’t get the hair out of the condo carpets without a vacuum). Next I scrub down all of the non-carpet surfaces in the cages with Clorox wipes. I wash/change out each of the bunnies’ cushions/towels, then put everything back in the cages. Gear will hide in his hidey-hole during all of this, Gadget will run off to a far corner of the condo, and Gizmo will start out afraid, then come to wherever I’m using the vacuum and start to poke at it. Then I’ve got a bit of sweeping up to do outside of Gadget and Gizmo’s condo (as they track hay everywhere), and I’m done.

[Elliriyanna]

Those of you who use x-pens … do stray poops ever get kicked out?

I was thinking of if it does ( I know it will depend on him) getting some 5 inch edging and zip tying it around the cage ( On the inside) I know it would be a risk to chew … So I am waiting to see how he does first but I would like to know how likely it is poops and or hay will end up outside his enclosure. I hesitate to call a 4×8 pen a cage.

[Tessie]

Posted By Elliriyanna on 5/11/2015 9:39 AM

Those of you who use x-pens … do stray poops ever get kicked out?

Yes! 

[JackRabbit]

We rarely have any kicked outside the xpen, put the xpen area is huge.

Tessie — Hahaha! I’m not sure anything could contain a well-aimed poop with your big beautiful bunnies!

[Little Lion Head]

Poop and hay get kicked out here all the time but these two are stilling pooping everywhere for whatever reason!

[Elliriyanna]

I have been told he is 90% on pooping in the litter box and 100% on peeing in it.

[Holly]

I vacuum his pen with a dust buster every day. Replace his piece of flannel every day, and clean his litter box every day. (I keep two litter boxes in rotation so it’s easy to just switch out with the clean one and wash the other for the next day.) My Elop is still a baby but so far he usually only leaves 1 or 2 poops outside his litter box and always pees in it, so cleaning is not hard at all. Really I am surprised dust busters aren’t more popular.

[alicekou]

I will clean up poops on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Brush the feeding bowl with a dish scrubber every day.

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