I shake out their blankets once a week and wash them. I brush them every day. It helps with the shedding. I find that certain materials help the fur adhere, so I brush their dog mats and that gets a lot of hair off – that would otherwise have been everywhere else High litter boxes help contain the hay. But in the end – whichever room I let the buns have a pen, requires a god amount of cleaning. So while I’m bonding them, I will be trying different ways to mae the area in their bedroom seem “new”. because after moving them from room to room – I had a lot of mess to clean up. If you keep them in an x-pen setup, you could pick a fabric to wrap around the bottom 2 feet of the pen to help contain their mess. But buns definitely make a mess. I am fortunate enough to have a spare bedroom – and it is the bunny/cat room. When I let my buns out in another room, I provide them a liter box, and toys that don’t involve chewing. That makes a mess. I give mine branches to chew. So I typically come home to sawdust… I do hope your partner is able to come to terms with a certain amount of mess. I agree with LBJ10 that you can clean clean clean – only to find you have no time left to enjoy your buns – or anything else. For that reason – I clean the liter boxes daily, but other than that, I only clean the rabbit room on weekends. That means shake out the blankets.fleece.towels outside, wash, vacuum the carpet. After shaking out and before washing – I also brush the flooring fabric to keep most of the hair out of the washing machine. They are messy creatures – can’t get around it. That being said – some are more messy than others. Once they are litter trained, there may still be the occasional stray poop. My territorial bossy dominant female leaves about 5 stray poops a day. My cute little male leaves maybe 1 stray poop every 3rd day.
I won’t give you my advice because your partner won’t like it…
All animals are messy. Dogs are messy – my dogs shed like beasts. They leave landmines all over the back yard. They drag mud and sand in., My cat makes stinky bombs and leaves hair and sand on my bed. My birds leave seed husks everywhere. And they can’t be litter trained… Now those little critters are really a mess. Talk about sweeping, scrubbing, disinfecting – wow. What a chore. Some people can accept a certain amount of mess, other’s can’t . Animals can’t be trained to be as meticulous as humans are about their mess. To them, it’s their world. To use – it’s a unacceptable mess. Try cleaning and rearranging your bunnies cage while she is in it – she will not be to pleased, and will rearrange her furniture as she sees fit – which humans might consider disorganized. It’s tough having animals with people who don’t accept their mess and the appearance of their living areas. Fact – you can’t make your bunny be as tidy as your partner wants. You can only keep the mess contained, and presentable. I hope your partner is able to understand this.