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I have a little doeling, about 14 weeks old, the runt of her litter, that I am trying to litter train because she's going to be a pet.
She's just as sweet as sugar, but the one thing she does not do is use the litter box.
I've tried everything I know. I put her in the solid-bottomed cage with some shavings and hay in the bottom, then a box of shavings and water and food and all. I soaked up some bunny urine from the rabbitry and put it in the box of shavings. This has always worked for me before, the few times I've done it, so I didn't think anything of it.
...Until I realized she was keeping her shavings box clean and using it as a bed, and peeing in the floor of the cage.
Take 2: Cleaned the cage thoroughly, and put in fresh shavings and hay in the floor, her bed box with shavings, and an additional box of stall pellets. I soaked up some of her own urine and put it in the shavings box, and put it in the corner where she seemed to pee the most.
So then she had a bed box and a sitting box. Two boxes to jump back and forth to. But she still went in the hay and shavings on the floor, rather than use one of them as a litter box.
Take 3: Again, cleaned the cage thoroughly, strongly Pine-Sol-ing the whole thing, making sure that nothing in there smelled like bunny pee except the litter box. I took a healthy scoop or two of wet shavings and put them on top of the stall pellets, so there was no mistaking where pee was supposed to go. This time, I put nothing on the floor of the cage, figuring that she wouldn't want to pee on the hard floor. I put the box in the corner where she peed the most.
Wrong. No sooner was she back in her fresh cage, than she urinated on the hard floor pan in the corner where the litter box used to be. I dried it up, and used a Clorox wipe on it to take away the smell, but I'm at a loss.
What do I do now?
She's just as sweet as sugar, but the one thing she does not do is use the litter box.
I've tried everything I know. I put her in the solid-bottomed cage with some shavings and hay in the bottom, then a box of shavings and water and food and all. I soaked up some bunny urine from the rabbitry and put it in the box of shavings. This has always worked for me before, the few times I've done it, so I didn't think anything of it.
...Until I realized she was keeping her shavings box clean and using it as a bed, and peeing in the floor of the cage.
Take 2: Cleaned the cage thoroughly, and put in fresh shavings and hay in the floor, her bed box with shavings, and an additional box of stall pellets. I soaked up some of her own urine and put it in the shavings box, and put it in the corner where she seemed to pee the most.
So then she had a bed box and a sitting box. Two boxes to jump back and forth to. But she still went in the hay and shavings on the floor, rather than use one of them as a litter box.
Take 3: Again, cleaned the cage thoroughly, strongly Pine-Sol-ing the whole thing, making sure that nothing in there smelled like bunny pee except the litter box. I took a healthy scoop or two of wet shavings and put them on top of the stall pellets, so there was no mistaking where pee was supposed to go. This time, I put nothing on the floor of the cage, figuring that she wouldn't want to pee on the hard floor. I put the box in the corner where she peed the most.
Wrong. No sooner was she back in her fresh cage, than she urinated on the hard floor pan in the corner where the litter box used to be. I dried it up, and used a Clorox wipe on it to take away the smell, but I'm at a loss.
What do I do now?
