How do you toilet train rabbits?

Question

I have two 5 month old male rabbits. They haven't been castrated yet but will be in 3 weeks. They seem to do their droppings all over the hutch and even the run when they go in. It is a two level hutch so a lot has to be thrown away and it is costing a fortune. How can i train them to do it all in one place?

Answer 1

they normally urinate in 1 corner of the hutch i bought a litter tray for rabbits at pets at home and put it in the corner and they used it straight away they will still put droppings everywhere not so much though hope this helps

Answer 2

I'm not sure, rabbits are clean animals and usually use one corner of their hutch for the toilet corner. Perhaps when they are neutered they will stick to the same corner?

Answer 3

You can't, rabbit's are a type of animal that does not get toilet trained, it is supposed to p**p all over the place. When you clean it out, clean all of it out because its (rabbit) sup post to p**p at over the place.  

Answer 4

First you can not train a Rabbit to "go" where you want it too.

They choose a "midden" that is their favourite spot to "go"you can then put in a litter tray with some "cat lit",but if it don't like it! it will move some-where else.

Try putting some of their droppings in the tray and they may get the idea?

They choose their spot and that is it.

Answer 5

Place them in the toilet, close the lid and flush.

Answer 6

observe where it pees. Example it pees on the left hand corner, then put the litter pan at the exact same spot.  After that scoop its pee and poo and put it inside there.  Eventually it will learn to pee and poo there because it smells its bowels there.  Also accident might happend like peeing outside of the place accidentally so dun get pissed.  Just talk to him let him know about it and he will learn.  Everytime when he p**p elsewhere, scoop it and throw it into the pan infront of the bunny.  He will know he must do it there.  This is how i train my bunny.

Answer 7

Its actually pretty simple. You will need to get a litter box though. They are pretty cheap. Just get one of the corner boxes for small animals, they seem to work the best. There should be a corner that they pick to pee in, thats where the litter box should be put. Make sure you put some of their p**p in the box to show them that they should go in there. From there its up to them. They usually catch on pretty fast, especially for peeing. The harder part is making them p**p in there. I had a lot of trouble with that with my bunny. Having them nuetered should help a lot too. Then they wont be pooping to mark their territory and they should be better to train. I think thats it.

If you have any other questions about it you can go to www.rabbit.org and they have more information on it.

Hope it all goes well!

Oh it may also help to place hay in the litter box then they are more likely to eat and go in the litter box at the same time.

Answer 8

They are doing their droppings everywhere to mark their territory. Hopefully when they are castrated they may start using one area then you can then put a plastic tray in this area. Our rabbits preferred to use a tray when it has hay in it and they are pretty good but they do still occassionally scatter their poo if we move the run to a different place in the garden for the first couple of days, as if to claim that bit of garden as their own.

Answer 9

try using like a cat litter tray but don't put cat litter in just use normal shavings or shredded paper but when there older rabbits tend to start using one corner of there hutch to litter in  

Answer 10

i have 10 bunnies that live in the house all litter trained corner litter tray scoop up some pee and p**p pop it in and top with nice hay bunnies love to eat when using the loo, never use clumping litter or cat litter best stuff is megazorb dead safe as bunnies love to eat the litter newspaper based litter contains ink traces which can be bad over long use look at hayexperts.co.uk they have good products and safe best of luck never shout at the buns when they make a mistake they don't understand and never get angry