Litter training

[wannacow]

I am totally new to rabbits, but I've wanted a Flemish Giant for a pet for a long time. I had the opportunity to buy a 6wk old doe in June. She was pretty small, but is growing like a weed. I've heard that rabbits can be litter trained. How do you go about doing that? Right now she is in a hutch in the barn, but as a pet, I would like to have her in the house, especially in the winter. She doesn't necessarily need to live in the house, since we heat the part of the barn she will be in, but pets need to be with their families. Dh keeps saying "no", but he's brought her into the house too. I think he can be easily swayed if she is litter trained.

 

[Shiloh Acres]

I've never purposely litter-trained one, but I've had a few (maybe more than a few!) think that any box placed in their cage was for that purpose.

Hopefully you'll get more specific advice from someone who has done it, but I'm betting it won't be that hard and might even possibly be accomplished just by putting a litterpan in her cage.

Good luck with her.

 

[Catalina]

My bun has been litter trained from the day I brought him home. I just put a litter box underneath his hay rack and he trained himself!
If you want more info on house rabbits I like the Binky Bunny web site or the house rabbit society.

 

[Mango]

I've had house bunnies for years now

All of mine have been litterbox trained and some have even had their own room where they never stayed in a cage.

With all the ones I've had, having them spayed or neutered helped 100% with the litter box. My very 1st ones were intact adults and they continued to pee outside the box but once they were fixed they stopped with a month or so. They lived to 12 yrs old. Since them, everyone has been fixed ASAP.
I start them out in a decent size cage with a litter box and no towels or bedding. I use the wal-mart or kroger brand of carefresh b/c the pet stores are expensive. I also give them their hay in one side of the litterbox. If they pee or poop somewhere else in the cage. I'd clean it and added another box where they went.
The most I've had to use was 3 and that was with the adults. With them, once they started using all the boxes and not going anywhere else in the cage, I'd take away the box less used. Then give it some more time and take away the 2nd box and leave the one most used. The 2 I got as adults where the ones that had run of their own room 24x7 and they never pee'd or poop anywhere but the box

With all the rescue's I've taken in, fixed and found homes most of the young ones only started with one box and caught on quickly.

My house bun now is a holland lop whose 4 months old. We neutered him at work a month ago. He did great with his litter box from the time I got him when he was 6 weeks old. He did occasionally poop in my livingroom floor when out to play but that has stopped in the past 2 weeks. If he's gotta go when out, he goes back to his cage and uses his box