[equusvilla]

This was mentioned on the other 'enablers' post. How is this done??

[BeastieSlave]

Maybe we were lucky, but our bunny just trained herself. We put a litter box in her cage and "presto" she was trained! She was a house bun who spent her days in an outside hutch or running free in mydaughter's room. She would return to the cage for the litter box when in the room.
FWIW, we used one of those corner litter boxes that attached to the wire and pine pellets for litter.

[mjrtango93]

Maybe we were lucky, but our bunny just trained herself. We put a litter box in her cage and "presto" she was trained! She was a house bun who spent her days in an outside hutch or running free in mydaughter's room. She would return to the cage for the litter box when in the room.
FWIW, we used one of those corner litter boxes that attached to the wire and pine pellets for litter.

Same experience with all 4 of my rabbits. Never trained them they just seemed to know, same as all of our cats. I think they are incredibly neat and tidy by nature so just do it naturally. We just had 1 rabbit you had to clean it daily and add a tiny tiny amount of new litter otherwise she wouldn't use it. Have no idea what that was about.

[GoForAGallop]

Rabbits do tend to train themselves, like cats, but sometimes you have to encourage them a bit.

For example, I put the litter box in one corner of the cage, and the hay rack in the opposite corner. Bunny peed by the hay rack, not in the litter box. A quick bit of research told me that bunnies like to pee while they eat, so I just shoved the litter box over by the hay rack, and Voila! Litter trained bunny.

When she's out bouncing around my room, she'll go back to pee, but not always to poop. Luckily, bunny pills are no big deal to clean up, and I'm attributing most of it to the fact that she's an excited baby and sometimes just can't help herself.

[Twigster]

Having different/softer feeling bedding in the litter box as opposed to the rest of the cage will help too. Way back when I used to work at a pet store, we fed the bunnies their hay in their litterbox (big ones with high backs), food on one side, and they always ended up using the opposite corner to go to the bathroom.

The house rabbit society has good FAQs on litter box training rabbits. House Rabbit Society

[Couture TB]

I bought a product called Critter Litter, it is for rabbits and such and encourages them to go there, something about the sent. Then when he always peed there and usually pooped there I put in corncob stuff since it was cheaper. But my guy lives in a bunny mansion and he is a clean bunny. He has his litter box, the bottom of his cage is stone and the 2 levels have carpet on them.
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[Mallard]

Yup...my two barn bunnies also just trained themselves.

[Chall]

Mine was hutch raised on newspapers, when I got him ripped newspapers, lined a cardboard box with heavy plastic and he used it. Be warned, one day he waited till my Mom was in the kitchen with me, hopped smack into the middle of the kitchen and peed. His litter box hadn't been cleaned and he was protesting ( I was a kid then). He was quite deliberate about it.

[BeastieSlave]

Yes, our bun did prefer a clean litter box (the rest of us did too!). And GoForAGallop, its funny you mentioned that about peeing where they eat. Our bunny loved to sit in her litter box and eat her snacks!

[Tiffani B]

We had a lop eared bunny when I was a kid that had the run of the basement. He was litter trained, although we found pellets here and there sometimes.

He chewed the legs off of all my Barbies.

[equinelaundry]

Mine will drop pellets occasionally but easy to pick up. Should it happen when I'm not around a dog will take care of it. She has had a few pee accidents in the last couple months but she's almost 9 years old so no harm done since I have a steam cleaner. Of course it's always on the carpet and not tile or wood floor. Mine have all trained themselves to the litter box. I've used Yesterday's News Unscented for years as the litter.

[BestHorses]

We must have had bad bunny luck. When we got our two we read a book that talked about how easy they were to keep including training them to use a little box. Well, the first time we put the litter box in with them their digging instinct kicked in. They jumped in and proceeded to fling the litter all over our room. It was one of those laugh or cry moments. After we cleaned up all the little granules we decided a litter box was not such a great idea.

[starrunner]

Mine litterbox trained himself pretty quickly as well. Although, just like cats, if the litterbox wasn't clean enough, he'd find somewhere else to go.

I had a different litter for the box versus the rest of the cage to help him differentiate as a young bun bun.

[Guin]

I used wood stove pellets as litter. Works great.

[PNW AMTS Dealer]

My boy bunny only used the littler box about 50% of the time until I got him neutered, then he got MUCH better. The female I adopted from the humane society uses it good also, AS LONG AS THERE IS HAY IN THE BOX. They are so consistant now that they have cozy fleece beds and wicker mats in the cage and rarely mess anything. So nice, no cage to clean, just the litter box.

I use the wood pellets (dry den) in the box, then a layer of prairy mix hay. At one end I put their fancy timothy/orchard eating hay. Eating, sleeping and going potty....all in the same place makes a rabbit happy.