Help with old appartment

[Cinibunny]

I just moved in with my husband from the US to Austria Europe i have a Holand Lop at my house in the US (currently my mother is taking care of him) and i would like to adopt a bunny over here as well. Theres several issues i was wondering if anyone had any ideas i could actually solve this. We cant have the bunny at all urinate on the apartment floors or wall for these reasons.

1. The floors in the apartment are all wood or a fake wood flooring that is easily damaged by urine (My husbands cat ruined a bit of the flooring in the kitchen from urinating on it now it has a buldge on it and it would do the same on any flooring throughout the apartment. )

2. Theres lead inside the walls if the bunny urinates on the wall it will cause a toxic gas to form.

I want the bunny to live in the apartment with me and my husband we have a lush backyard that he can roam and play in its just im not sure if you can compleetly potty train a rabbit since my lop wasnt fully pottied trained (I adopted an older bunny who wasnt nutered) and its esental to have him potty trained to live in this apartment. If anyone has any tips on how to make this work or if its possible to make them compleetly pottied train (urinating) in their litter box let me know. Im really out of ideas.


Thanks so much!

 

[Bville]

Since the rabbit will have the backyard to run around in, maybe for the apartment you could keep it confined to an exercise pen with some kind of waterproof floor like a sheet of linoleum or a tarp. As far as litter training, getting a rabbit who is neutered will help.

 

[Cinibunny]

Since the rabbit will have the backyard to run around in, maybe for the apartment you could keep it confined to an exercise pen with some kind of waterproof floor like a sheet of linoleum or a tarp. As far as litter training, getting a rabbit who is neutered will help.

Thanks for the tip! I talked to my husband about it and he thought it was a great idea! i have a question though can bunnys be fully pottied train to only urinate in their boxes once they are nutered?

Thanks once again for replying!

 

[Bville]

I have three rabbits who are all litter trained to pee in their boxes. Fred has only had one pee accident since being trained, except for the time I tried using a smaller litter box and he peed over the edge. He and Pepper seem to knock a few poops out of their boxes when they hop out, but Smokey's litter habits have always been perfect. I usually only find one or two stray poops out of his litter box per day. :litterhealthy:

 

[PaGal]

I have three buns who are litter trained. They will drop poos outside of their litter box but never pee outside of it except one of the girls will but only in the cage and I don't think she would do that if she was spayed.

We have laminate wood floors in some rooms of our home which is the fake hard wood. They do bubble if liquid sits on the floor for a while. If it is quickly cleaned up then it will not bubble.

Your best bet is to get a rabbit that is spayed/neutered or have it done soon after getting it and then properly litter training the bun.

 

[Cinibunny]

I have three rabbits who are all litter trained to pee in their boxes. Fred has only had one pee accident since being trained, except for the time I tried using a smaller litter box and he peed over the edge. He and Pepper seem to knock a few poops out of their boxes when they hop out, but Smokey's litter habits have always been perfect. I usually only find one or two stray poops out of his litter box per day. :litterhealthy:

Do you use corner litter boxes or the flat cat boxes? From my experiance with the my rescue bunny i have at home in the US he loved peeing over the side of the box so we had to get a corner one for him. Also thanks for the tip my first bunny was already litter trained but would pee outside his litter box im guessing it was for marking his teritory so i never had the option to train a bun.

Thanks :carrot

 

[Cinibunny]

I have three buns who are litter trained. They will drop poos outside of their litter box but never pee outside of it except one of the girls will but only in the cage and I don't think she would do that if she was spayed.

We have laminate wood floors in some rooms of our home which is the fake hard wood. They do bubble if liquid sits on the floor for a while. If it is quickly cleaned up then it will not bubble.

Your best bet is to get a rabbit that is spayed/neutered or have it done soon after getting it and then properly litter training the bun.

Thanks for the information my first bunny was already suposably pottied train when i got him so i never had a young bun yet. I dont mind the poo drops thats not a big deal for me since its easy to clean up and doesnt harm anything mostly worried about the him or her peeing. Thankfully i went to a pet shop here in Austria yesterday and they require all pets in the petshop nutered and healthy (i wish they had these laws in the US) so if i adopt one there he will be fixed up and ready to go.

Thanks once again! :dutch

 

[Bville]

Do you use corner litter boxes or the flat cat boxes? From my experiance with the my rescue bunny i have at home in the US he loved peeing over the side of the box so we had to get a corner one for him. Also thanks for the tip my first bunny was already litter trained but would pee outside his litter box im guessing it was for marking his teritory so i never had the option to train a bun.

Thanks :carrot

Two of my rabbits, small 3 lb boys, use large corner litter boxes. My bigger mini lop who is 5 lbs uses a dish pan with a wooden frame around it that we built because she kept tipping it over. I should add they are all neutered/spayed. I had my boys litter trained before they were neutered and their litter habits got even better after the neutering (no more territorial poops).

 

[Cinibunny]

Two of my rabbits, small 3 lb boys, use large corner litter boxes. My bigger mini lop who is 5 lbs uses a dish pan with a wooden frame around it that we built because she kept tipping it over. I should add they are all neutered/spayed. I had my boys litter trained before they were neutered and their litter habits got even better after the neutering (no more territorial poops).

Thanks for the info!!! i appreciate the photos as well i really like the wood box setup seems like a nice solution! We will be getting the bun in a couple weeks im really excited to have him again ill be getting a corner pan for him for starters i also saw the setup where its just newspaper and hay i dont know how well that works out.