I need ideas for a LARGE litter box!

[blondiesmommie]

Ok, Annabelle knows to use the box BUT she will sniff it, climb half way in and go... Outside the box. I'm currently using a good size storage bin, but still not big enenough, I cut a side off, and she just hangs her butt over and goes lol If the hay is reachable from the outside of the box, then she eats it and goes standing on the outside of the box UGH looked at storge bins at Lowes, and theyre all longggg, I need a big SQUARE one or SOMETHING! IDEAS?

 

[LakeCondo]

I wonder if, no matter how big you get, she'd still just get half-way into it; the wrong half. The trick sounds like you need to put hay into something she can't reach unless she's entirely in the box. How big is the litter box you have now & how much room do you have? Would this work? My thought would be that the hay needs to go into a cardboard box maybe 6-8" on each side & tall enough that from the hole you can cut in one side will be at the right level for her to get the hay. Weight the box with stones or something so she can't move it, then fill with hay & interleave the top flaps so she can't get the hay from the top.

 

[1357rabbitlover]

I had an old indoor rabbit cage that got given to me for free when my rabbit had babies. I use the base of that for my 3 of my rabbits to share as a litter box because they don't like using separate ones, they have to use the same one, lol.

 

[MiniLopHop]

Sophie has a big butt, no two ways about it. To get her all the way into the box I use a rectangular rubbermaid under the bed storage container. It is long enough for her to have to get all the way in to reach the hay at the far end. I then put the lid along the open edge to cut off her hay access from the side, so looking down it looks like an elongated U. It is in the corner so NIC fencing is on the other side. Her toy box holds up the lid side. It works well because it is wide enough it doesn't feel clausterphobic being closed in on three sides.

 

[SnowyShiloh]

It sounds like the problem may be cutting an entrance hole in the box! The sides on my buns' litter boxes are about 6 inches tall and my bunnies are between 2 1/2 and 4 pounds, assorted breeds. They all get in and out of the box just fine and the side is way too high for them to pee over. Dish pans like this work great: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004GXB6LO/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 That's actually the exact one they use. I've found them at multiple stores in my small town. Love 'em! Sturdy, big, high sides, inexpensive...

 

[Nancy McClelland]

Spike used to do almost the same thing so I took a two piece apple box and cut a hole in the front and put a normal cat pan inside--it was his fortress of solitude and he never had his hind quarters hanging out.