Litter box training

[Beccadaboo]

I have a year and a half old lionhead. She is a female and her name is Aberdeen. She is partly litter box trained but I can't seem to get her to be fully trained. She goes to the bathroom the majority of the time in her litter box but still pees here and there and poops everywhere. Any suggestions on how I could get her to be fully trained? I have tried putting hay in the edge of her box but she doesn't eat the hay or seem to care that it is there. If I put any litter in her box she will also not pee there. I'm not sure what else to do but would love for my parents to enjoy her being in the house.

 

[Blue eyes]

Is she spayed? Spayed rabbits are more consistent with potty habits. In fact, fixed rabbits practically train themselves. She should be urinating 100% of the time in her box.

How do you have her box set up? How large is the box? What are you using for litter? Does she eat hay normally? (she should be eating her body size in hay every day) What is on the rest of the cage floor? Is she peeing outside the cage? How often is she let out of her cage?

 

[Beccadaboo]

She is not spayed yet but we do have plans to get her spayed this winter. She has a regular cat litter box with nothing in it otherwise she doesn't use it at all. She refuses to eat hay of any kind. I have tried and she just let's it sit there. She is free roam a good majority of the time and she would either pee on the lenolium in her cage or on the laminate flooring right outside her cage.

 

[hamsterdance]

What worked really well litter training my all of my rabbits is to fill their litterbox with a rabbit safe litter, my favorite are horse stall pellets or yesterday's news, and everytime they pee outside the box I wipe it up using toilet paper and stick the toilet paper under the litter in the box. Also any poo I sweep up and put into the box.
Box training can take some time and you have to be persistent! You plan to spay and that should help a ton as well

 

[stevesmum]

Odd that she doesn't eat hay. Has she always been like that? How is her appetite otherwise? Her poops? Where is she getting her fibre from I wonder.. Hay is the number one thing bunnies need to eat, as I'm sure you know because obvs you provide it. I 100% agree that spaying her will improve her litter box habits. My Cali, as evil as she is in her heart (still love her) is immaculate in her toileting habits. But this not eating hay thing might be a cause for concern...

 

[hamsterdance]

Have you tried different types of hay? While my buns do eat Timothy I cycle between a few different kinds; their favorites are orchard grass and oat hay. You could try offering other sorts of grass hay, just avoid the alfalfa