toyabrooke
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I have a 2 and--bit year old Netherland Dwarf named Horatio. We have had him for over two years. He is an inside bunny, fixed, and until now, was perfectly toilet trained.
When we first got him, I did everything by the book - started with a small space and slowly made it bigger, only had him out for a few hours a day etc. for him to learn the new environment and also to be toilet trained well.
1 week ago though, we made a big road trip interstate to move to our new home of Sydney! He loves our new house, although he did have to learn how to walk on floor boards rather than carpet! (they are not glossed so it is very easy for him). Along with moving, I also had to get him a smaller cage as his massive 3 level hutch was not going to fit in the car or the town house! I let him get used to that new house though for a week before we moved, and he loved it and was using the toilet fairly well in it before we left (sometimes went in other parts of the cage but not often).
NOW we are in Sydney and he is not doing that great with his toilet. He uses it sometimes, and then does a random wee next to his house! He got some on the certain which I didn't realise until a few days later (after he was weeing there once a day), so I washed it and now the weeing there has stopped but he will wee everywhere BUT his toilet in his house. I even made the toilet bigger (it was just a corner one and now it is a big cat one lined with puppy pads). Today though he weed on the couch and that was my last straw!!!!! I put him straight in his house and I don't know when I will let him out!!!!
He has NEVER done this before - he was so perfect with toilet training at his last home I just don't even know what to do!
Should I start from scratch again? Only let him out when I am home and can watch him? Is he just doing this because it is a new place and he is getting used to it? PLEASE HELP!
I have a 2 and--bit year old Netherland Dwarf named Horatio. We have had him for over two years. He is an inside bunny, fixed, and until now, was perfectly toilet trained.
When we first got him, I did everything by the book - started with a small space and slowly made it bigger, only had him out for a few hours a day etc. for him to learn the new environment and also to be toilet trained well.
1 week ago though, we made a big road trip interstate to move to our new home of Sydney! He loves our new house, although he did have to learn how to walk on floor boards rather than carpet! (they are not glossed so it is very easy for him). Along with moving, I also had to get him a smaller cage as his massive 3 level hutch was not going to fit in the car or the town house! I let him get used to that new house though for a week before we moved, and he loved it and was using the toilet fairly well in it before we left (sometimes went in other parts of the cage but not often).
NOW we are in Sydney and he is not doing that great with his toilet. He uses it sometimes, and then does a random wee next to his house! He got some on the certain which I didn't realise until a few days later (after he was weeing there once a day), so I washed it and now the weeing there has stopped but he will wee everywhere BUT his toilet in his house. I even made the toilet bigger (it was just a corner one and now it is a big cat one lined with puppy pads). Today though he weed on the couch and that was my last straw!!!!! I put him straight in his house and I don't know when I will let him out!!!!
He has NEVER done this before - he was so perfect with toilet training at his last home I just don't even know what to do!
Should I start from scratch again? Only let him out when I am home and can watch him? Is he just doing this because it is a new place and he is getting used to it? PLEASE HELP!