Hello. New to the forum. Joined with a quick question.
I got my rabbit a couple of days ago - she's the first one I've ever had, and it seems to be doing well. Just one little issue.
We've got the toilet training down. She's a house rabbit, free to roam whenever I can supervise her. She has a toilet tray in the corner of her cage and fills it with pee and poo, not a problem there. She's not going to the toilet anywhere else, which is great. Only took a day to get her to that stage.
The problem I'm finding now is that this tray full of pee and poo is obviously very dirty, and she keeps stepping in it and getting her paws covered. Now, obviously that's not good for her and it's making me want to lock her in the cage more because I don't want her stepping in it and then straight onto the carpet.
Is this something I can do something about? I know that rabbits are very clean animals so I'm surprised that she's ok with just stepping in the pee, but she keeps doing it.
I have a proper litter tray coming in the mail in the next day or two, so I'm hoping that she'll start using that if I leave it in another part of the room so that it's not in her cage, and I can line it with hay to soak the pee up a bit more, but if she doesn't then I'm not sure what I can do. Shall I just put a towel in front of the cage, sort of like a mat for her feet to go on before she reaches the carpet?
I got my rabbit a couple of days ago - she's the first one I've ever had, and it seems to be doing well. Just one little issue.
We've got the toilet training down. She's a house rabbit, free to roam whenever I can supervise her. She has a toilet tray in the corner of her cage and fills it with pee and poo, not a problem there. She's not going to the toilet anywhere else, which is great. Only took a day to get her to that stage.
The problem I'm finding now is that this tray full of pee and poo is obviously very dirty, and she keeps stepping in it and getting her paws covered. Now, obviously that's not good for her and it's making me want to lock her in the cage more because I don't want her stepping in it and then straight onto the carpet.
Is this something I can do something about? I know that rabbits are very clean animals so I'm surprised that she's ok with just stepping in the pee, but she keeps doing it.
I have a proper litter tray coming in the mail in the next day or two, so I'm hoping that she'll start using that if I leave it in another part of the room so that it's not in her cage, and I can line it with hay to soak the pee up a bit more, but if she doesn't then I'm not sure what I can do. Shall I just put a towel in front of the cage, sort of like a mat for her feet to go on before she reaches the carpet?