How to PERFECTLY litter train your rabbit *except you can't lol*
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2021
- In this video I talk about the secret to "how to perfectly litter train your rabbits": cleaning. That's it. That's the secret. Just clean. I talk about territorial pooping and how different bunnies have different litter training habits and how not all rabbits can be perfectly litter trained; even after they've been de-sexed.
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This made me smile :) It’s soooo hard to explain rabbit ownership to people, but they don’t understand. You don’t own a rabbit. A rabbit owns you.
So they are cats
Take care of your masters okay
For real
@@Quandaledingleberg No! Way smarter and friendlier than cats. They are more like dogs.
This is not what I want to hear. My two are 20 weeks and this is exactly how I feel and will not be how I live. If they can’t obey the rules they will be living outside.
“A good choice would be to add a little box to a place they pee and poop a lot.” My bed:🥲
There’s the spray you can get And it gets rid of sents. They might just do that because there trying to claim that area, and by using the spray it helps calm it down. I heard that could help
Same girl same
@@kaylacox1908 what’s the name of the pray? Need it asap 😂😂
Want your bed as there turf lol 😆
@@kaylacox1908 Bro you can’t just say that and proceed to not tell us what it is or where to get it 💀
"Accept your role as servants." Couldn't agree more. 🤣🤣🤣
lol finally seeing another rabbit owner pick up poop with their bare hands.
Lol my dad picks up my rabbits poop with his bare hands bruh
THANK YOU, SAME
Yess omg
same its dry and soap is five steps away I'm touching their litter lining ( more newspaper) every day anyways
Same I done using toilet paper what a waste
I love your set up. And I think you're doing a great job at showing realistically what it's like to own rabbits. I hate how people want to house pets but then want it to look like there isn't a pet living there. A pet isn't an accessory or only needs attention when you want to spend time with them. The happiness of the pet should be number one priority. And your home is an awesome rabbit living space!
Rabbit poop is actually a really good fertilizer for gardens and container plants! Some people sell it at farmers markets near me, so you literally could be making a profit from your rabbits. I use my rabbits dirty bedding (poop+hay) as a mulch for my garden and as a slow release fertilizer in my house plants. Besides them trying to eat everything, they’re a gardeners best friend 🥲
yes i did it i have 3 bunnies and thier poops manure i used it to fertilized my plants
My bunny came over next to me and pooped on the rug while I was watching this video! This is my first time owning a rabbit and I'm trying to get used to it cause generally I'm a clean freak at heart. This video helped a lot. Thank you!
HAHA its like your bun knew and was playin with you, cheeky xx
@@Katesque I have 7 rabbits. 5 are 100% free roam. All 5 are 100% litter trained. So this proves that what you have said in this video is wrong. Rabbits can be 100% litter trained.
@ellievictoria8402 sorry to correct you, but that just means your rabbits can be trained. There are a wide variety of rabbits out there and many different personalities
This video needs to be spread around the rabbit community more because there are A LOT of unrealistic expectations being set. Honestly, I wish I had seen this before I got my rabbits so that I knew what to expect at the beginning! So far you are in my top 2 of rabbit care UA-camrs! Thank you for being willing to open up and show the nitty gritty of what it is really like! Also, I like that you have more than 1 rabbit but you also don't have a ton of rabbits like some of the others, it makes a big difference to someone like me who has 2 rabbits (I feel like 1 rabbit is VERY different than 2 or 3). THANK YOU! ❤❤
My rabbit is free roam and 100% litter trained, I realised pretty quickly this is very unusual. She’s been like this since she was sterilised. I do think that if I’d get her another bunny friend this behaviour would change. Whenever I have people coming over I make sure to tell them not every bunny is like this, Chloé’s an exception 🐰 really enjoyed this video ❤️
My rabbit he isn't neutered yet although he will be this coming year! I got him from my cousin he was an outside rabbit, he is now free roamed in my room but he is clean which I'm surprised. He uses the litter box without litter trained, he does poop sometimes but not much. I'm hoping he will be 100% litter trained when he is neutered
What kind of rabbit do you have?
One rabbit is different, no territory issue...
Yes! One of my rabbits is perfectly litter trained but when his brother starts pooping around the house he does also 😭😭 I wish it was vise versa
My vet told me the same thing. My rabbit pees in the litter box and most of her poo is there too. The litter has an earthy smell. I change her litter every other day
This girl is so underrated!
My buns are not perfectly litter trained. I clean up the straggling poops, but they’re quiet good with peeing in the little box. Thank you for sharing the reality side of it and not portraying perfection... the only perfection are those little buns 💗
Oh that touched my heart: the only perfection are those little buns. Xx
Thanks a lot for this video! We just started free roaming our two bunnies (both spayed females) a few weeks ago, and I saw many videos that made me think all rabbits would use their litter boxes perfectly. Our bunnies always use their litter box for peeing, and mostly for pooping, but they ALSO sometimes poop in front of the litter box on their carpet. No matter how often I put the poops into their litter box, there were always some of these little balls laying in front of it in the morning. I thought I was doing something wrong and became kind of sad and frustrated about it. But thanks to your video, I now know that I am actually very lucky with their habits! :D Thank you Kat! :)
My bunny was perfectly trained and then PUBERTY HIT... oh, boy.
They sound much like toddlers, who mostly get it right but sometimes get distracted and wait too long and don't quite make it to the toilet.
@@TatianaPaolah when is rabbit puberty, what age?
I love the honesty in this video!!
I definitely found when I had 3 buns they would do far more territorial poops. It was like coming down to a poop minefield 😂💩
The lady I got my rabbit fom told me "it doen´t matter how good they are at using the litter box, they will change their behaviour according to the envrionment they live in" and she was right. I got her last bunny, because people didn´t want him as she warned them he was not so perfect at using his litter box. I was planning to free roam him, so it was kinda important, but I believed he was gonna be okay. He actually uses the litter box almost all the time. He does poop outside sometimes, but he is not neutered yet (appointment is schelduled) and even then, he is a good boy. Generally, he does not poop outside too often and he is not even destructive. Not cuddly, but very playful and active. Netherlands dwarft breed, so very tiny with big personality. Every rabbit is different and they sometimes just do their thing, my old rabbit, the french lop, was the festiest and most stubborn pet I ever had.
i also clean my buns when i wake up, i have a year old fixed boy and he just got fixed so he’s still a little hormonal but he always goes pee in the right spot, my oldest bun is also fixed and she’s always been perfect with her litter box from the get go- and my bonded pair are the messiest but it’s nothing i can’t clean with a five minute sweep in the morning. also it’s normal for buns to poop in little odd places while they run/sleep/ sit just bc of how they digest food, normally the poo is scent free and the pee is the issue (don’t even get me started on the smell of unfixed male bunny it is so bad)
you’re doing a great job of being transparent with your responsibilities which is needed for ppl that are planning on getting bunnies :)
We really become just a bunch of cleaners for our buns hahaha, I love showing it because people usually try to shy away from it but honestly it's simple, just clean! Oh man, you're so right, unneutered marking is a whole different story xx
My bunny just got fix a week and half. He pees in the litter box but he poops all around still, is it normal? I wonder when I will be able to free-roam him.
@@radadansupasavat9585 he might poop around until he’s had time for the hormones to fade, and remember bunnies digest quickly so they can’t control where the poo comes out- accidents will happen but i promise it becomes easier to control- i only sweep in the morning and right before bed to pick up my buns area and he doesn’t have poops far from his litter box- just keep an eye on your buns bathroom habits and you’ll know when you’re ready for him to run free :)
I'm so glad you mentioned the undesexed male rabbits pee smell. I bring my bunny home in a couple of weeks and he is not desexed. I was planning to see if I could book him into the vet on the day I pick him up. The person who has him now said he wouldn't need to be desexed unless we got a female bunny down the road. But after what I've read and heard I don't think that's right, for multiple reasons and I've just added stinky wee ro the list 😆. Is that true of all male undesexed rabbits?
@@Katesque mine is not neutered yet, he was so good with peeing in his littler, however poop everywhere but trust me I rather poop than pee 100 times, but I just wanna know if there really is a big difference once he’s fixed ?
Watched my friends rabbit throw poop everywhere. On stream. Was hilarious 😂
I love your honesty. It’s so helpful
Thank you for such a realistic video 👏🏼 People need to normalize that animals are messy and that's okay!
One of my 2 buns is very territorial of his pen area and leaves poops everywhere. He doesn't like it to be cleaned while he's in there... otherwise he'll attack the dustpan/broom. My other bun is mainly litter trained and seems to only leave a few poops here or there by accident. 🐇🐇 They both definitely got better when they were neutered!
Thank you for your honesty! Sometimes I feel like a bad bunny mom, but this helps me normalize things that I thought I was doing wrong. ♥️♥️
Best bunny care channel ever🖤
Thank you. This is the first honest video I see about the poo and pee.
I love how real you are about it ❤
The intro is so aesthetic I can’t 🤌😽
It is great that you are showing this. When I first got my bunnies, there were some major poop and pee wars before they got bonded. The wars went on for a couple of months, so it was a lot of work to take care of them.
Recently, we rearranged their cage and they started to pee outside the litter box in one spot. Thankfully that seems to have resolved.
Even now they still poop outside the litter box, but it is much, much better than before (less than 10 poops a day).
It is wonderful that you are sharing this. The litter habits are a big part of rabbit ownership (bunnies can have hundreds of poops a day) but the reality doesn't get shared enough.
Thanks for this honest and refreshing video. I just adopted a pair of bonded rabbits 3 days ago. They are spayed and litter box trained according to what the shelter said. I do find that they use their litterbox for the most part but also poop outside of their litter boxes and in other areas of the pen. It's not what I expected. Luckily now I have and hand vaccum I can use to help with that. Thanks for normalizing it. Found you through looking that issue up and I am now subscribed.
THIS VIDEO IS SO NEEDED
Honestly love your honesty lol . Lots of “rabbit UA-camrs “ aren’t
This was so nice to see rt, my older male was a literal perfect angel, until we got out second who is terrible with litter training so he would retaliate and mark. After about a year our first is back to almost angel status, the second not so much lol
hahaha I love how different they are, I've never seen a bun retaliate and mark xx
This!!! Our first bun was perfect, but our 2nd caused him to start pooping on our furniture
" I am not a bunny owner, my bunny owns me" hehe absolutely!! I also know that is from another video.. My bun totally owns me. 😊😊😊🥰🥰 Also, I am so glad to see that their area looks like that, mine is very similar with all the poops. Hehe. Thank you for sharing!
Omg I thought my bunny was the only sloppy one🤣 I thought it wasn’t normal and I could fix it. Also I love your set up, thanks for sharing this💕
So much love towards your rabbits, thats really cool.
Thank you so much haha they deserve it xx
Thank you for your honesty 💚
This video was so real I had to subscribe
Thank you for doing this video, my owners have accepted their role as my servants and I love them ❤
Thank you for being honest. It's appreciated x
Toodles never pooped or peed outside her box. She did kick some out when she jumps out. She was a small bun and I had two oversized boxes for her. Empty box every other day seems to be best. Nice set up. Your bunnies look happy.
Thank you for making this video, I always just thought there was something wrong with my bunny, it's nice to see that she's not alone and that there's nothing wrong with her
awh I'm glad, yeah my bunnies are very much like yours xx
Thanks for setting realistic expectations!
My handheld vacuum is the MVP. She helps me suck up all the poop pellets and fur that my bunny leaves behind. She pees in the box (and the one time she didn’t, she was sick), but leaves a few territorial poops under the bed so that we know that space is hers. Otherwise, she’s generally pretty good about her litter habits!
Your magpie Cookie is adorable! Our magpie will be coming home to us in a few weeks. :)
Bless you! Keeping it real!
Your bunnies are so cute!!!! 😍
New bunny owner here! This video is wonderful thank you.. it’s real life! And I think that’s great 😃
I personally have litter boxes in every corner so they have the option on where they wanna go , I think it I completely normal for bunnies to not be perfectly litter box trained.
Great and accurate information!👍
Appreciate the video! Thank you for making this and keeping it real
I try haha thank you for watching xx
LOVE THIS! I absolutely love the castle. I live in Gippsland and am definitely going to be getting one of these. I checked out his instagram, how cool are some of the set ups and toys.
Ugh I really love everything he makes, super nice guy too xx makes some awesome stuff
Thank you for making this realistic video! Been pretty clueless on how to litter train my bunnies since it simply doesn't´t seem to work, they´ve lived here for about 2 months for now and it was clear to me right from the start that I´m choosing free roaming. The problem is that even though they do pee mostly in the litter box, yet unlike my cat every now and then they suddenly pee elsewhere. Luckily for some reason they never pee on my bed, neither on the mattress (except occasionally on the one on "their" territory). Also, it´s exactly like you said in here also, the first thing I do in the morning is I clean up their mess (poop everywhere), but it´s a pretty easy and quick job, no problem with that. I´m more concerned about is having visitors, feels kind of awkward to be cleaning up this kind of mess while socialising. But it is what it is, and I´m proud to be a mum/servant for these sweet babies. They are more important to me than the idea of pleasing other people with a perfectly clean house. Having bunnies is a lifestyle and if it takes a little extra cleaning then we just have to deal with it. The bathroom door I keep closed so that there´s at least one place in the house that doesn't´t have to be cleaned everyday.
I have several outdoor dwarf sized bunnies. Had one get a severe case of flystrike over night at the beginning of summer. I brought her inside an nursed her back to health.
Over this time, we bonded closer than I expected, so shes now our indoor bunny lol. Problem is, shes been used to going where ever. It's been a long process with her but baby steps are happening. Every bunny has such a different personality, its truly amazing ✌❤
Do all bunnies owners own a Roomba? Haha 🤣 I also have one for my bunnies room. They are neutered boys, that are definitely bonded. Everyday after work, I have to pick up my bunnies room. They have their good days and their bad days. Happy to see the more realistic side of owning bunnies.
I love your rabbits and I love you.❤❤❤
This video got me subscribed immediately :)
Thank you for your honesty. You are definitely not gross. It’s a lot of work but I’m sure it’s worth it
Wow I feel so better now about my bunny thanks ❤
Great video with accurate depiction of the hierarchy of rabbits over hoomans! I had 2 until about 3 months ago. They were pretty good especially with not peeing outside the litter box, except for my one rabbit who pees on anything soft, which means I have tarps on my couch! Then I rescued a poor 7 yr old rabbit. They are not bonded with her.. She's not altered, so she stays in my bedroom with a baby gate between her and my other two who run the rest of the house. Since I got her, now pumpkin and Lily decided they must pee and poop around to solidify their ownership of everything! Especially near the baby gate. They pee and poop on one side, new rescue Peetie pees and poops on the other. Lol it's actually getting a bit better.. Touch wood!
But as you've said, you need to just be prepared to do random cleaning throughout the day to keep things fresh!!
Thanks for the video!
Thank you so much for this cute and realistic video. I thought I was losing my mind and everyone else Was doing some thing that I didn’t have the secret to pay generally he’s pretty good but yes his area is a river of Pee and poop outside of the litter box despite neutering....I have around him everywhere except the living room because there’s carpet there and he has been marking it since he moved in so I am restricting access and seeing if that works overtime but I will try putting a litter box where he pees and see if that helps!
I love my Bao Bao. This is true. I thought I was losing my mind but it’s just the nature of territorial bunnies…You’re place is adorable and I love your honesty. You’re not disgusting your a great bun-mom! And it takes a lot of heart and patience to love these guys. Don’t get a bunny unless you want to be its servant the rest of your life LOL. ❌⭕️🤙🏽🏝🙏🏻🤷♀️🥰✌🏽
Same here... I was starting to think I am a bad bunny mom.
Girl same not to mention the hay that comes out of the litter box everytime the rabbits hop out😂
LOL u spoke the truth about bunny , it’s not about cleaning after your bunnies all the times but how much we love our bunnies this sensor the hard work of cleaning after them cos each time we sees our adorable bunny it just don’t matters as long as bunny owners loves theirs . If a person gets tired of cleaning after their bunny probably deep down there’s lack of ❤
thanks for your honesty, I'm a new pet owner and various 'glamour bunny' videos made me feel like something was off with my bunnies for not getting ALL their poop into the litter box. I've found it interesting that they they're mostly really good but when changing things around (we've changed the location and size of their ex-pen twice), the following day there's poop eeeeverywhere :'D
I love this video. I recently got a bunny due to his previous Owners preferring a dog over him. He is "litter trained". I can tell you that YES he does pee in the litter box and poops. But he poops all around his play pen and i just literally give it a sweep about 1-2 times a day. I already know this is normal and i dont have to fix anything. I am still gaining his trust, but thanks to his HUGE food motivation its getting a lot easier lol
Thank you for being the one to admit that a person can't perfectly litter train a rabbit
Such a great video. Thanks for being honest.
Thank you so much for this video, mine are also kind if not litter trained and tbh I dont care its just a grass ball, I clean it up with a vacuum and easy cheesy
So glad I watch this video
Hey Kat thanks for the upload. It can be an individual thing. Some are very good and others not as diligent! Hope your doing okay during this latest lockdown. Please take care.
Yes, I've got 2. One was litter trained very quickly. The other does not care. Both are spayed. Just different personalities.
I totally appreciate your real honesty!!! I thought it was only my bunnies that are not perfectly litter trained even though I did everything to litter train them. Like you I have 1 that has very few accidents but the other 2 don't even try. 🙁 I guess I too will conform to being a servant to these cuties....
awh I'm so surprised that everyone else is experiencing the same as me, yes we shall serve and we shall serve them well haha xx
That rabbit area is sweet!
Just adopted a little 3 months rabbit!
Unfortunately he was kept in a cage but on the other hand he knows where to go poop and pee. He's with me for about 3 days and I only picked up around 10 poops and no pee ✨
I loved your video the true reality because I have a bunny and he is trained but poop is everywhere when I get up in the morning I feel so relax that it’s not only my rabbit they are different from each other’s so just clean clean all the time lol
Messy or not messy ur rabbit area is the cutest 😊
Thank you a lot! This video helped to reasure myself. We just got a little baby bun and he is the most territorial little shit 😂
Thanks for sharing! Its been two days since we recieved our little bunny. OML, I didn't know they poop so much! I wish I had seen your video earlier. All the videos I've seen, had litter trained bunnies.....or it looked like they did through camera edits 😆. Now I dont feel so stressed about not being able to litter train our 4week old bunny....i guess its still too young and its not neutered/spayed?.... he or she is our very first pet😊...so cute! Thanks again! Love your videos
Yes! Definitely still very young, so hoping it gets better for you because it did for me (even if it doesn't look like it haha they used to be a lot worse) xx
4 weeks old is far too young to have left their Mother. Rabbits shouldn't leave their Mother until they are 12 weeks old.
Omg I really like your Rabbitat set up, may I ask where did you get or bought the wood thingy you putted your rug on? I really liked it and I also want to put it in my rabbits play pen tysm! luv your vids sm
There is definently the scent of hay, food, and rabbit. If you have a dog then you have the scent of the dog and their food its normal. Definently agree I was typing this out as you said the same thing😅😅😅
My rabbit is not litter trained but for this little ray of sunshine,I will clean twice a day
So much truth!! Thank you 😊
Thank you for being so realistic about rabbit ownership! I'm curious about how much time you have to budget for bunny cleaning? I don't have a rabbit yet but I'm trying to research as much as I can before I commit.
Brought my bun home a few days ago and he’s adjusting super well. He keeps peeing on the couch when I’m not there so I’ve opted to put the litter box on the couch until he gets fixed. Once he gets it we can migrate the litter box to a more optimal place.
I swear that loops are the most unbothered breed of them all :D I worked in a bunny rescue and people coming in were usually very surprised that it smelled nice, usually with hay, with 30 to 120 bunnies in not a very big room. Well, cos we had volunteers clean it up daily (which took up to 6h). In the morning the smell was heavier :p Bunnies will do whatever they want and it's just a reality of heaving one (or few :D). There are sacrifices to be made but you can gain so much more than what you need to give up.
i just got a bunny. heheh. nice tutorials. hope i will be able to train mine
What a beautiful little castle for your bunnies ❤️ How often do you need to clean up their little poopsies in a space that size?
Every day! haha xx
I adopted Thurberi, so he was already litter trained when I got him. (He was living in foster.) He's not territorial at all, but sometimes still leaves little poops around, presumably as just accidents since rabbits have such active digestive systems. Honestly he's pretty good, though. He lives in his own little room that I have a large washable pee pad (it's more like a big absorbing blanket) over the carpet of. He leaves way more stray hairballs around than poop, I think. I guess I'm pretty lucky.
This is so true!!! The reality!! I have 5 indoor rabbits.
I must say, you're patient. I had two rabbits. One was 99% perfect and the other maybe 50%, but I have a baby who tried to eat the poop and I don't like that level of mess so I rehomed him. I personally don't agree that pets should be your 1 priority. They come after the people in the house, but they are important, but still animals and if they can't assimilate into being an indoor pet and others can, then they should be homed where that doesn't matter or where the owner doesn't care. I think k also the problem is having multiple bunnies, unless you bought them together as babies, from the same litter, at the same time.
I CAN'T STAND...
...how much I love Bunnies.
Oh wait. Yes I can.
I got my bunny at 11 weeks old and he already was using his littler box since the first day , I always say he’s like the bunny lottery
Your grey bunny looks just like my baby boy who died in November...I miss my Kakashi soooo much! D': I burried him under a tree in my parents garden and the tree has never bloomed this beautiful..
The other day our rabbit pepper died I miss him so much we also buried him in a tree. I love him! ❤️
@@user-zj4vz1dn5k I'm so sorry for your loss ❤ at least they will always be in our hearts..❤
@@marsil5755 thank you! ❤️
@@marsil5755 he has a brother called smudge I hope he will cope!
You are so beautiful! And I love your house! Q W E E N ✨👑
I have 2 bunbuns and they mostly poop in their littler box. There will be some stray pooples here and there sometimes on our rug, but really not that much. I also pick them op with my bare hands lol, it's great to see a UA-camr do that as well for a change xD.
I also own a robot vaccuum cleaner and I love it :p. It's cleaning my house as we speak xD.
I’m planning on getting a mini shop vac to keep near my cage to make cleaning super easy
This is literally like my rabbits. I have two messy creatures but love them more than anything. They’re both litter trained and neutered and pee only in litters but poop everywhere. I thought I made mistakes when litter training them but I see it’s probably just their personalities. Good to know I am not the only one who has to clean every morning 😅
The funnest thing that I've experienced so far is I got down on my rabbit's level down on the floor and she just kept hopping circles around me over and over she definitely had me laughing
Not bunny related.... but where are your slippers from?! They're so cute!!!!!!!
(but this video is great and I love the way you share the real experience of having buns vs expectations)
Did I get lucky with my bunny? Because I trained my bunny to poop and pee in their litter. Her cage is pretty big and at this point it’s just a huge litter box. She sleeps on my bedside table and sometimes on my bed. She started doing that a week after I got her. It’s so cute because when it’s time to go to bed, she gets on the bed and goes over the bedside table. She stays there the entire night and gives me company. I ended up making a ramp to make her go up and down. It’s fascinating. I’m glad my bunny is like this.
If they dont pee outside the litter box thats a win in itself.
My sisters old bunny looks like cookie but more orange brown colour for the most of the fur but same detail for face fur
8:36 lol
My bun Boober has perfect litter habits, meanwhile his partner Lulu poops outside the litter boxes!