Litter Training: Poop and Pee!

[shelby]

So I have two 2 month old boy Guinea pigs. Lighting and Peanut. I am new to all the stuff but also have learned alot about eating habits. I am wondering about how to train them to poop and pee in their litter (actually pine shavings) tray. Or is it normal for them to poop and pee all over the place? They are as bad as a baby!!! o Any tips or ideas would be appreciated!!!! Or is this just the way it is?

[Milkingit]

They will poop and pee where every they so choose.

My girls are pretty good, in their cage where their food, hay and water is they pee and poop mostly in there, but I will still find a few poo's around the rest of the cage mostly in the corners or along a wall.

[akstrohm]

Most pigs will pick a corner. Put the litter box there. Other than that, there's not much you can do.

[PiggieMommy]

Mine for some reason like makes a moat around his pigloo with his poos. I dont quite understand that heheh.

[pigsmakemesmile]

Piggies are nothing more than poo-making machines hehehe. I finally learned to put their litter pan where they spend a majority of their time...in the corners. You mentioned pine shavings. If you have pine shavings...check that it's kiln-dried.

[Beahbeah]

It helps to put the litterbox in the area where you will feed them, and if you can, putting the hay rack in the litterbox area can cut down on the mess too. In my experience, pigs spend a ton of time eating, and thus poop in their eating area more than anywear else.

[LilFamily]

Pee - put the litter box the corner they like to pee the most. If right now they are doing it all over the place then you have to create the happy corner for them ^^ 2 easy (? hehe) methods I have learnt from friends that actually work, depending on how you keep them :
(1) if you keep them in cage and just bring them out only for floor time then they must have their fav corner(s) to pee on in the cage, put the litter box there with a bit of tissue or paper soaking wet with their pee... they will go where they smell it! BUT if you cannot pinpoint which corner it is then.. clean the whole cage & every items in it "very very thoroughly", vinegar will help, pick one corner and put the litter box there with, again, tissue with peepee. They will learn.. hopefully ;-)

(2) if you let them run around in the room or even throughout the whole house then it will require a more drastic measure (haha). Well... if they have 1 or 2 fav spots in the house they like to pee then it's easy, you just put the litter box there. If not then you will have to keep them in a small to medium sized cage or small play pen (which will act as a litter box) with or without the litter box in it for approx 2 weeks. keep them in there 24/7. You will find that after the 2 weeks, they will recognise that the cage or the play pen is their rest room! They can run around all day and as soon as they want to pee, they will just hop right into the cage and do their business.

Poo - a different story. I have seen a few ppl being able to train their piggies where to poo. Very very few. I myself still don't know how to.


Hope this helps a bit GOOD LUCK!

[shelby]

Thanks Everyone!!!

[lilcavy]

I trained my guinea pig peanut but putting pieces of his poo and wet litter in it so he knew that's were he goes, but some pigs just won't take. It takes time.