is it too late to potty train my guineas?

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My ladies are nearly 2 years old now. When I got them, there was no reason to potty train them and I was more focussed on making them comfortable in my home than trying to get them trained.

Over the last 2 years I've allowed them more and more space and they now wander around my room most of the time. I currently live in a room with a wooden floor, so it's no real problem cleaning up their wee and poops.
However, I'm going to move house in a few months and I was wondering if there is a way for me to get them house trained, so that if I get a new place with carpet, they won't completely ruin it.

If any of you have advice on whether it's any use/how to house train my ladies, I'd be glad to hear it :)
 
I love the fact that my boy is litter trained. He still has the occasional poop outside his box but all his peeing is done in the box. It was SO easy to train him it seriously took me like a week. When I first started I got on here and asked for some advice and I got two VERY helpful tips. 1. Put a bit of hay in the litter pan because eating will make them have to go and they'll already be in the spot to do it. 2. Put a water bottle in/above the litter pan as long as the spout is in it so that it will also make them have to go. While I was doing this I also scooped up their poos and put them into the litter box so that only the litter box smelled like the potty. Then I would clean up his pee spots and put them in there too... If you find a puddle soak it up and then wipe it on the back of the litter box, it sounds gross but it's all about the smell when you're training them. It's so worth it though I would definitely give it a try. Good luck with your girls :)
 
Mine are litter trained in the sense that they will go back in the cage to go to the bathroom if they have to go during free time. However, the cage is a free-for-all- there is no one specific place they use in the cage. I didn't really train them to do this... the dominant pig seemed to figure out by herself and as far as I can tell the other two learned it from her.
 
it's quite hard to toilet trian guinea pig's i find, i have had guinea pigs for years and never managed itmallethead, but i managed quite easily with a rabbit. piggies tend to poo in their beds and everywhere unlike a lot of animals, so you can give it a go, but i wouldn't get your hopes up ;)
 
You probably can but it might just be harder. What's your method for potty training them? Have you put all their poops and wees in the litter tray as I hear that sometimes helps.
 
I've not yet started potty training them. I'm thinking of starting the process once I've finished my dissertations, when I have more time to actively train them.
So any tips or tricks are very welcome!
 
I am quite interested in this as I have just started having the C and C cage and it is gross with all the poos everywhere!

I will make a start by putting their poos back in the cage. I don't really mind the weeing as much but when they kick their poos out and stand on them yuck!!

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I don't find that you can really potty train piggies. I just think that you can encourage them to poop in one place by giving them litter trays filled with hay.
 
Amazingly, I think just replacing their sawdust bedding with fleece has stopped 90% of the going to the toilet outside of the hutch.
I think maybe the fact that the sawdust used to go everywhere made them think they could go everywhere. Now they only do occasional poops and their weeing outside of the cage is pretty much finished!
Whenever they do wee/poo on the floor I wipe it up and put it back in the cage. I think it may be working!
 
Usually this animal don not show this shy and this behavior problem but if * get it from a small age and now you think that there is a behavior problem or shyness problem then you must go to trainer or a doctor for this immediately.
 
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