Is there a way to potty train my pigs?

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Graceeiram

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Hello! I’ve got two guinea pigs (Appa, 11 months and Momo, 5 months) that I keep in a handmade cage (I put doggy training pads on the floor and then add bedding on top). A vet recently informed me that guinea pigs usually have a specific area where they go potty but my experience is that both my little ones are like hurricanes. They go all over the cage! I suspect this might be because I put bedding all over the cage, but I’m afraid that if I try to change their setting now to have a separate potty section, they might still do their business everywhere. Does anyone have any advice for this?
 
I find piggies like to eat and poop in the same place. I used a plastic corner hay tray, filled it with hay and put their feeding bowl right next to it....what do you know...it worked.
 
Corner hay trays are great and receive most of the pee and poop- you could put a few poops in the tray to give them the idea! But they'll probably still poop everywhere, just more in the hay trays. We have Rosewood corner rabbit litter trays for hay/aspirational toilets, they're really good and easy to clean out daily- only trouble is our fluffiest piggy thinks it a bed and sleeps in the wee and poops...
 
The trick is to put a litter tray where they pee most. They will probably never be totally potty trained, and you'll be very lucky if they stick to one place for pooping. One of my groups are pretty good, my pair wee everywhere except where I've put their tray. Just depends on how fastidious your piggies are. Good luck x
 
Well, I use fleece in my pen. And I have a white little bin they go %70 of their potty in, its a corner litterbox, so I'd recommend that! They don't pee in the middle of their fleece, just some poops I find when I lift their igloos up.
 
hi ive had many piggies over the years and tryed many beddings to, i didnt own any for a few years amd then 6 months ago got my little dug now have 2 girls aswel, i used to make and sell all piggie fleece items so my plan was to make cage liners again but ive found with 1 layer of fleece polar fleece tho and then puppy pads underneather worls sooooo much better for me and also i put a little basket in the cage and fill it with hay and my girls use that as there toilet area after 3 days when i clean out there is probably 3 wee marks on the puppy pads over 3 levels, they do poop in there but not all the time i do poop clean about 3 times a day but i put them in the little basket then fully
clean the tray evening and morning works great for me :) no smell either its quite amazing lol xx
 
Graceeiram said:
Hello! I’ve got two guinea pigs (Appa, 11 months and Momo, 5 months) that I keep in a handmade cage (I put doggy training pads on the floor and then add bedding on top). A vet recently informed me that guinea pigs usually have a specific area where they go potty but my experience is that both my little ones are like hurricanes. They go all over the cage! I suspect this might be because I put bedding all over the cage, but I’m afraid that if I try to change their setting now to have a separate potty section, they might still do their business everywhere. Does anyone have any advice for this?
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Both my Finn and Lara go to the bathroom in their hay trays. I put Carefresh bedding on the bottom of the hay tray and set Oxbow hay on top. This makes cleaning their cages very easy as I empty their hay tray and wash it often, which then minimizes odor in their cages.
Mine are indoor piggies and I use fleece bedding in their cages. I hand wash their fleece beddings, which is how I know that they don't pee much on their fleece bedding, they use their hay trays as their bathrooms.
My Finn and Lara live in seperate cages for obvious reason but close enough to see and hear each other and this has worked for us.
 
Ugh, I couldn't get mine to do that. Not even with the hay feeder trick. They just go anywhere. (- I'm lucky enough Oreo doesn't pee out of the cage; he nibbles my finger to inform me he needs to go, so I'm glad enough.)

One thing I've noticed, though, especially now that they are separated, is that Shoyu poops mostly (like 80%) around the water bowl. It doesn't matter if I put it somewhere else, he just moves along.
 
Mine usually stick to their cage and hay tray to poo and pee, so their run requires minimal sweeping, this isn’t something I’ve taught though, they’ve just always done it...
 
My girls are corner poopers.

If there's a corner it has to have poop init.

I put in a cats litter tray with hay and a puppy pad at the bottom. It's seems to reduce on the wee at least
 
My skinny pigs mainly wee and poo in their loft which is where the hay tray is. My trio of haired pigs just do it everywhere. I do wonder if this may be because the trio are all rescue piggies and have come from homes that where not kept clean.
 
My boy used to have a very specific corner of the cage for wees and poos, mucking out was so easy! Then he went in with his 3x lady friends, who are much less house proud, and he picked up their bad habits :-(
 
my water feeder leaks so i put a bowl underneath it, and my pig loves peeing and pooping in the bowl. kinda gross, but i guess it means i dont have to sort as much bedding
 
I have 5 piggies and they aren't house proud (hutch or run proud) and just wee and poop EVERYWHERE!
 
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