Keeping the cosies clean? Can you train them to "go" a specific spot?

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hazeyg

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Just a daft question, see how so many people put in soft cuddly cosy beds and things in their cages do they change them daily, everything I put in seems to get urinated all over and I feel its unfair to leave it their, so my little boys are left with wooden houses that have no floors :(. And they much prefer snuggly homes and blankeys.
Is there a way to make a pig go in one spot or part of their cage so that I can give them some snuggly beds?
Hazel x
 
My piggies are quite good with their poops and wees, and do have a tray that I line with cardboard below their hay rack. Generally, they will go where they eat and drink.
However, they do tend to do it in their snuggly beds, probably because they fall asleep in them. I just put a "piglet pad" inside the beds to line them. I made them myself with fleece and a flannel inside-really easy and the flannel absorbs the urine, with the fleece remaining quite dry. I change the piglet pads every day, and the beds themselves get taken out and washed after about 4 days, sometimes longer-depends on whether or not Jeff sprays tomato juice and seeds up the side rolleyes
 
I have litter trays lined with hay in my cage and I find that because this is the only place that there is hay in the cage then my girls mostly go in those. They do poo in the cozies and sometimes pee, but this is largely kept to a minimum.
 
Ah excellent advice folks :) my boys have bed excel bedding and heeps of hay everywhere and they build their own tunnels and hidyholes, maybe I should keep it seperate, does it make a bid difference? My boys tend to urinate where they sleep for some reason, whether that be in their wooden houses or in amoungst the hay. Thinking of making an extension because they don't seem to do much mooching about these days,do you think that could be part of the problem?
 
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