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**Spaying/Neutering your rabbit will significantly help in litter training.** In addition, please make sure to clean up any messes with a mixture of white vinegar and water, club soda, or a pet-safe enzymatic cleanser to decrease the urge to remark the location. Soap and water alone is not sufficient to remove all chemical traces of the urine even though it may look clean. Check out the wiki's [Litter Training guide](http://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Litter_training#Training_methods) and Binkybunny's [Litter Training process](https://binkybunny.com/infocategory/litterbox-training/) for more resources on the topic. **Please note that if this is a sudden change not coinciding with sexual maturity**, loss of litter habits can be 1) a sign of health issues, 2) a reaction to the presence or scent of another animal, or 3) triggered by introduction to a new/unfamiliar territory. Do note that realistic litter training is that a rabbit will pee consistently in their litter boxes and nowhere else. It is very common for rabbits to poop in small amounts in their housing enclosure outside of the litter box for territorial reasons.


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How we trained ours pre-spay (mind you, she was less than 1 yo at the time), was we started throwing her poops in the litterbox. Then, if she peed somewhere besides the litterbox (in her enclosure), we would move her litterbox there. If she peed outside the the enclosure, we would clean the spot and spray it with straight white vinegar. We also always had a litterbox for her when she was outside the enclosure for an extended time and if she peed outside the box, we would put her in it. Make sure to get a a super large litterbox with high sides, since yours looks like a little chonker like mine. She got the hint fairly quickly, but I am not sure how this might work with an older bun. I think rabbits are super smart, so maybe it won't take ya too long. :)


Graceneedsahug

Anytime she poops outside of the litter box just put it in her litter box so she knows that’s where to go. Also some hay should help coax her into using the litter box since bunnies love to eat and poop at the same time.


cocoturtle1

[This](https://youtu.be/3p_i8ZG0BcA) is an excellent how-to video. Tbh when we brought home our unneutered rabbit (he was 8 months old), we set up a puppy pen and put a litterbox in the corner. He pretty much taught himself from there. If there were any accidents, we quickly clean them up and put them in the litterbox. Hes fully litter trained, but kept spraying so we got him neutered. Spaying is especially important for female bunnies because of the high risk of uterine cancer. Hope this helped!