Advice on litter training?

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Hi. Can you guys give me any tips on litter training? Thanx:)
 
There's some tips and information on the internet on litter training. Especially on YouTube.
 
Guinea Pigs aren't really litter trainable like rabbits are as they go as and when they want but in the cage I find if I put cat litter trays filled with hay they tend to use them to wee in more then other areas of the cage, has helped no end with cleaning them out :)
 
I accidentally litter trained my boys by covering their hay hut! Ever since I threw a fleece over it they've really taken to it and spend most their time in there munching hay, snoozing and going to the toilet! I didn't purposefully try to train them though as I felt it would just be too much hard work and I would follow their lead instead.

(I should put in a disclaimer that the boys do run around their cage and get plenty of exercise as well as all the cosying in the hay hut!)
 
I have put trays under a bunk bed style c&c cube thing, they started using it straight away :)) They also run to use the trays when they are in the room.
 
Good luck with that! I tried litter training with those corner litter trays in their cage. They kept using them as beds to sleep in. I once watched my Peanut Butter waddle from one corner to the other dropping poops as he went along. The only urine that ended up in there is that which they normally exude when asleep anyway. So, I gave up. What to do with those corner litter tray thingies? I discovered they make lovely hay trays! They boys eat out of them, but don't do any of their business in them. Peanut Butter, who manages to kick poops everywhere including into the pellet bowls & outside the cage, does occasionally land one in the hay tray by accident.
 
Lilly said:
Good luck with that! I tried litter training with those corner litter trays in their cage. They kept using them as beds to sleep in. I once watched my Peanut Butter waddle from one corner to the other dropping poops as he went along. The only urine that ended up in there is that which they normally exude when asleep anyway. So, I gave up. What to do with those corner litter tray thingies? I discovered they make lovely hay trays! They boys eat out of them, but don't do any of their business in them. Peanut Butter, who manages to kick poops everywhere including into the pellet bowls & outside the cage, does occasionally land one in the hay tray by accident.
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Sounds like peanut butter is mishevious!
 
Mine poo and pee everywhere and then climb into the hay filled litter tray for a sleep, that is when they aren't stood beside the tray pooping while eating the hay.
 
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