Toilet Training

[Bowie&Ludo]

I have bought my piggies those little corner toilets so I can hopefully fleece line their cages and run once they have the hang of using one.
My question is what is the best way to get them to use them?

 

[gizzy]

l have found that if you can peswade one to wee's and poops in the same spot in the cage the others often follow suite

 

[Critter]

Personally I have found that every pig I've had so far (that's 7) has simply decided that they prefer to do most of their wee's in trays with litter (I use paper-based bedding) and not many on their fleece. It's just something they naturally seem to prefer.
Poop however is a different matter. It's everywhere, but they do seem to have favourite spots. Penny especially likes to poo on her cosy beds, but apart from a congregation of them in there, the poos are pretty much everywhere.
That's fine, they just scoop up
I do find it good that they wee on the paper bedding, and hardly on the fleece.

One drawback I have found with their reluctance to wee on fleece is that at lap time I have had piggies hang their bottoms over the edge of my fleece lap pad and let fly with wee....

 

[Bowie&Ludo]

Brilliant thank you we shall give it a go

 

[Squidgypigs]

Not a lot of help but both Ned and his son Slincypig insist on peeing in their food bowls! None of the 11 girls do this just the two boars!

 

[Lady Kelly]

cross your fingers and pray I've tried a few things in the past to try and get them peeing in one easier to clean area but it's never worked, my lot seem to just go whereever they want

 

[madguinealady]

Peg fleece over the cage and put hay in litter trays and hay rack over the litter trays and it encourages them.Works great for me, juste havre poop to sweep up

 

[asia]

Not a lot of help but both Ned and his son Slincypig insist on peeing in their food bowls! None of the 11 girls do this just the two boars!

My Stevie does this...she poops right next to her food bowl...i was wondering if I moved the food bowl to a new spot , would she still poo in the same corner or ill she keep pooing near her food bowl.

 

[Keiko The Pig]

i use fleece blankets to line my cage, and made a DIY hay bag for my piggy, as hay feeders seem to get hay all over the outside of the cage due to being open on all sides. After a week of having my pig I realized he was using the hay bag as a litter box! I got him quite young so he fit right in the holes i cut for the hay to be accessible. He not only does all his pee in there but also all his poos! Rarely do i find one or two stray ones. Now i just rip up some newspaper and throw it in the bag and he continues to use it, even to the point where he wheeks in excitement when I go to empty it, which is quite simple. I just dump it into the garbage! I think he likes the seclusion the bag offers from prying eyes. If an open litter box doesn't work give this a shot, my little boar loves it, and when he gets bigger i can always just enlarge the openings or get a whole new bag going if needed. It also doesn't take up floor space on his cage really, he just pushes it out of his way whenever he feels like doing laps