POLL: Litter trained?

[Stan Man]

Is your hedgehog litter-trained?

[klitzig]

not by a long shot! we've given up on that particular task, not worth the hassle.

[ginakra]

Zoey was hard to train, it ook three months for her to *finally* be trusted to go in there without supervision :) But it was worth it!

[meihee]

I can not get Punky to go in a litter box. Rosie uses her religiously-well worth it

[urchin]

I gave up on my girls after about 5 months.

[CryingOnThInsid]

I never tried with Lilia - well - I did for like a day then figured she was already 1.5 years old, so she probably wouldn't use it anyway. :)

[mandi]

i had my hedgie almost fully litter trained - - - then i came home one day and he had a piece of cat litter stuck up his penis, i immediatly took the litter out of the cage and figured he could just go where ever he pleases, i don't mind.
but funny thing, hedgie will never go to the bathroom on me or running around the house, only in his cage or in the bathtub

[anemone]

I said 2 or more, none litter trained. when I got anemone I tried, it didnt work very well,plus I learned it wouldnt keep her from going on her wheel (which was really the only reason I wanted her trained). she just had four babies who we are going to wean soon; as you can guess, they are not litter trained. oh well, Im glad to hear other people have un trained hedgies.

[krandall]

We've only had our hedgie for a couple of weeks now, and she's only 10 weeks old, but "potty training" has been a non-issue so far. She started using one of the shelves in her cage as a potty the first night she was here, including peeing up there, which was really gross. (it trickled down the outside of the cage)

So I got a shallow plastic storage container that fit the shelf, and filled it with the same Carefresh bedding we had in the rest of the cage. I put another container on the floor of the cage in one corner where I once saw a little poop. Since then, she hasn't once gone outside of those two places, still mostly on the shelf.

Tonight she really surprised me. We had her out of the cage for a LONG time in her new "playpen", and she never went in there. When I put her back in her cage, she immediately ran to her litter pan and used it. It looks like she's got the right idea!

[trickynicky]

when i switched penelope from wood chips to vellux with a litter box i never thought it would work! she sometimes went in the litter box (only to poo, never to pee) but then sometimes she went any old place.
finally, all of a sudden for some reasonn (its been about 2 months or a bit more) there is rarely an accident in the cage! i wake her up, she eats a bit and then goes straight for her litter box! it rules! suddenly cleaning the vellux liners has gone from a pain (i was washing them so often) to something i dont even notice anymore - i made a few extras right before she was totally trained cuz i was washing them sooo much, now i do it once every week or less!). i guess patience did the trick. the only problem is when i let her out to run around she still poos on my carpet sometimes, i put the litter box on the floor but she totally ignores its existence unless its in her cage!