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Post by RyanF on Aug 3, 2004 7:22:50 GMT -8
Does anyone have any good ideas for training your gerbils to goto the bathroom in one spot? It would help a lot. ;D
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Post by snugglesandcloud on Aug 3, 2004 7:29:36 GMT -8
Wish I could help ya Ryan. I tried to and never succeeded. I even bought a little liter box thing with gerbil liter. The box says that when you clean the cage, leave a little bit of the soiled bedding in the litter box and they will begin to only go there to do their thing. I tried that several times and didn't see any progress so I gave up. I leave the little liter box thing in there though, cause they like to sleep in it go figure. Good luck.
Kim
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Post by queenofthenile on Aug 3, 2004 7:31:35 GMT -8
Peter, the owner of this forum, used to use a sand bath. Apparently, his gerbils did most of their business in there.
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Post by RyanF on Aug 3, 2004 7:43:44 GMT -8
Yeah, I got one of those litter things, but they seem to sleep in it instead, lol. I give them sandbaths but I don't leave it in the cage. One wierd thing though. I have a plactic ledge that is for the water bottle. The gerbils climb up a tube to the ledge, then drink from the bottle. The thing is, they goto the bathroom A LOT up there, where there is no bedding. That makes for a messy spot.. But I can't put some kind of tray or anything, because they go right under the waer bottle!
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Post by andrea on Aug 3, 2004 10:41:11 GMT -8
Our decided the potty was a good chew toy and was destroyed in a night Our gerbs are like shredding machines unless its wooden
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Post by xofinha on Aug 3, 2004 16:00:28 GMT -8
I potty trained mine a week ago and I'm so happy with it I use a big bowl with some chin sand in it and they just started to use that! Their cage is so clean now!
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Post by veronic on Aug 4, 2004 4:22:03 GMT -8
I am using a ceramic little bowl with bird sand. worked from day one. when sand has just been changed they roll in it but then use it as toilet until I clean it and put some new sand as Peter said everyday or other day depending on the smell.
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Post by andrea on Aug 4, 2004 4:28:02 GMT -8
might have to try that again.. Unfortunatly I gave Piper and Iceman a bowl of sand at first and Piper seemed to think that it game for a laugh to pick it up in her teeth and throw it , gave her a bald nose which has grown back now. But it put me off trying it with any of the others, but maybe I will... Andrea
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Post by j on Aug 6, 2004 0:07:09 GMT -8
Use regular chinchilla sand or children's sand, not those "litter" crap things they sell. Mine have a container taped to the side of their tank, it's the only place they go. Only thing that is gross though is um.. they use it to bathe in as well. Ah well, stll works. Not like they have turds stuck to them or smell or anything.
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Post by sweetie on Aug 8, 2004 11:00:54 GMT -8
Wow, I think I might try this!!!! How convenient would that be! Do they even poop in the box at night when they are sleeping? The biggest mess in our houses are in the "bedrooms". I guess there are benefits to the plastic tubing cause I just clean them out and the poop is not in the room with the food.
J, You are too funny ;D Thanks fellow members I really needed the laugh today . I think every time I need a laugh, I'll read the pooh pooh patrol thread LOL.
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Post by j on Aug 12, 2004 20:51:49 GMT -8
lol lately I've been cleaning my sandbox/litter box out every other day. Gets dirty fast with 5 boys. They're peeing in it more than I thought. So it was starting to smell like amonia even after sifting it. I'm not getting anymore chinchilla sand, gonna stick with the childrens sand sicne it's much cheaper. I checked the bottom of their tank out, no turds anywhere! I'm probably not going to have to clean their tank out for a couple months. Sweetie - don't know how you can stand cleaning plastic tubes. I hated it. lol. Smelled fast, and they got smelly from peeing in it and then everyone walking through it.
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Post by sweetie on Aug 13, 2004 4:54:30 GMT -8
It's really not that bad. I just block off the opening with a blocker then wash dry and pop it back on. I is usually only in the circle tubes. I guse they had already been potty training them selves, I just never paid attention!!!!
I am having trouble with them pushing all the bedding near the water bottle and it leaks out on the bedding since the bedding pushes the ball into the water spout.
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Post by j on Aug 13, 2004 16:01:31 GMT -8
I am having trouble with them pushing all the bedding near the water bottle and it leaks out on the bedding since the bedding pushes the ball into the water spout. Only my boys do this. It drives me nuts. I've watched them, they do it on purpose trying to bury it. I moved the water bottle as high as it can go and put a wooden box thing underneath it ..with NO bedding on top at all. ;D
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