Someone is a slob!

[Caroline]

One of my cages is always clean, the other.... OH BOY! I just cleaned the cages yesterday and already there is pee and poop all over the place including on the floor outside the cage. Somehow it even gets under the cage. I am suspicious that it may even be affecting my allergies and the room stinks. My other cage still looks like it was just cleaned. I have two chins per cage and I am wondering if I should separate them for a day or two to see if it is one, both or a combined effort?

 

[Brittany]

One of my cages is always clean, the other.... OH BOY! I just cleaned the cages yesterday and already there is pee and poop all over the place including on the floor outside the cage. Somehow it even gets under the cage. I am suspicious that it may even be affecting my allergies and the room stinks. My other cage still looks like it was just cleaned. I have two chins per cage and I am wondering if I should separate them for a day or two to see if it is one, both or a combined effort?

Honestly, your clean chins are the ones who sound out of character to me. You're lucky they're so neat. Mine aren't potty trained, they pee anywhere on their fleece and sometimes on the wood shelves. I vacuum 1 - 2 times a day and I still find poop around and under the cages. I'm sorry but there's nothing you can do to change their behavior. Chins are chins. I think one of our members used to have a signature that put it best, "What do chins do? Chins poo." or something like that.

 

[Twilight Chinchillas]

I have to agree with Brittany. Some chins are really bad at peeing on their shelves etc. Even sitting where they pee and getting stained! Mine are all slobs just about. I sweep the chin room at least 4-5 times. I'm very OCD, but it's what they do. A healthy chin is one that has poo everywhere! Maybe stretch a piece of fleece behind the cage?

 

[SactoChinMom]

I had a chin that liked to fight and he was causing everyone else to pee everywhere. I was very fortunate to be able to rehome him with an experienced chin person who appreciated his very friendly personality and I didn't have to worry about fighting any more and no more "pee wars."

I swear, I get poop everywhere even while I'm vacuuming. It's never 100% spotless in my chin room. I remember down on the floor vacuuming under a cage one time and I got hit on the neck with a poo that was being thrown from inside a cage at me.

My most challenging cleaning chore is having to move all the cardboards that are protecting the baseboard because it seems like they collect the most poos everyday.

Are yours girls or boys?

 

[Caroline]

They are a bonded pair and do not have any contention with each other. But the one is a sprayer.

 

[Twilight Chinchillas]

Do you use pine or fleece for the floor? I personally use pine, but wondering if it would cut down on the smell if you use fleece?

 

[Caroline]

I use fleece.

 

[Caroline]

Will make some bumpers to put on the side of the cages to see if that keeps the poo and pee from getting all over.

 

[mishellyshel]

if the bumpers do not work, i have metal pans in my cages that cut out some of the mess from their hay & litter pan. i also have one boy who doesnt always make the litter pan & it gets a bit on the floor.

as for litter pans in general i have noticed that in the beginning a lot of my chins did not use them but as time goes on it seems they use them more & more. i have a few that use them exclusively for urinating and others use them to lay in or play in. i have found that if i lay an extra smaller piece of fleece in some of their cages that in stead of changing the litter box, i can change that smaller piece of fleece and that does cut down on the odor.

separating them to find the "culprit" serves no purpose....they will still continue to do what they do. thats what chins do.

 

[ticklechin]

Its the neat chins cage I would worry about, the more tore up at night the better IMO!