Corner toilet for small animal cages, 36 × 21 × 30/30 cm

I bought this for our two young rabbits who are currently living indoors in my study till the weather warms up. I put a sprinkling of sawdust in it and they started using it almost as soon as I put it in their indoor hutch. It is a high quality item and is sturdy enough so as not to break when you lift it but is flexible enough so that you can easily empty the waste when you need to. The high sides at the back mean that it catches all what our bunnies deposit. Clearly who ever designed it has a lot of experience keeping small animals. For some reason the rabbits have not chewed it to bits which is what they do to most things we put in the hutch. It is a reasonable size so we only need to empty it every couple of days (that is with two large rabbits) Using this has resulted in our hutch being a lot cleaner and much less smelly. Great price and quickly delivered.

We bought a pet rabbit a couple of months ago, and the one thing that shocked me was the sheer volume of poop that the creature produces! Rabbits are basically poop machines! When I first had the rabbit, I was under the delusion that I would be able to clean it out once a week, but soon realised that I had to do this task every few days. The crunch came, after a particularly busy week, when I had been very busy and when I came to clean out bunny, I found some small maggots in the corner of the hutch. This really freaked me out, because rabbits can get a disease called flystrike, which is basically caused by maggots crawling their way up inside the rabbit and eating it alive from the inside. Not pleasant!

I checked the bunny out, and luckily she was fine, but this showed me the importance of keeping the hutch fastidiously clean. I had read quite a bit on the internet about how people house train their rabbits by teaching them to use a litter tray, and whilst our rabbit is kept outside, I felt it would be worthwhile investing in such a product as I would be able to empty it out daily and replace the soiled bedding with new stuff without having to clean out the whole hutch every day.

Rabbits are very clean animals and will use the same corner of the hutch to poo and wee. This makes them very easy to litter train. I bought the corner litter tray from Amazon for just under £4. It was quite a lot bigger than I expected and the corners were quite high. It reminded me of a plastic cutlery drainer that you use when washing up, except obviously, it had no drainage holes! The back of the tray has two hooks for fixing it firmly to the side of the hutch, and also has a piece of covered wire on the back that you could use to attatch it to bars if your rabbit was in a cage or a run, but I didn't need it, so removed it quite easily.

I placed the tray in the corner of the hutch where the rabbit does it's poo. I put a little bit of sawdust in the tray for absorbency, as I didn't think the rabbit would be inclined to go on the bare plastic. The rabbit took to it straight away, and acted like nothing had changed. I was really relieved that the litter training process had been so easy, as I had contemplated putting a little soiled sawdust into the tray to give her the idea, but she got the idea straight away.

The rabbit hasn't tried to move the tray, despite the fact that it is not fastened to anything. This surprised me, as she is quite curious. Every morning, I simply empty out the used tray into the compost heap and top it up with fresh sawdust. The plastic tray is easily washed out, or can be sprayed with the special disinfectant that you can buy for animal cages. I can then give the hutch a thorough cleanout and disinfect it once a week. This is much better, and also reduces the staining that you can get from rabbit urine, which can leave a creamy calcium deposit on the floor of the hutch.

The corner litter tray is a brilliant and simple idea, and I would recommend it to all rabbit owners, as no rabbit wants to spend the day sitting in it's own poo. It keeps the hutch fresh and clean, reduces the risk of disease and illness and reduces the owners workload. Smiles all round!

This product was late in reaching me , to the point i emailed the company 2 day's before it eventually arrived. However on saying that the product itself is very good.