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Post by Corvidophile on Nov 24, 2021 20:34:10 GMT -5
Over the past month or so Winnipeg has started peeing in a very bad place, on my antique store find of a lifetime wool rug. I have no idea why he started this, it’s not in a corner and nit up against the wall. I keep picking him up when I see him switch into reverse and putting him in his litterbox, but sometimes I’m not fast enough. I scrub it every time he goes with vinegar and Dawn, but he persists.
Finally bought puppy pads to lay over the area for the first time last Sunday and they worked in an unusual way, like a cat walking on tinfoil he was really spooked by the texture and ran away to another spot (on the hard floor thankfully) whenever he stepped on them. I finally caught him about to pee one inch in front of the puppy pad yesterday and placed him on top of it just in time for him to let loose, and since then he’s been using them.
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Post by Charlie on Nov 25, 2021 23:08:03 GMT -5
He has never used a puppy pad before? It worked for a short time to discourage him from peeing there. lol Has he stopped peeing on the rug now?
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Post by unclejoe on Nov 26, 2021 19:24:31 GMT -5
puppy pads. they work 80% of the time for me. if the pad gets moved out of the corner, they still go in the corner. Sometimes they will use it 4-5 times, sometimes twice is too much. I've tried taping them in the corners, but I've found poop UNDER the pad. I think only tile or finished urethaned hardwood floors are safe from ferrets.
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Post by Corvidophile on Nov 26, 2021 20:40:51 GMT -5
No, he peed on the rug again this morning right in front of it! I moved him mid-pee to the pad to catch the bulk of it.
I don’t mind his accidents on the wooden floor that much because they’re easy to clean, I do mind when I have just put on fresh socks and step in it though.
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Post by unclejoe on Nov 26, 2021 22:13:57 GMT -5
No, he peed on the rug again this morning right in front of it! I moved him mid-pee to the pad to catch the bulk of it. I don’t mind his accidents on the wooden floor that much because they’re easy to clean, I do mind when I have just put on fresh socks and step in it though. yup |
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Post by Charlie on Nov 27, 2021 21:49:35 GMT -5
No, he peed on the rug again this morning right in front of it! I moved him mid-pee to the pad to catch the bulk of it. I don’t mind his accidents on the wooden floor that much because they’re easy to clean, I do mind when I have just put on fresh socks and step in it though. Yeah, I hear ya on that one!! LOL |
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Post by Corvidophile on Jan 1, 2022 9:17:09 GMT -5
I’ve given up on training him to go to the pads, now they’re just targets for me to place him when I see him looking for a place to go. As long as there’s at least one pee already on the pad he’ll stop and go there once I put him down. My new strategy is to time after meals when he’ll typically wake up and go, and just put him in the litterbox myself. He’ll go when his feet touch the litter. If he’s in the cage he’s still 100% accurate, but I’m doomed to keep scrubbing this rug from accidents. I think I’ll send it away to be hosed down and shampooed when he passes away so the next ferret has a clean slate not to keep this cycle going.
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Post by abbeytheferret6 on Jan 3, 2022 10:04:14 GMT -5
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Post by unclejoe on Jan 4, 2022 21:41:48 GMT -5
em r big. I want to ask how big is the rug, and since it is an antique, do you have a wall space where you could hang is as a fresco?
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Post by Corvidophile on Jan 5, 2022 19:42:03 GMT -5
It’s bigger than my walls, it’s ten by twelve feet. Takes up practically the whole room it’s in with a foot edge of spare hard floor around, which he USED to reserve his peeing and pooping on. He crept inwards.
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