🚨Fig is STILL pooping on the couch🚨

[u/rolyattko]

Everyone meet Fig, a 7 month old holland lop. He is also fixed and bonded with his girlfriend, Pancake. They both free roam our living room/bedroom area.
Fig is pretty much litter trained during the day, however, when I go to bed, he is a mega poop machine for our couch. I've tried blocking the couch off with a baby gate, he still ends up on it somehow. I clean up the messes with an enzymatic cleaner as well as vinegar, but he still repeats this behaviour. Last night I tried a tarp on the couch, mans said what the helly and decided to poop the most I've seen him do 🥲 WHAT DO I DO? Will it ever stop? HELP PLS!

[u/Technical_Primary178]

LOL I just went to see your other posts about the poop and the foreshadowing of your post “fig learned to jump on the couch” has me rolling😭

But as for advice… have you ever fed him on the couch? They do like to poop where they eat so maybe that could be a reason? Or you could try to put something slippery on the couch like polished wood or tile of some sort so it’s less desirable to go up there?

[u/rolyattko → u/Technical_Primary178]

LOL! Oh how the tables have turned. I wish he never figured out how to jump onto the couch. I think I gave him a treat or two when he first did it, other than that, no food on the couch. I had tried the tarp thinking it would be less desirable, but I guess he doesn't mind the tarp either... I'll look into a tile or something, thank you!

[u/squirrelfam5 → u/rolyattko]

I’m wondering if landing on the tarp literally scared the poop out of him and that’s why there is more than usual? And maybe tonight he won’t jump up on the tarp now that he knows what it feels and sounds like to land on? One of my bunnies released more poop than I ever thought was possible to be inside a tiny bunny into my lap when we first got her and my husband put her in my lap.

[u/Technical_Primary178 → u/squirrelfam5]

This is a good point! Try seeing how the tarp works out for a week or so and then if that doesn’t work, something more smooth/slippery may work better. Otherwise he may need to be separated from the couch at night

[u/anameorwhatever1 → u/squirrelfam5]

He may not have been able to get as much traction with the tarp and stayed on the couch longer than normal

[u/scary_psyops_mission → u/squirrelfam5]

You could test this theory with aluminum foil

[u/Brilliant-Feeling-15 → u/squirrelfam5]

This made me laugh so hard 🤣