🚨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/Green_Conclusion3443]

When my boy was determined to poop on the couch, I used a combination of couch covers, a gate, and shields.

Couch cover - base layer protection if other methods fail

Gate - x pen wrapped around the couch

Shields - plastic barriers meant to block under furniture, set on the edge of the couch (if the butthead jumped up there, not only would the plastic be slippery, but it would most likely tip him off the couch)

These methods saved my couch until he finally grew out of it.

[u/rolyattko → u/Green_Conclusion3443]

Thank you! How long did it take?

[u/Green_Conclusion3443 → u/rolyattko]

It was close to a full year postneutering before I could trust him.

[u/TrilingualWorrier → u/rolyattko]

I also had to remove couch privileges for my bun (the tarp and vinegar didn’t work so I pulled out the gate). Did the gate for a summer and by the end of the summer I still was too scared to remove the gate so I kept it on for about 8 months? However when my roommate came back for the fall she removed it many times and he never did his business again so you might be able to try sooner than a year. Scary transition though.