Litter Training woes

Chins.. decided to start thread here cos nothing to do with sweet pea's grunting rabblit lol

sigh - i am having a tough time training my buns. The Mummy seems to have unlearnt all her training. She finally learnt how to go upstairs, and whenever we close our doors to her, or we are too busy to entertain her, she will pee outside the rooms or on the stairs. Inside the room, she will poo and pee as well. We are not sure whether she smells the scent of our first bunny who died about a year back and is aggressively marking territory.

I normally don't train the young ones cos i sell or give most of them away. Now that i am keeping one, i find it tough to train at first, cos there is only one cage and if i lock her in the cage, the other bunny will have no access to the litter tray and food and water. So now i am trying to train both of them together, since mummy is being totally mischievous. i lock them in their cages but allow them out for half an hour or so. The minute our backs are turned, or the minute they are let out, they will pee and poo.

Part of the problem is that they are used to roaming all over the house. They get so upset that the minute they are released, they show their displeasure by pooing and peeing. Yesterday we had some success. We allowed them out of their cages into a playpen area, and they behaved fairly well. This morning, they were back to littering again. Sigh!!