Learn from an exotic animal health technician and learn how to set up bedding for a pet guinea pig in this free online video. Expert: Sarah Tingle Contact: www.extracareanimalhospital.net Bio: Sarah Tingle is a resident exotic animal health technician specializing in dog health care. Filmmaker: Hiu Yau
@lynnandian I have a feeling you didnt use fleece correctly then. I’ve been using fleece for over 6 months and have had no problem with any sort of foreign bodies since I began its use.
@GoldZap your right! Not all hay is good! Actually straw hay is not really hay, is bad as bedding and as guinea pigs food. For bedding I use Cubetto Wood from Versele-Laga, it’s compressed wood small “logs”, they are very good but a little bit expensive. For hay, as food, I give them Mountain Hay also from Versele-Laga, it’s the best I can find where I live!
no bleach omg! no detergents… they are toxic, u can use vinegar and after clean with water
@filcon Careful when tossing around ‘hay’ as a bedding. If there’s a pile of straw hay, and the pigs runs into it, the eye is about hey level and is easily stabbed by these harsh stalks. Specifiy soft hay next time.
Toxic and Pine alike give off fumes. Aspen is safe to use.
I never used dish soap. Didn’t seem like a good idea, hard to scrub off in my opinion.
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@lilbeatch no. my hamster goes through one big bag of care fresh in a month and a half. you are supposed to clean out soiled stuff and replace every day and a full cleaning every week. plus both guinea pigs and hamsters are supposed to have 1-3 inches of bedding
yeh i hate when people dont seem to realise theres a difference! sawdust should be illegal to sell for animals! you open the bag and its like POOFT in your face!
it started to sprout mushrooms? um no i think you were high..
yeh but hamsters are tiny so bedding last them ages! bigger animals have bigger cages so they need more bedding to cover it plus they poop more
not really you need to mush it up and put it through a blender n shit then make it into little blobs then dry it all out and to do that with stuff you have at home would make a tiny amount at a time and it takes aaaaages.
i tried it when i was out of bedding and had no money and it turned out pretty cool but just wasnt worth the effort
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The yellow/orange stains are deposits of insoluble basic compounds present in urine, so washing only with water will not work. You can scratch the stains or/and, since the compounds are basic, you can use a weak acid solution. I use vinegar. You can also use other weak acid solutions like the ones used to clean coffee machines and electric water boilers. After, just wash with a lot of water. I ADVISE YOU NOT TO USE OTHERS ACIDS, YOU CAN ARM YOUR PETS, DAMAGE THE CAGE AND GET SEVERE SKIN DAMAGE.
Sawdust and woodshavings are not the same. Sawdust, as you can tell by the name e mostly wood dust, which you have to avoid. Whoodshavings are small and very thin pieces of wood, but if you want to use this make sure it’s wood dust free and proper for guinea pigs. But you can also use hay, or little compressed wood / straw logs proper for guinea pigs, rabbits, … that are dust free, mite free and absorbent. You can buy all the proper beddings in pet store.
i used fleece once and it got full of poo and these worms so i had to stop it was sooooooooooo disgusting
lol no way you you only have to change the cage just once a week. every guinea pig ive had ive had to clean every couple of days.
I use fleece for my piggies! It is easy to clean and they love it!
I used carefresh and after 1 week the bedding grew on their little peices of poop and started to sprout mushrooms. only after one week. That is why i wont ever use carefresh anymore ever!
Whaaah? its only 8$ lol i buy it all the time for my hamster..
carefresh costs too much
Dont worry!! My sawdust is made for guinea pigs in perticular — they are dust extracted and they have sent or cider or pine. It cost a lot but its worth it. Remember it MENT for guinea pigs! I did already know that though.
can i create home made recycled newspaper stuff? is it like the pulp for paper mache?(<–is the spelling correct?lol)
can somebody teach me how?
me too aaahH!!! :/
my guinea pigs name is peaches!! haha how funny :p
can i prlease give yo usome advice? seriously consider not use wood shavings. My guinea pig went to the vet yesterday and we found out he has mites which the vet said usually comes from wood bedding. Once they have mites they dont go away ever if you dont talk them to the vet to be treated. My vet bill was about $125…also he had a wood chip stuck in his paw and it got swollen and infected and had to get a surgical scrub. Id recommend recycled paper bedding or news paper in strips