Nails/Nail Trimming: Pizza stone to help wear down nails?

[jess_softball]

Do you all think this would be a good idea or a bad idea? Putting a pizza stone in the cage so they would have to walk over top of it to help wear down their nails.

[azalea]

This idea seems like a horrid thing to do to an innocent little pizza stone which should be in the kitchen fulfilling its pizza stone destiny as a... stone, on which one would bake pizza and other flat breads and things.

Neither of my stones (pizza, that is) has a rough enough texture to accomplish the task you describe. If the stone you have in mind is rough enough to do the job, you have a very porous stone indeed.

I did place rough pavers, bricks, clay pots and bits of lava rock in B&P's cavy cottage but it only accomplished one thing. I realized I needed to learn to trim their nails- I should be brave, suck it up and risk a cut to the quick of the matter- learn how to care for their nails.

The stone may work great but there is not substitute for learning what you can to be the best kind of piggie partner. It may be that some one with more experience will give you a better answer, I just know that the rocks and bricks idea didn't work well for me and I still needed to learn how to trim.

[fieryone]

I wouldn't use my stone for this. It cost too much money to be ruined in that way. I'd buy a flat garden stone or a brick from a home improvement store for about $3. But even so, you will still need to trim their nails.

[akstrohm]

You'll still need to trim their nails since they won't spend much time on the stone compared to the rest of the cage (and obviously this isn't a good surface for an entire cage).