Grumble about previous owners and ceder

[LadyMorrgian]

I don't know what forum this belongs in, I am very sorry if I have posted in the wrong area.

I am very mad at the lady who owned my little piggies befor me. Se never clipped thier nails. Kept them in tiny petstore cages. and lined thier cages in ceder, seriously, ceder?
Why do they still sell this stuff, I have all kinds of pets, big small, medium. As of yet I have not come across a pet that ceder was a good bedding for. No reptiles, rodents, even crustation's I have cared for could use the stuff

The woman I got my piggies from, hands me the giant bag of ceder chips and then tells me to never feed celery to the pigs cause it is posin.

I looked at the piggies nails to the bedding and back to her. i just shook my head was so sad.

[rabbitsncavyluv]

Pet stores can still make money selling cedar for some reason. Maybe if we did a mass complain compaign to Kaytee. They are the brand I see most.

[ZiggyMama]

My piggy came to me with scurvy, getting hay only as a treat, eating tons of carrots and bananas. The rescue lady was a foster who knew nothing about GP's, but it's his previous owners who did all the damage. It's just sad that people don't do research about animals before they decide to buy/adopt one.

[Simonmaal]

Cedar, maple and pine lumber are usually cheaper than other types of wood. Pet stores sell them for this reason, not because they are any good for small animals.

Maple isn't as bad as the other two, both of which contain phenols. Phenols are an irritant that can lead to pneumonia when the respiratory tract gets affected. I can't believe any person in their right mind would use cedar! It isn't as if researching guinea pig care is difficult, especially with the internet!

Annoys the hell out of me to see this kind of thing

[ColoradoMama]

As long as someone is still buying it, they'll keep selling it.

[Simonmaal]

Originally Posted by ColoradoMama

As long as someone is still buying it, they'll keep selling it.

Yes and as long as it is sold as low price animal bedding, people will buy it.

It's a vicious circle.

[pennykit&amanda]

I had an argument with someone about pine and cedar awhile ago. She kept telling me that aspen was the kind that had phenols in it... It's hard to believe that someone can think that, it just proves that they have done NO research whatsoever! And to not trust most books on guinea pig care (that's where she said she got the info from).

It also proves that she never even looked on the bag, they always say something like "To protect your small animal's health, place bedding in open air habitats where its walls allow air to pass through..." which is evidence of something being bad.