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Puppy Pads need disposable solution

garfunkle

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:)HI
I'm a new pig owner to an awesome guy named Garfunkel and getting a new pig this weekend my mom does not want fleece or towels in the washer so i need a disposable solution my cage is separated into to areas a play and a bathroom/food area because i read that they will go to the bathroom where they eat I'm considering puppy pads and care fresh in a litter box.I would appreciate any advice recommendations or suggestions

PS i also need to be aware of odor control :eye-poppi
 

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Kiln-dried wood shavings, carefresh, Yesterday's News, and wood pellets are all options for you. Disposable puppy pads will get expensive pretty quickly. Of the things I listed above, wood pellets are the cheapest, the others are all roughly the same price. I've used aspen shavings, which were pretty good at odor control, and I currently use wood pellets, which are excellent at odor control.
 

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spy9doc, which pellets post are you talking about? I've written about pellets several times, but none of them stand out in my memory.
 

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Are you saying lining a litter box with a puppy pad and then covering it with carefresh? That's what I do, except I use Back-2-Nature bedding which I like a lot, and it keeps the smell down! I buy cheap puppy pads from Walmart. I change the litter box pretty often (maybe every other day or so--the rest of my cage is fleece) I still think Carefresh is a good bedding for a litter box or wood pellets like bpatters was telling you about with the puppy pads underneath. They don't smell as quickly as newspaper and it keeps the plastic trays that I use for the litter boxes from getting really nasty on the bottom.

Hope I could help!
 

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When I first started I used incontinence pads (they were cheaper than puppy pads) from Wal-mart and carefresh on top. This worked well but got expensive-which is why I switched to fleece. I didn't have any problems with odor and changed it all out once a week.

I did have a litter box at one end of the cage with hay and food and I changed that twice a week or more just because they peed/pooped more in there.

But you can find different versions of cheaper carefresh too. And shop around-my farm and home store sells Carefresh for $5 cheaper than the petco or petsmarts here.
 

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Wood pellets are only good for litter boxes, it's not good to use them as bedding, it will hut their feet.For mine, I used news paper as base and then shredded news paper as bedding. For odor control, I change it 2 times a day. If that's too much for you, you could still use news paper as base and then wood shavings for bedding. Although shredded paper is still cheaper.
 
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