Hi everyone, this is my first posting at CavyCages... though I've been lurking on the forum for some time.
I've been looking for a way to save money on bedding for my piggies... I've been buying them CareFresh Ultra from PetSmart at 30 dollars a bag, and I change their cage about once a week. I'm sure you can see this can get expensive real fast.
So I searched around on the Internet for a way to get CareFresh bedding more cheaply, and I came across Kim's Ark Rat Rescue through this forum or one of its cousins. (broken link removed)
Anyway, Kim's Ark sells Harlan Teklad bedding called TekFresh at 19 dollars a bag plus shipping. This is cheaper but still pretty expensive, so I kept looking, and decided to call Harlan Teklad myself to see if I could buy direct.
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Turns out you can, but the minimum order is 350 dollars, and the shipping cost for that order is 120. Pretty amazing huh? See normally Harlan Teklad only sells to big labs and stuff, so to make it worth their while they set this really high minimum order... So what do you get for all this money? About 40 bags of bedding (a whole pallet), which breaks down to about 12 dollars a bag. Cost seems better when you look at it like that... 12 dollars a week vs. 30 dollars a week, plus I don't ever have to step foot in PetSmart again!
Thought you all might like to know... think I'm going to make a purchase next week, when I get my bonus. I'll let you know how it goes.
Till then,
-Will
I've been looking for a way to save money on bedding for my piggies... I've been buying them CareFresh Ultra from PetSmart at 30 dollars a bag, and I change their cage about once a week. I'm sure you can see this can get expensive real fast.
So I searched around on the Internet for a way to get CareFresh bedding more cheaply, and I came across Kim's Ark Rat Rescue through this forum or one of its cousins. (broken link removed)
Anyway, Kim's Ark sells Harlan Teklad bedding called TekFresh at 19 dollars a bag plus shipping. This is cheaper but still pretty expensive, so I kept looking, and decided to call Harlan Teklad myself to see if I could buy direct.
(broken link removed)
Turns out you can, but the minimum order is 350 dollars, and the shipping cost for that order is 120. Pretty amazing huh? See normally Harlan Teklad only sells to big labs and stuff, so to make it worth their while they set this really high minimum order... So what do you get for all this money? About 40 bags of bedding (a whole pallet), which breaks down to about 12 dollars a bag. Cost seems better when you look at it like that... 12 dollars a week vs. 30 dollars a week, plus I don't ever have to step foot in PetSmart again!
Thought you all might like to know... think I'm going to make a purchase next week, when I get my bonus. I'll let you know how it goes.
Till then,
-Will