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DeniseKris
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MIRACLE! Polyester utility/moving pads
Calling all piggie lovers...
We've just started lining the floortime playpen with a moving pad. It's INCREDIBLE.
This thing is 100% poly, and so far, the boys haven't shown the slightest interest in eating it. Assuming that they continue to walk on this thing and not treat it as a snack, it's a PERFECT bedding material.
The pads are manufactured by Kimberly-Clark (yes, ladies, the same company that manufactures your favorite sanitary napkins, which is essentially what these are--just huge ones. They're 72" x 80").
They wick away piddles in about 5 seconds to the insulated center, just like the aforementioned feminine products or disposable diapers. It's like those old commercials--you can put your hand on top of the spot they just piddled on and it feels 95% dry a minute later.
"Pellets" don't stick, so you can put your piggies elsewhere for literally three minutes while you hand-vac their daily deposit away, and presto! A clean new cage every day. They do NOT leak through. Moisture stays inside and disperses.
The pads are washable (but not heat-dryable; you have to hang them out to dry or use air). They're absorbent, they're reusable, and best of all, they're CHEAP. We paid $10 apiece for them, and they could easily be cut in half to make two liners for a 5X2 C&C cage. I plan to do this with two of them, giving us 4 rotatable liners--probably enough for a whole month.
We bought four. Assuming we manage to get, oh, say, 10 washes out of them, that's cheaper than any bedding material we've found yet. It's also far less messy. Certainly beats $20 every two weeks for Carefresh.
We got ours at a local moving supply store that only sells to walk-ins, but I did some research. Here's a URL that sells them online:
(broken link removed)
If anybody uses these already, let me know whether there's something I'm missing. Otherwise, I can't imagine why piggies everywhere aren't padding around (no pun intended) on these things and ending the pine/aspen/carefresh/newspaper debates this minute!
Denise
Calling all piggie lovers...
We've just started lining the floortime playpen with a moving pad. It's INCREDIBLE.
This thing is 100% poly, and so far, the boys haven't shown the slightest interest in eating it. Assuming that they continue to walk on this thing and not treat it as a snack, it's a PERFECT bedding material.
The pads are manufactured by Kimberly-Clark (yes, ladies, the same company that manufactures your favorite sanitary napkins, which is essentially what these are--just huge ones. They're 72" x 80").
They wick away piddles in about 5 seconds to the insulated center, just like the aforementioned feminine products or disposable diapers. It's like those old commercials--you can put your hand on top of the spot they just piddled on and it feels 95% dry a minute later.
"Pellets" don't stick, so you can put your piggies elsewhere for literally three minutes while you hand-vac their daily deposit away, and presto! A clean new cage every day. They do NOT leak through. Moisture stays inside and disperses.
The pads are washable (but not heat-dryable; you have to hang them out to dry or use air). They're absorbent, they're reusable, and best of all, they're CHEAP. We paid $10 apiece for them, and they could easily be cut in half to make two liners for a 5X2 C&C cage. I plan to do this with two of them, giving us 4 rotatable liners--probably enough for a whole month.
We bought four. Assuming we manage to get, oh, say, 10 washes out of them, that's cheaper than any bedding material we've found yet. It's also far less messy. Certainly beats $20 every two weeks for Carefresh.
We got ours at a local moving supply store that only sells to walk-ins, but I did some research. Here's a URL that sells them online:
(broken link removed)
If anybody uses these already, let me know whether there's something I'm missing. Otherwise, I can't imagine why piggies everywhere aren't padding around (no pun intended) on these things and ending the pine/aspen/carefresh/newspaper debates this minute!
Denise
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