You don't put the fleece in the washer until you've gotten the hay off by vacuuming, brushing, shaking the fleece, etc. I have fleece in my entire cage, even under the hayrack. Hay does get all over the fleece there...but I pick it up and throw it away, then vacuum whatever is left (or if I'm...

I'm thinking it would be much easier to make fleece/blanket pads to fit in the kitchen box, then change those every day or two. I don't see how the strips are doing anything but making it harder to clean out the poops since they don't absorb anything anyway...and with the fleece cut into strips...

I've only been using the blankets for maybe 3 weeks or so now. Mine shed a LOT - the dryer lint filter is covered in a thick layer, and there is lint on the inside of the dryer & door whenever I have dried them, plus balls of lint all over the blanket. I washed some fleece with a blanket once...

I vacuum my fleece - that helps.

How did these do when you cut them? Did you need to stitch the edges to keep them from unraveling or to keep insides from coming out? Or are they more like felt or fleece in the way they are constructed?

Thanks for answering! Yes, batting would be the fluffy layer between the fabric layers (like in a quilt). I'm intrigued...I would love to give these a try!

Are you certain that the Harbor Freight blankets are 100% cotton batting inside? I see that it states the cover is cotton/poly and the specs list the material as "cotton", but I don't see it specified that it really is cotton batting...did it have a tag or anything that clarified this? It...

Ok, I just called them and it turns out my order was returned to them stamped "no mail receptacle" - I have no idea why, as my mailbox is definitely in the same place it's been forever, I've been receiving all my other mail with no problem, and my address on the order was correct... And the...

Nope, not yet. I'm going to try to contact them today and see if it has been shipped.

Does shipping tend to take a while? I ordered the sample piece of Zorb almost 2 weeks ago and haven't heard anything (I did get an order confirmation email, but nothing since).

How big of a mesh bag do you need to fit a cage-sized piece of Zorb so that it's not so scrunched up it doesn't get clean? I have a mesh bag that's about 14" x 14"...that seems too small.

I have a sample piece of Zorb ordered so I can check it out in person before I buy a large amount, but for those who are using this stuff I have more questions: I've decided I don't want to sew the Zorb to my fleece sheets. I just want to make an easy absorbant underlayer - one piece, just...

I have a question about this stuff, something I'm not clear on... can you wash/dry a piece of Zorb loose, without it being sewn sandwiched between other fabrics? Or would it fall apart/stretch out of shape in the wash? I'm interested in using it, but wouldn't want to sew it to my fleece...

I'm fairly new to having pigs (7 weeks today!) but what I have done seems to be working well so I'll share it. I am using fleece in my cage. I also made several small pads of fleece/towel/waterproof liner (actually crib pads) sewn together. I put these pads in the areas that my piggies tend...

Thanks for all the replies...I ended up finding a good deal online for a Dirt Devil Kone cordless/rechargeable hand vac, so we'll see how well it does when it gets here!

We've just started using fleece for bedding in our 2x4 cage, and I had been planning to use my old Dustbuster to vacuum up the poop every day - but it turns out that it won't pick up the poop at ALL (it may just be too old to have enough suction left - it's about 15 years old!). My regular...