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  1. labgirl5

    Bedding Best bedding?

    I personally have yet to find a wood pellet that I like (with little pine smell) so I use a mixture of compressed paper cat-litter pellets (non-clumping) with CareFRESH over the top. The pellets themselves are a lot softer than wooden ones, so I'm sure I could just use them on their own, but I...
  2. labgirl5

    Bedding good bedding?

    You can't just use towels, you're supposed to use fleece OVER towels - or another absorbent layer. Towels don't allow urine to sink beneath it and dry like fleece, so it's very unsanitary. You can get fleece at a fabric store for around seven dollars a yard. How large is your cage? Fleece is...
  3. labgirl5

    Fleece Has anyone tried fabric velcro?

    Since you'd be washing the fleece so much I doubt that the velcro would hold. It might withstand two or three washes, but after a while it'd probably fall off.
  4. labgirl5

    Cleaning How often to clean Fleece?

    What are you using underneath the fleece? You should spot-clean 1-2 times a day and completely wash everything at least once per week.
  5. labgirl5

    Bedding Fleece over pine?

    How about you use just the wood shavings without the fleece? She could spot clean every other day, and it'd be less work than fleece.
  6. labgirl5

    Bedding Your Input on Guinea Pig Bedding?

    (It's Kaibrooke from HH! :) ) If you use a towel then the urine will stay wet and your guinea pig will be sitting in its own urine. The whole purpose of fleece is that after 3-5 washes it begins to wick away moisture so the urine will seep to the towels beneath it and the fleece will be dry on...
  7. labgirl5

    Mattress Pad Uhaul pad questions

    (broken link removed) I've never used them, but I'd like to.
  8. labgirl5

    Cleaning Hand vacuum sucks up fleece

    I think the fleece would at least be have to clipped to the side by binder clips.
  9. labgirl5

    Bedding Fleece or Paper?

    What size cage are you planning on building?
  10. labgirl5

    Bedding Fleece or Paper?

    Paper bedding? Like CareFRESH?
  11. labgirl5

    Fleece Fleece won't wick? ):

    I had to wash my fleece 9 times and soak it in the bathtub a few hours before it began wicking.
  12. labgirl5

    Fleece Washing new fleece, I made it worse! try vinegar?

    Are you sure the fleece is 100% polyester? I believe it has to be for it to wick properly.
  13. labgirl5

    Fleece Washing new fleece, I made it worse! try vinegar?

    I found that adding a bit of Dawn blue dish soap helped with wicking.
  14. labgirl5

    Fleece Wished I could sew :/

    If you don't take the time to straighten out the fleece, the yes.
  15. labgirl5

    Fleece Wished I could sew :/

    You can just use binder clips to clip the fleece/absorbent layer to the coro.
  16. labgirl5

    Puppy Pads Could this be used for an absorbent layer?

    Just a question - do the U-haul pads do a good job at masking some of the waste/pee odor?
  17. labgirl5

    Liners got all the stuff to finish my cage today!

    Must be :).
  18. labgirl5

    Liners got all the stuff to finish my cage today!

    There is a chance that the fleece won't wick after just three washes. I had to do 6 washes plus a soak in a tub for mine before they wicked.
  19. labgirl5

    Puppy Pads Which goes first!?

    I use puppy pads and towels (I'm switching to U-Haul, though), and I do puppy pads, towels, then fleece.
  20. labgirl5

    Carefresh How much bedding and a question about wooden pellets

    I use fleece, but under my pig's igloo I use a cozy I bought at Pet Smart. He pees/poo's on it, but it's easy to pop in the wash and/or shake the poo's off into the trash.
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