Easy care for Guinea Pig Piggysitters :)

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Famof5!

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Hello. I'm hoping for a little advice please. I'm going away for a month and our Guinea Pigs will be getting looked after by a family, they do not have any Guinea Pigs so I'm wanting to make it as easy for them as possible. I currently use bathmats in their cage, which is great at home, but would anyone have any tips on something more disposable? I'm just hoping there is something else I can use that means they won't need to wash them in their washing machine (I do, but I know some people don't really like it)
Any advice would be amazing!
 
When my piggies went to Aunty Lucy on holiday (Lucy had to stop piggy boarding for personal reasons) she used unscented puppy pads and just put hay on the top. I got loads of these for free for my holiday cage (for when I go away for a long weekend in the caravan and I put fleece on the top of them) by asking for them on a Local Free to You site on Facebook. It's where people offer their stuff for free that they don't need anymore to stop it going to Landfill. Have you got any local to you? I was offered so many I had to turn them down in the end.
 
I use old newspapers with wood shavings on top. Then piles of hay.
 
I’d go with newspaper, Carefresh and hay on top 😁
 
When our pigs are being looked after by other people, we generally stop using the washable bedding and put them on completely disposable bedding. Newspaper, then compressed wood pellet cat litter, then wood shavings and hay on top. In my experience it smells better than fleece etc, and takes less daily maintenance. All they really need to do is keep adding hay on top, and after about a week, empty the whole lot into the rubbish and start again.

We don't keep our pigs like this in general, because it's too expensive and creates too much rubbish, but for short term stays with pig sitters, I find it better.
 
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