Pee Pads And Fleece Qiestions

[Gizmosis]

How ofren do you change the pee pad i have been daily w pee pads and 2x week i change out fleece and ot sometimes still smells alittle. I have 4 boars 2 seperate cages. 3 right now as one is new and in quarentine.

Any tips on flece or bedding? I have even been cutting out quarter size pieces of puppy pee pads to put right underneath where they go in their hot cuz that's where they pee the most and throwing those out like twice a day. I'm vigilant with cage cleaning and it takes up a big chunk of my morning and evening and i am wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if i should just use bedding? Whats the best alternative for c and c cages fleece and pee pads or bedding and what's uhaul pads and where do you get them. I an new to most of this and just keep doing research. Also can they be litter box trained? One loves to run the bedroom while I'm watching i would love to pee pee train them. How so?

 

[Gizmosis]

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[Gizmosis]

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[Watchman]

I have a layer of puppy pads with towels on top then another layer of puppy pads with fleece ontop. I change the middle puppy pads twice a week while the bottom layer is done weekly. The fleece and towels all depends on how wet they are. Can be once a week or even twice.

 

[Reenie]

I have fleece cage liners made with mattress toppers covered with fleece. The fleece wicks the wee through to the liner. On top of them, I use noodle mats in the areas where they sleep or wee the most. I also have hay areas with either a plastic box or litter tray lined with newspaper and filled with hay, and a paper lined litter tray under a hay rack (different things in different cages). I change the newspaper and damp hay every day, putting any dry hay back on top of the fresh stuff. The noodle mats I change whenever they look/smell as though they need it (usually two or three times a week, and the cage liners get changed about once a week when I also wipe out the cage with white vinegar. They never smell particularly bad doing this.

 

[flowerfairy]

My 7 are in a large c and c cage. They have hay trays with hemp bedding and lots of hay. I scatter grass in the hay trays and pellets at bed time. Theyntend to pee where they ear, but not just where they eat.

The rest of the cage has liners. Fleede zorb fleece or fleece mattress protector fleece.

I put noodle mats or mini cage liners under their beds (where they spend a lot of time) and change them every couple of days (when wet).

Hay trays are topped up twice a day and cleaned out every other day.

Hay tray in the background.

Main hay tray area with paper lined grow trays

Bed area in the middle of the cage

 

[Gizmosis]

I have a layer of puppy pads with towels on top then another layer of puppy pads with fleece ontop. I change the middle puppy pads twice a week while the bottom layer is done weekly. The fleece and towels all depends on how wet they are. Can be once a week or even twice.

Do they tend to go more on the fleece I feel like the towels would soak up all the urine

 

[Gizmosis]

I have fleece cage liners made with mattress toppers covered with fleece. The fleece wicks the wee through to the liner. On top of them, I use noodle mats in the areas where they sleep or wee the most. I also have hay areas with either a plastic box or litter tray lined with newspaper and filled with hay, and a paper lined litter tray under a hay rack (different things in different cages). I change the newspaper and damp hay every day, putting any dry hay back on top of the fresh stuff. The noodle mats I change whenever they look/smell as though they need it (usually two or three times a week, and the cage liners get changed about once a week when I also wipe out the cage with white vinegar. They never smell particularly bad doing this.

Those are such awesome ideas how do you go about making all these things

 

[Gizmosis]

I have fleece cage liners made with mattress toppers covered with fleece. The fleece wicks the wee through to the liner. On top of them, I use noodle mats in the areas where they sleep or wee the most. I also have hay areas with either a plastic box or litter tray lined with newspaper and filled with hay, and a paper lined litter tray under a hay rack (different things in different cages). I change the newspaper and damp hay every day, putting any dry hay back on top of the fresh stuff. The noodle mats I change whenever they look/smell as though they need it (usually two or three times a week, and the cage liners get changed about once a week when I also wipe out the cage with white vinegar. They never smell particularly bad doing this.

What are noodle mads and you only have to clean that once a week the

I have fleece cage liners made with mattress toppers covered with fleece. The fleece wicks the wee through to the liner. On top of them, I use noodle mats in the areas where they sleep or wee the most. I also have hay areas with either a plastic box or litter tray lined with newspaper and filled with hay, and a paper lined litter tray under a hay rack (different things in different cages). I change the newspaper and damp hay every day, putting any dry hay back on top of the fresh stuff. The noodle mats I change whenever they look/smell as though they need it (usually two or three times a week, and the cage liners get changed about once a week when I also wipe out the cage with white vinegar. They never smell particularly bad doing this.

How exactly do you make those cage liners and I can't believe you only have to do it once a week that's amazing what are noodle mats as well

 

[Gizmosis]

My 7 are in a large c and c cage. They have hay trays with hemp bedding and lots of hay. I scatter grass in the hay trays and pellets at bed time. Theyntend to pee where they ear, but not just where they eat.

The rest of the cage has liners. Fleede zorb fleece or fleece mattress protector fleece.

I put noodle mats or mini cage liners under their beds (where they spend a lot of time) and change them every couple of days (when wet).

Hay trays are topped up twice a day and cleaned out every other day.

Hay tray in the background.

Main hay tray area with paper lined grow trays

Bed area in the middle of the cage

Thats amazing i wish o knew how to make all these different things and where to purchase lol I also never heard of a noodle map and I don't know how people use U-Haul pads or whatever they're called or mattress pads I'd like to purchase something thicker like that

 

[flowerfairy]

Liners are made as a sandwich fleece as the bread and mattress protectors or zorb as the filling. There are some great tutorials on youtube.

I got noodle mats on ebay, they are shower mats. Cage liners are much more absorbent and the fleece wicks away the urine into the absorbent layer so thet the guinea oigs are not sitting on wet fleece.

Towels soak up wee but it stays wet so not comfortable to lie on.

 

[Reenie]

@Gizmosis The noodle mats are bath mats (see them in the pics below), I only have 2 piggies in a 5x2 and 3 piggies in a 5x3 C&C cage. They would probably need changed more often if I had as many as 7. So long as you put pee pads or litter trays in the areas where they pee the most, you can change them more often, and reduce the amount of times you need to change the liners.

I make the liners with fleece and mattress toppers sewn together (some people do fleece top and bottom, but I just do one layer of each. You can find loads of instructions on YouTube. I hope you get on ok with them x