Wee stained fur - help please?

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Hey there! Me again, asking you to share your wisdom.

There was a member a week or two ago, that has a problem with her gorgeous white piggy, who kept getting a wee stained bottom. Well, now I am having the same problem, I cant find the thread or remember the responses, so I will tell my story.

I had decided that having my piggies on fleece was denying them the oppertunity to forrage, so I added some hay trays for them. These are filled with newspaper(lining) then hay. They seem to show them little interest, and just eat the hay from the rack and pee on the paper. This means they get wee stained hair, which my current shampoo doesnt seem to get the stains out, and I cant keep bathing them as often as I have been as Its not good for their skin. (ive only bathed them twice, but it was 2 weeks appart so wont be happening again for a while)

For the moment, I have taken the litter trays out and instead done things like stuffed tissue boxes with hay so they have to try to get it out. They seem perfectly happy with this.

My question is, is there anything else I can do about this? Other people dont seem to have dirty white piggys, how do you do it?
 
I have been talking about my lovely PEW, Misty, being more of a stained colour so might have been me! :red
We bathed her in a gorgeous guinea shampoo which got out the lovely stains, and so far she is still a beautiful PEW!
Have you tried the wipes you can get for small animals? Hadn't heard of them until someone talked about them on here. Gently stroking her with one helped reduce marks, could be worth a try?

PS Lazy Misty also lies on the hay, eats and pees on it and continues to lay in it! :red
 
my peter has taken to sitting in his own pee/poop recently, he keeps getting one manky spot on the white side of his bum rolleyes
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one! I assume this is just the normal shampoo they recomend for every day kind of cleaning?

I have not heard of the wipes, but I will definatly be looking out for them. Any idea where they come from?

I have a black piggy too, and while i suspect he is just as dirty atleast he doesnt show it! :)

They are on fleece, so its not usually a problem, only since I added the hay trays has it been noticeable.

Thanks for your speedy replies. :)
 
wipes dont help for my dirty boy...also he has a really active grease gland and they just mingle and make a lovely ermmm mucky bum effect :))
 
Yes my boy is greasy, but i wouldnt say overly so. Just always got yellow fur! :)
 
My Pixel looks beatiful from a distance but her back end is always mucky - even right after a bath rolleyes She's clean and doesn't smell, but her hair is stained.

Thankfully Hettie (in pic) doesn't seem to have the same bad habit!
 
Noodles has a lovely white fresh looking bum - but Truffles has a we wee one - and they are both white. - Bumble has a hairy bum:))
 
Peppa has yellow patches under her and on her legs. I haveb't bathed gher since she had the mini's though
 
I never know how often to do it, but they hate it, and theyre dirty again the next day so i only do it when they get realllyyyy dirty.
 
My Smudge is also (or should that be was!) a white girlie who now has a lovely yellow tinged bottom! She suffers from recurrent bladder stones/infections and sadly I have yet to find a way of getting the staining out :( even when she is well.

She is also another one who likes to sit in the hay trays! I have found that by putting megasorb over the newpaper which lines the trays and then adding hay on top has helped - I change the hay over twice daily and if nothing else she is dry, and obviously has lovely fresh hay to munch on so she is a happy girlie:)
 
BonBon is the same.. disgusting butt syndrome:^-.. I'd like to know HOW she gets above her tail bone? :{
 
I think it just soaks up the hair like a wick.

The boys never seemed interested in the hay trays and i have found other ways of them forraging so I'm cutting them out, to see if it helps.
 
Unfortunately you're definitely not the only one! My PEW peru is exactly the same!

He's first in the bath when I get home this weekend and he'll be getting a right good scrub! I find that his butt hair gets manky, so he gets such a fetching haircut around there to keep it as short as possible and that's stopping most of his issues!

I would suggest that rather than newspaper you give something like megazorb a try - treat it like a cat litter box and see if it helps? Newspaper doesn't absorb wee immediately in my experience, it puddles first then soaks through so it'll be going straight onto your piggy rather than into the bedding.
 
Thankyou, I will try that. :)

It is comforting to know I'm not the only one with mucky piggies!
 
Are you talking about long coats?/? BonBon is a short smooth coat.. can anyone tell me how she manages to get it above her gland on her bum mallethead ? As for bathing her.. she hates it, and has even nipped me before ..:(
 
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