Over the winter I decided to try using fleece bedding for my guinea pigs. I had learned about it in a few of the guinea pig groups and thought I would give it a try. It had it’s good points. With 3 cages I wasn’t throwing out a garbage bag full of litter at cage cleaning time. Once I bought the fleece and towel material I used, there really weren’t any other costs. But it does require some work. For it to work well, you really need to sweep up the droppings everyday. Working overtime I didn’t have as much free time so my cleaning time went way down. I was thinking about going back to litter.
Lucky for me, I got the opportunity to try carefresh® custom and carefresh® complete just as I was contemplating making the switch. One 12.5L package of each arrived at my house.
carefresh® custom details
- Expands to 2 times- When you look at the packages, it doesn’t look like it will be enough. But it expands once it’s out of the package to about 30L.
- Absorbent- it absorbs more than 3 times what wood chips absorb.
- Dust-free- 99% dust free
- Odor control- gives 10 days of odor control.
- Made from 100% sustainable and renewable paper fibers,
- Litter sized for the size of the pet- the litter for hamster and gerbils is made of smaller size pieces while the guinea pig and rabbit formula is larger pieces.
carefresh® complete details
- Expands to 2 times- When you look at the packages, it doesn’t look like it will be enough. But it expands once it’s out of the package to about 30L.
- Absorbent- it absorbs more than 3 times what wood chips absorb.
- Dust-free- 99% dust free
- Odor control- gives 10 days of odor control.
- Made from 100% sustainable and renewable paper fibers.
Bufford and Cletus, the Skinny Pig Bros, got to try the litter since they are the messiest of my guinea pigs. They have a 2 x 4 C & C cage and it took 1 1/2 packages to give the floor a good 1” covering. I do my cage cleaning on the weekends. I used the carefresh® custom for 2 weeks with spot cleaning the potty spots at the 1 week spot. I added the other 1/2 of the package when I did the spot cleaning.
The carefresh® worked as expected. It did a great job at absorbing the urine and I didn’t notice any odor during the 2 weeks. Bufford and Cletus had no problems with it.
If you use litter for your small pets, carefresh® is one I can recommend.
You can purchase carefresh® in a variety of sizes on Amazon.
