Post by 3piggles on Feb 1, 2008 1:35:02 GMT
10 Little Pigs and I both use a pine pellet bedding called Woody Pet, Equine Pine and some other names, depending on where it's sold. The pellets,when wet, break down to a sawdust that contains urine and odors for a good two months, saving lots of money on bedding and lots of time on cage cleanings. I cover the sawdust with a towel topped by a sheet, and just change the towel and sheet, mixing the sawdust around and reusing it.
I had a lot of aspen bedding left over when i changed to the pellets, and after a couple of months, it was time to change the saw dust, so I decided to use up the aspen shavings and get them out of the room. When I removed the sawdust, the linoleum facing on the base was pristinely clean, like new. With the aspen shavings, even with newspaper over the lino, it had been stained by urine over a couple of years. I always bleached the lino, so I knew it was sanitized, but I never got the stains out. The stains are completely gone. I don't know how the sawdust did it, but all the stains are gone.
Since this worked on linoleum, it probably works on the plastic bases of store bought cages. The bases get stained and ucky looking. One bag of Woody Pet, Equine Pine or whatever is about $5. Since I didn't remove the sawdust for a couple of months, I don't know how quickly it works. It may have been clean by the end of the first week, but I couldn't see the lino.
I had a lot of aspen bedding left over when i changed to the pellets, and after a couple of months, it was time to change the saw dust, so I decided to use up the aspen shavings and get them out of the room. When I removed the sawdust, the linoleum facing on the base was pristinely clean, like new. With the aspen shavings, even with newspaper over the lino, it had been stained by urine over a couple of years. I always bleached the lino, so I knew it was sanitized, but I never got the stains out. The stains are completely gone. I don't know how the sawdust did it, but all the stains are gone.
Since this worked on linoleum, it probably works on the plastic bases of store bought cages. The bases get stained and ucky looking. One bag of Woody Pet, Equine Pine or whatever is about $5. Since I didn't remove the sawdust for a couple of months, I don't know how quickly it works. It may have been clean by the end of the first week, but I couldn't see the lino.
I bought it from the shelter, so maybe I couldn't find it here where I shop? 
I really am going to try wood pellets out! 
