AudioHeart
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After my bedding bills are adding upto £20 a month just on hay alone, I have decided with the help of you lovely people (thank you) to change the boys bedding to.......fleece! 
(Lol funnily enough i have fours rolls of fleece around 8 meters all together, sitting in my room doing nothing for the past year! )
I'm sure the boys won't mind having flowery, yellow and green fleece for their little feeties to go on, and i have an old pillow case for the washing machine...i hope this can be a more efficient way to reduce on costs, wastage and be a bite more environmentally friendly.
I have a few questions if you don't mind me asking, I'm so sorry if these have been asked before!:
1: In our outhouse we have a utility wash basin, it's huge, we usually use it to wash the dog in, and any delicate clothing etc, so could i wash the fleece by hand if i ever need to? I'm scared it might not 'wash' properly.
2:i have lined the hutch will self adhesive tiles to make cleaning much easier, however it is quite slippery what would you recommend to hold the fleece down? do you use double sided sticky tape? Velcro? String? Lol! I’m clueless at how you would make it stay
3:what would you recommend for underneath the fleece ...puppypads...towels? And how do puppy pads work... do you have to keep buying them ever week? Or am i best buying incontinence pad bedding do dahs and sewing it to the fleece?
4. The boys are housed in a double hutch, they usually use the top floor for feeding, watering and sleeping and the bottom for playing in....however the hay from the top usually falls down the hatch and i end up with a messy ramp and bottom bit... so my idea was to switch it around, the top floor will be their play and sleep area, i was thinking of putting most of their cosies on the top floor and use the bottom part for their hay, pellets and water. Do you think this will work or will it be too confuddling for them?
5. Lastly, can i be a bit cheeky and ask for photos of fleecey set ups?
In advance, THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking time to answer my questions and helping a ‘newbie’ to fleece.
Laura xx
(Lol funnily enough i have fours rolls of fleece around 8 meters all together, sitting in my room doing nothing for the past year! )I'm sure the boys won't mind having flowery, yellow and green fleece for their little feeties to go on, and i have an old pillow case for the washing machine...i hope this can be a more efficient way to reduce on costs, wastage and be a bite more environmentally friendly.
I have a few questions if you don't mind me asking, I'm so sorry if these have been asked before!:
1: In our outhouse we have a utility wash basin, it's huge, we usually use it to wash the dog in, and any delicate clothing etc, so could i wash the fleece by hand if i ever need to? I'm scared it might not 'wash' properly.
2:i have lined the hutch will self adhesive tiles to make cleaning much easier, however it is quite slippery what would you recommend to hold the fleece down? do you use double sided sticky tape? Velcro? String? Lol! I’m clueless at how you would make it stay
3:what would you recommend for underneath the fleece ...puppypads...towels? And how do puppy pads work... do you have to keep buying them ever week? Or am i best buying incontinence pad bedding do dahs and sewing it to the fleece?
4. The boys are housed in a double hutch, they usually use the top floor for feeding, watering and sleeping and the bottom for playing in....however the hay from the top usually falls down the hatch and i end up with a messy ramp and bottom bit... so my idea was to switch it around, the top floor will be their play and sleep area, i was thinking of putting most of their cosies on the top floor and use the bottom part for their hay, pellets and water. Do you think this will work or will it be too confuddling for them?
5. Lastly, can i be a bit cheeky and ask for photos of fleecey set ups?
In advance, THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking time to answer my questions and helping a ‘newbie’ to fleece.
Laura xx
