Fleece lining help

[GuineapigEm]

Hey

I currently have my boys on fleece liners and was wondering if anyone had the issue that their fleece liners wick too well?

When I do my spot check every day, even with additional pee pads on top of the main fleece in their top pee spots, the pee has come straight through everything and is wetting the cage base?

This is happening after 1 day, so it’s not like the liner has been in the cage for too long- it’s like the absorbing layer isn’t actually absorbing it’s just passing straight through?

If this is normal then I’ll just get puppy pads to go under their main corners but surely the absorbing layer should stop some of it coming out? I’ve read posts saying they’ve never had pee get to their bases?

For context, I have 2xkavee liners that are double sided fleece and I also bought 2x fleece topper ‘waterproof’ liners off Etsy that have a more waterproof material underside- I’m seeing this issue with both types of liners

 

[piggieminder]

The only time I have this is when Brillo empties his bottle. He has a way of playing with the spout so that the water just runs out of the bottle. I use puppy pads under the fleece in the areas where the bottles are with newspaper on top of the pad, I rarely have to change the puppy pads just the paper gets damp.

 

[GuineapigEm]

The only time I have this is when Brillo empties his bottle. He has a way of playing with the spout so that the water just runs out of the bottle. I use puppy pads under the fleece in the areas where the bottles are with newspaper on top of the pad, I rarely have to change the puppy pads just the paper gets damp.

I would’ve guessed bottle too but it’s no where near where the bottles are, the pee is just going straight through the liners and onto the base, I’m constantly having to lift the liners to wipe up the pee- doesn’t seem to matter how many extra pads I put there either

 

[AidaB]

We do similar to Piggieminder and have puppypads under the waterbottles with our fleece pee pads on top.
Our fleece pads have a zorb inner which is absorbent. Its rare for us to have anything leak through.