How to clean filthy wood hide?

[4boipigs]

I have a wood hide from Small Pet Select. I bought it without realizing that I would probably have some trouble cleaning it. I have had it since May. Now it is filthy, as seen in the pics, from pee, poop, and general boar nastiness. How do I clean this, and how often should I be cleaning it? I want to try whatever I can first since this wasn't a cheap hide.

 

[Piggies&buns]

Whether you will ever get it clean is probably not possible given it’s wood.
But I would recommend you get some F10 (vet grade disinfectant) and soak it in that for a few hours, then leave it to dry. The F10 kill anything that may be lurking in the wood.
I give all my wooden hides a spray with F10 (I buy the concentrate version and dilute it myself) regularly.

 

[piggieminder]

I paint my wooden hides with pet safe paint which gives them a wipe clean surface. I wipe them down with F10 disinfectant once or twice a week depending how marked they are. The bottom corner areas that get the grottiest tend to need a new coat of paint once or twice a year.

 

[piggl]

I have a bunch of wooden hides and they all look like this from time to time. I find giving them a wipe down with warm soapy water does the job, but a disinfectant every now and again wouldn’t go amiss.

 

[Qualcast&Flymo]

As it looks like unpolished wood, how about scrubbing off any solid stuff then using coarse sandpaper to rub the wood down until you get to a clean layer? Then F10 and/or pet-safe paint or varnish.