How To Stop Burrowing? Should I Buy Liners?

[Lymaine]

Any tips? They are in a c&c cage with a layer of towels, then puppy pads and finally fleece. I have tried using longer and shorter fleece, clipping the fleece to the sides, tucking it around the other layers, putting more hideys (I even made them a little fleece forest), more toys, a loose separate fleece for them to burrow in... nothing works when these ratbags decide they want to burrow!
It’s annoying but I can cope with it... what concerns me is I am going away in a few weeks and my sister in law will only be able to come once a day to feed and spot clean (I spot clean twice - three times a day and full clean twice a week). Would it be worth investing in a liner for while we are away to make clean up easier for her? She won’t be cleaning them out, just spot cleaning.

 

[flowerfairy]

A liner sounds a good plan or even some hemp bedding instead of fleece whilst she is in charge, easy to spot clean and you can revert to fleece when you return. I love my cage liners. Good luck.

 

[helloitsbecca]

When I used to use regular fleece with puppy pads, I literally had to use about 100+ tiny little binder clips all around the edge of the cage and clip the fleece up to keep the pigs from burrowing under - and even then they would tug and pull at it and try to get under! They would burrow under if I laid it flat too. As soon as I got cage liners, the burrowing stopped - they have never even attempted to burrow under them piggies are so odd lol.

 

[DM030819]

I have a burrowing pig. I use small squares of vetbed under their hides now and they burrow under there now instead of under the fleece.