Picnic Fleece Blanket

[Choy Andrews]

Hi everyone

Has anyone use the picnic fleece blanket with waterproof as a cage liner?

Regards

 

[Guinea Mum]

That wouldn't work as you need an absorbent layer under the fleece to soak up the urine.

 

[Choy Andrews]

Hi Guinea Mum

Thank you for replying. It's means I am going with the idea of making my own using fleece, old towels and mattress protector that I saw on youtube.

Many thanks

 

[Choy Andrews]

Maybe incontinence bed pad

 

[Guinea Mum]

My concern is that the waterproof layer will stop the urine from going through the fleece to the towels.

I don't know anything about incontinence bed pads.

 

[flowerfairy]

I find that the very best middle layer for cage liners is zorb. It is expensive so I use it inside smaller pads that I put under hides.

I use mattress protectors inside two layers of fleece as cage liners which work well. I have tried.a washable incontinance pad as an absorbent layer. It works well but Infind itna bit heavy and stiff.

I dont use any waterproof layers. My cage sits on two tables and I put correx down as the floor with newspaper on top, just under the cage liners. I rarely need to change the newspapers.

My girls mainly wee in their hay area.

 

[rome_italy]

... and if you want to save money, there is another option totally free: you can male three layers this way
1- old towels (just for having a soft and thick floor)
2- newspapers/flyers from supermarkets
3- a piece of fleece
Every day you need to remove the fleece, shake it on the floor, remove the wet newspapers (I actually find them dry because of the air conditioning in the piggies room which dries most of the papers off).
The towels remain clean and dry.
I add some pictures

 

[Reenie]

I use a towel under fleece, and sweep up poops twice a day. I left the cage for 5 days this time (bad mummy), and there were hardly many wee marks on the towels. I have a litter tray lined with newspaper under their hay rack and it's soaked every day, so I think they're pretty much litter trained. I even saw Chicco run up, wee hint the tray and run away again without eating any hay. (So proud of my boy!)

 

[Reenie]

Wee IN the tray, not hint! Autocorrect is a pain

 

[Talulah]

I use a picnic blanket as a base when G&N are in their indoor pLay pen as it's only for a few hours. On clean up I usually hang it on the washing line for a few hours to give it an airing. Even better if it's raining.

Wouldn't be good as a permenant base though