Puppy Pads

[Flamestriker]

I am using cheap puppy pads, and although they are great in the pen, they are not so great in the cage.

I clean and replace the pads in the pen every two days but I clean the cage every week and the pads are saturated. I am thinking of going to fleece for the new C&C cage I'm having delivered next week, which will enable me to change the pads in the cage easier mid week.

But for the time being I'm using Aubiose and pads. In your experience, what are the best puppy pads to use? If I'm going to use fleece, I need them to mask smells as well. Actually, does fleece smell as it wicks away piggy wee? Surely it's still found to smell?

So far I have been using different combinations of Aubiose, Fitch, puppy pads, and newspaper. And I'm still not happy. Sigh.

 

[DM030819]

I use ones called Simple Solution as you can get them in boxes of 100 for about £22.

My cage is fleece but with a hay area at each end. That's were mine gets soaking wet and stinky if I don't clean it often. My boys like to pee right in the corners so I clean that out every couple of days.

Some of the cheaper pads tend to disintegrate when they get wet but the Simple Solutions ones stay in one piece and are pretty easy to roll up.

 

[*kate*]

I buy my puppy pads from B&M, best one's I have found! £12.99 for 100. I change them as soon as they have a few wee's on them so get through a fair few!

I can't be bothered with washing fleece though so pads suit me much better. I have a piece of vetbed in each bed and it annoys me having to wash just that everyday!

 

[Adelle]

I buy my puppy pads from B&M, best one's I have found! £12.99 for 100. I change them as soon as they have a few wee's on them so get through a fair few!

I can't be bothered with washing fleece though so pads suit me much better. I have a piece of vetbed in each bed and it annoys me having to wash just that everyday!

Iv found b&m have been the best quality too and ironically the cheapest. Iv tried loads of others and they where thin and flmsy!
I use vet bed with ppads underneath, i change the pads daily in high traffic areas and change the lot every 3 days

 

[Flamestriker]

I get the ones from Pethut which I use in the pen. That is changed every 2 days, depending how long the piggies are in there for.

I will be trying the puppy pads fromB&M next

I use others from Amazon for the cage. I was thinking of simply using the pads in the C&C cage without fleece but are they soft enough for their feet? They will be on pads in the cage and in the run then constantly.

 

[eileen]

I use puppy pads from B&m stores and have found them best ,i have also place megasorb in areas of high traffic,use aubiose over the top,then no smell,hardly any urine onto pads .thats after seven days,with four piggies in the hutch.i have also used "cage liners"type this into uk amazon site,they have large disposable pads that are polythene backing,so no splitting of pad,aubiose keeps any smells away until you do a full cage clean.

 

[Mackers]

I think I've tried almost every type of bedding there is for piggies! My personal favourite is Zorb lined liners with Zorb lined piddle pads in the high use areas. It's by far the easiest for cleaning and the least smelly. It's nice and heavy and doesn't move when you sweep it or use the Dyson on it. I change the piddle pads daily (or every 2 days if they're not too grotty) and then the main liner once a week. The piggies also have a hay tray filled with Megazorb and covered with hay. The hay is changed daily and the megazorb gets the wet areas scooped out every day or two days and replaced with dry, then the whole lot changed with the new liner once a week.

I found loose fleece to be a complete nightmare. You couldn't sweep it because it moved or got sucked up the hoover, the pigges moved it about and it STANK! The absorbant layer under the fleece was puppy pads or washable incontinence pads. Puppy pads are fine, but you get through a lot of them. I use both B&M ones and the Pet Hut - both seem to be about the same quality. But they do need changing daily as they don't hold a lot of liquid.

Fitch is lovely and soft and absorbant BUT you can't spot clean it and I couldn't bare looking at poops that I couldn't sweep up without binning a whole load of perfectly dry Fitch. Aubiose is very, very good at draining fluid through to the underneath BUT you still need a good absorbant layer under it, otherwise you'll just have fluid sitting at the bottom. Good old fashioned newspaper and hay is pretty good, but of course, the newspaper gets wet very quickly and you need a good supply of it to cover a large cage. Hay also stinks as soon as it gets wet. Megazorb is too light and dusty to be used 'naked' and has to be covered with hay. But it is the most absorbant and stink-free substrate that I've used so I use it in all my bunny and piggy litter trays (covered with a good amount of hay).

 

[eileen]

I think I've tried almost every type of bedding there is for piggies! My personal favourite is Zorb lined liners with Zorb lined piddle pads in the high use areas. It's by far the easiest for cleaning and the least smelly. It's nice and heavy and doesn't move when you sweep it or use the Dyson on it. I change the piddle pads daily (or every 2 days if they're not too grotty) and then the main liner once a week. The piggies also have a hay tray filled with Megazorb and covered with hay. The hay is changed daily and the megazorb gets the wet areas scooped out every day or two days and replaced with dry, then the whole lot changed with the new liner once a week.

I found loose fleece to be a complete nightmare. You couldn't sweep it because it moved or got sucked up the hoover, the pigges moved it about and it STANK! The absorbant layer under the fleece was puppy pads or washable incontinence pads. Puppy pads are fine, but you get through a lot of them. I use both B&M ones and the Pet Hut - both seem to be about the same quality. But they do need changing daily as they don't hold a lot of liquid.

Fitch is lovely and soft and absorbant BUT you can't spot clean it and I couldn't bare looking at poops that I couldn't sweep up without binning a whole load of perfectly dry Fitch. Aubiose is very, very good at draining fluid through to the underneath BUT you still need a good absorbant layer under it, otherwise you'll just have fluid sitting at the bottom. Good old fashioned newspaper and hay is pretty good, but of course, the newspaper gets wet very quickly and you need a good supply of it to cover a large cage. Hay also stinks as soon as it gets wet. Megazorb is too light and dusty to be used 'naked' and has to be covered with hay. But it is the most absorbant and stink-free substrate that I've used so I use it in all my bunny and piggy litter trays (covered with a good amount of hay).

with most of what Mackers has stated .especially the megazorb,i found if you use a thin layer of megasorb with aubiose on the top you do not get fluid at bottom of cage/hutch/puppypads.x