The unmentioned problems with cages.

[Lorcan]

The more you try not to drop it all...

 

[Betsy]

That's what a hoover is for @Lorcan.

 

[Lorcan]

That's what a hoover is for @Lorcan.

There's even more of it on me! I may or may not have dropped the pack on myself at one point with the open side down

 

[weepweeps]

It gets everywhere

 

[Claire W]

Oops! That’s what my piggy room looks like on cage cleaning days

 

[alpacasqueak]

Mine is far messier than that on a daily basis with blooming hay everywhere! My own fault for no correx sides!
Actually no, Luigi’s, as he chews everything he shouldn’t the gorgeous beast!

 

[Lorcan]

Tbh my kitchen floor looks just as bad right now because I was shaking off some of the fleece downstairs. And since I live alone and there's nobody else to complain I kinda want to leave it there til I've shaken off all the fleece needing washed just to see how big the pile gets. Am I weird? Yes, yes I am.

 

[YvonneBlue]

Our spare room looks like this a lot of the time. I sweep the hay up about 10 times a day when i work from home and it just reappears. I think the piggies throw it out of the cage when i go to get a coffee. They all look so innocent but i think inside they are laughing at me.

 

[Lorcan]

I'm looking forward til the warmer weather because I should be able to move them downstairs for a few months. We're south facing here so it'll be better for them then, but mostly I want them on the floor I can sweep up instead of hoover!

 

[PigglePuggle]

Tbh my kitchen floor looks just as bad right now because I was shaking off some of the fleece downstairs. And since I live alone and there's nobody else to complain I kinda want to leave it there til I've shaken off all the fleece needing washed just to see how big the pile gets. Am I weird? Yes, yes I am.

Not weird at all, my piggy cages get a full clean twice a week and a daily poop scoop but my carpets... sometimes only get cleaned if I'm having visitors!
I was thinking this about waterbottles too- piggy water bottles, scrupulously cleaned out twice every week, rinsed a refilled daily, my own water bottle... when it tastes like a fish tank? Coffee cup... when there are caffeine crazed lifeforms visible?

 

[Lorcan]

That's not including the stuff that somehow ended up in the lounge. The fleece was not in the lounge.

 

[weepweeps]

It will be in your bed soon enough.

 

[PigglePuggle]

It will be in your bed soon enough.

That's often my cue to vacuum clean the carpets, hay and poop on my socks trailing into bed!

 

[Lorcan]

I don't know why I'm laughing at any of this, it's not like I'm going to escape it happening lol.

 

[weepweeps]

I don't know why I'm laughing at any of this, it's not like I'm going to escape it happening lol.

There’s no escape. Just acceptance.

 

[PigglePuggle]

At least with hippos you won't get the floof fur, I have no idea how floof fur always turns up in the butter and stuck to the top of the ketchup bottle but... it does!

 

[Flutterby]

I've given up trying to keep everything pristine with the animals lol

 

[Lorcan]

I've given up trying to keep everything pristine with the animals lol

"Eh, I'll do it tomorrow" has become a regular thought where the carpet's concerned (and it only took 2 weeks )

 

[eileen]

i had carpet in my piggie room,but hay and bedding stick to it like glue.now ive placed cushioned flooring in there,its so much easier to sweep up.still looks like an extention of a farm !

 

[Lorcan]

now ive placed cushioned flooring in there,its so much easier to sweep up.still looks like an extention of a farm !

It's newer carpet in that room than anywhere else in the house too I may end up looking for some lino offcuts at some point and just chucking them on the floor, between the carpet and the correx.

 

[Engel]

Ah it's not that bad, totally seen worse