Anyone using pine pellet bedding on plastic bottom cage?

[ckcs]

I'm a big fan of the pine pellets for a bedding material. I use it on all my wire bottom cage pans and in litter pans that are in some of my plastic bottom cages. Has anyone used the bedding on a plastic bottom cage? I have one rabbit that is in a plastic bottom cage and they don't use a litter box. Currently I just lay newspaper in the corner she pees in. I'd like to just fill the bottom of her cage with pine pellet and then scoop out the wet stuff every few days instead of use the newspaper. The newspaper doesn't do much for smell.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

I have a 100 gallon aquarium that I use as a quarantine cage occasionally, and I always use pine bedding in it. I generally don't remove the pee spots but just mix it around. Once it dries it doesn't really smell, and it is softer than the intact pellets.

 

[ckcs]

I have a 100 gallon aquarium that I use as a quarantine cage occasionally, and I always use pine bedding in it. I generally don't remove the pee spots but just mix it around. Once it dries it doesn't really smell, and it is softer than the intact pellets.

That is a very good idea. I clean our 15 cages every 4-5 days (doing several each day). I'll give it a shot tomorrow when I clean hers.

 

[akane]

If you don't wet it down some in to fluffy bedding it is rather loud when they run across it and dig.

 

[Miss M]

Before we put a wire floor in his carrier, Pinto was on a mixture of pine pellets and pine shavings. We still use that mix, just under the wire floor we put in for him.

For horses, you wet it and mix it until it breaks down into sawdust. You can do this, or do it like MSD. I did it like MSD in my litter boxes when I used them.