Carefresh Sea Glass Natural Paper Pet Bedding, 50 L

We have three male guinea pigs. They pee and poop and the worst part is the pee! We have tried shavings. Yuck. We currently use fleece bedding for them which has to be changed and washed every 4 days or the ammonia smell gets terrible. We are having neighbors watch them for 7 days while we go away and I thought, there is no way the piggies can live in smell and filth for that long and no way am I going to ask the neighbors to do a full cage clean out.
After much review I decided to give the CareFresh guinea pig and rabbit bedding a try based solely on the reviews. Oh my gosh. It’s like an answer to my prayers. First of all the guinea pigs really really like this bedding. And second they now intentionally go to pee and poop in the one corner almost consistently! Now the big test: absorption and smell. I am into day 3 and so far there is no ammonia smell!! I go in at least every night or every 2nd day and scoop out the “wet” part of the bedding in the corner where they pee. There’s not much, maybe one or two handfuls and I then replace it with a few handfuls of fresh bedding. I also have a puppy pee pad underneath the bedding but so far that hasn’t even gotten wet.

I am very impressed with this bedding and I think that as far as the rest of their cage goes it won’t need a full cage clean out for at least 10 days. Hallelujah!

Good product

A mi hamster le encanta hace nidos y se duerme muy a gusto es muy absorbente yrinde mucho

1s time purchase. The product is compact and firm when delivered. Recently do a spring clean for the hamster. Should be acceptable and good.

Was soft and absorbent. Not a lot of odor control and can be pricey if you have multiple pets.
Worked well for our single bunny.

I really like Carefresh for my rodents, and I miss the old type that was more chunky than the Complete is now because it seemed to hold the urine better. So I was really excited about the Custom. This is a really good product, and I can see it being great for animals that burrow and need to build up a nest. I thought that my chinchillas and guinea pig would do well with it (they don’t eat it, fortunately). This product holds the urine very, very well because there are huge chunks in it, some of which were as large as 5” across and about 1/2” thick. Unfortunately, I found that this was too chunky for the open cage floor but really great for a litterbox (which my chins have, but my guinea pig does not). I didn’t have to change the litter as often in the litterbox. But my pets tended to push the litter chunks aside on the cage floor and shelves, and then they would wet the bare floor and shelving instead.

In the end, I really wanted to be able to use this product. However, I found that it was too chunky for my set-up with more open space than nesting area. I wish there were something in-between Complete and Custom. So, I think that I will get the Carefresh Complete (white so I can see if there are urinary problems) on a regular basis, and perhaps an occasional bag of the Custom for the litterbox.

This is the perfect bedding for a small animal! There is no odor to it. There is no dust for them to have to inhale, being that they live in this. It is very absorbent, and really easy to remove. Love all the colors, too!