I been watching you for 2 year been wanting a hamster for 5 I'm now 12 turning 13 next month and been saving up for a hamster so thank you for educating me
@Cailin McKenna is 2000sq inches width and length of the base unbroken and not including tunnels, tubes etc? Did you mean inches because they need at least 6 inches but ideally 10 or more
I mix clean and cozy and aspen in my detolf and 2 bin cages and all 3 hammies seem to love it! Since the clean and cozy is very warm and the aspen keeps the smell down and helps hold burrows 😁
Same here. I feel like the aspen helps hold his burrows together better than with just the clean & cozy. I just sprinkle in a bit on one side and mix it in then on the other side I just have clean & cozy.
I've been using paper pellets with baking soda as a base layer too absorb urine and odors in conjunction with kiln dried pine and it's horrible! I 🤔 think I'm allergic too the pine but possibly too the rodents urine or dander in their hair 🤧! All be a using dust 😷 mask and shop vac too vaccum aquarium out and then sterilizing cage inside and out with disinfectant cleaner... I'm going too try Carefresh and or Kaytee bedding and possibly Aspen mixed with it... If nothing improves all be forced too get rid of they as my health is far more important than keeping rodents as pets...
I use shredded toilet paper. My cage is 500sq bin cage. Roborovski. Huuuge sand bath (reptile sand) and hideout in it. 8 inch wheel. Orchard grass hay. Tons of wooden toys. Millet sprays. Variety seed mix only 1 or 2 pellets. Ik people will say my cage is too small but Im rly trying my best to upgrade it.
for the sinking hides issue.. I ordered on Amazon a pack of wooden dowels, I got some that are 3 inches and some that are I think 5 inches high and I use a non-toxic wood glue to glue them to the bottom of all of my multi chamber hides houses all the heavier things that are in my habitat that way they have legs on them so even when the hamster burrows underneath they won't sink.
I use one layer of Yesterday’s News cat litter for my mice. On top of that I put a bunch of Clean and Cozy. Works wonderful. Also use the cat litter for my rabbit Nancy Rose. When I have hamsters, I use the Clean and cozy.
UK here, at first I used the confetti carefresh in my detolf but I wanted to change to a more natural color to make spot cleaning easier, so I ended up getting the Carefresh natural bedding and boy that was a big mistake on my part, I had it in the cage for 2 days, the smell was horrendous, and not only had my hamster started to get a sore on his paw but I also had started to itch constantly, the dust was everywhere. Thankfully I got it out in time and it's not caused any further issues, a lot of work getting rid of all the dust though. Now I use something called Fitch First bedding that you can get over here, it's soft, white, dust free, zero smell and is so cost effective, it even comes bales, so if any of you are in the UK give them a look, the people in the shop there are so friendly and will let you see what it's like before you buy, or you can buy small amounts online to test.
THANK YOU for talking about how kiln dried pine isn't safer! I was always put off by people claiming that it was okay just because of how it was dried.
To keep my wheels from toppling over or getting stuck in the bedding I placed a 6"x8" ceramic tile on the cage floor, turned over so the wheel sits on the rougher side and this works perfectly.
Oh, and with wheels, I always attach the base to the TOP of my cage or screen top of tank. I use zip ties or twisty ties and after tightening them, cut off the little ends. In that way, my gerbils don't chew the foundation and it never falls over.
I remember stumbling onto your channel YEARS ago, and I loved listening to your earnest rant about the really cheap BAD pet store hamster cages. Now, I’m doing research with my little sister so she can get a robo dwarf a few months from now. She’s so excited and I’m so glad I feel like I got the inside scoop on bedding, thanks to you!
I love using a huge variety of different substrates. My main is generally a mix of 1/3 Aspen & 2/3 Natural paper from Small Pet Select, with teabag bedding for nesting materials. Then I have different areas with megazorb, different aspen, hemp, sand, soil. I also like to see what's on sale in my local small pet shop as they occasionally have in carefresh which I also like to mix in ❤️
I use teabag bedding. For money it's really good because I buy it 2x10kg bags for £25. Which is alot cheaper than the popular bedding. And both of my hamsters have loved it.
Im currently using brown carefresh, blue carefresh, white all living things, white kaytee clean and cozy, orchard grass hay, Timothy hay, and snake aspen for my lil dwarf hamster.
9:50 I have this type of bedding for all my Syrian hammies and mice🐹 (the bedding is really expensive here. It’s like €10,- and i got like 8 packs because the hamsters have a really big terrarium) I started my own little rescue. I got 2 wounded Syrian hamsters but they are doing so much better now after a week. I will find a loving home for them when they can go away
I use both kaytee and caresh. You always are gonna get particles in products i believe. I havent seen one product that doesnt do that. Because it all is compacted and the material always has particles while it being prepared
I just finished deep cleaning Sir Hambert's enclosure. I use carefresh and mix in a few handfuls of soft Rodipet hay because it also helps a bit with the structure. Then a mix of tp and soft shredded paper for nesting. And some of Rodipets dried flower and herb bedding toppers.
hi a suggestion fr videos you can do a reacting to your subscriber's hamster,gerbils and mice cages. I will defenttally watch it to see what you need to say.
Yeah!I support this idea,it would be great for us to send pictures to her through Email or something,and we could see what things we could improve in our cages.
I shred paper and tissue for my hamsters. They seem to like it and I haven’t noticed any problems with it so far, but I have only been using it for about a month. Before I was using megasorb, which was good but quite expensive when I have three hamsters who all use big bunches of bedding. Also- I used to use wood shavings because I couldn’t find anything else, then my friend recommended megasorb. Megasorb is good if you don’t have a paper shredder/enough paper to shred. I’m pretty sure you can get like 80 litres of bedding for £13. Although on Facebook marketplace, you can get paper shredders for super cheap, and napkins/notebooks can be bought at Poundland for cheap as well.
I like to use a hemp, kaytee and hay mix as bedding for my mice as it’s safe, absorbent, makes good burrows and hemp is very affordable. At the moment though I can’t find hemp bedding anywhere so I’m using kiln dried, dust extracted pine in its place. It’s definitely better for odour control but doesn’t seem good for burrowing and whilst I haven’t seen any negative affects from it on my mice I will switch back to hemp as soon as it becomes available just to be safe. Paper bedding alone is unsuitable for mice as it allows ammonia levels to get high too quickly and mice have super delicate respiratory systems.
here in my country there is an awesome brand of aspen its so soft and absorbs whell and it hold burroe CREDIBLE ASPEN SEARCH IT CREDIBLE ASPEN ITS GOOD
I use selected, I thankfully have not had an issue...I use their aspen and their bleached paper bedding and it has worked well for my hammy and I. The first time I opened the aspen it tickled my nose but after that one time it was fine.
My mouse was allergic to paper bedding so I use aspen. I use the brand LivingWorld and get it a bunch cheaper off Amazon. Not dusty and good sized pieces. I periodically add lots of toilet paper shreds around his cage for his to use in his burrows and hides as proper cushiony bedding. He seems really happy with that!
I got some Aspen for my mice. It had some large, hard pieces of wood with sharp edges in it and I was afraid my mice would get hurt so I stick to paper bedding now.
I like clean and cozy but I use it in the living room and the dust bothered my rabbit who has a dust allergy.. I tried to shake it out through a sieve like I do the carefresh but it wasn't helping enough. We can not use any of the wood shavings as they have all bothered my sons asthma.. So we are kind of stuck with just one type of bedding. Thanks for the great information I had seen the type of bedding you no longer use and was wondering about it.. you have saved me some money and more importantly some possible injuries to my fur babies and I.
Hi munchie! I started my own small animal rescue in the UK 🇬🇧! I am going to be starting a youtube channel about them very soon. They have only recently started selling carefresh in the uk but I've noticed it's a bit dusty so I try to stick to aspen and kaytee clean n cozy 😃
Very informative for hamster owners. I think it would have been even more helpful to mention that when purchasing paper bedding it may be a good idea to freeze it before use to avoid mites or other bugs during processing, shipping, storage, etc. I also wanted to mention that there is another brand of paper bedding I use called Uber.
I have used the white pet select bedding and never had a problem with a strong chemical smell. 🤔 you may have just got a bad batch. I also buy directly from their website rather than amazon. I haven't had any issues with the bedding themselves but when some shipping issues happened they had great customer service. (Not sponsored by them lol just a user of it)
Actually I've had more issues with a strong/off smell with the All Living Things brand bedding. I've noticed too a couple times the bedding was kinda moist. Returned it right away!
I haven’t used the white, but I have used the brown one from their actual site for a couple of years and I too have never had an issue with their bedding or anything I ever bought from them (also not sponsored). And same with if had any shipping issues they instantly sorted it free of charge. Sounds dangerous the one poor Munchie got. Hope that doesn’t happen to anyone else .
I use kaytee in winter to keep my little hammies warm and summer wood pellets and I’m planning on using tea bag bedding as it’s looser/more airy, cause I find kaytee makes it really sweaty and gross in summer!
I’ve always used carefresh bedding for Guinea pigs when I use to have guinea pigs I had to rehome two of my guinea pigs do to my seasonal allergies last year.and one of my Guinea pigs died a few years ago and I plan on using carefresh for the gerbils that I’m going to be getting. Ill be a first time gerbil owner this year.and I have autism so i hope that my autism won’t bother the gerbils.because I make sounds without realizing it I beep a lot without realizing that I’m doing it it’s apart of who I am since I have autism and I’m 27 1/2 I’ll be 28 on March 29th. And I love your videos munchie.I find your videos very helpful.
@@kyiacassidy thanks but I’m getting gerbils because I don’t want to get guinea pigs again because I felt like I failed the guinea pigs I rehomed because I wasn’t all there and wasn’t myself after I lost my guinea pig named chip and I ended up rehiring my guinea pigs gizmo and snickers because I couldn’t care for them do to my allergies and because I wasn’t myself so I did what I felt was best for them was to rehome them. And the humane society that I had my mom take them to told my mom I was doing a bad job taking care of the guinea pigs.and that really made me go down hill for a long time Untill now So I desided to get gerbils for a change. I also have autism.
Same here, I get good, bad,and okish bedding! It’s a hit or miss, And I have got the hard pieces in the bedding as well I called them, but they never reimbursed me I was so uncomfortable with putting that in my Trixie‘s enclosure.
This year marks 10 years since I had my last hamster. Most of that time I was in college and couldn't have one in a dorm room. That doesn't mean that I am not into hamster care videos.
I use carefresh for my guinea pigs and rats until I can get them some fleece liners and it holds up for my rats but not so much the guinea pigs but I do weekly cage cleanings and daily spot cleaning for both of them If I had a hamster, I would use the clean and cozy and the carefresh combined because it seems like a nice blend to use
I use Living World Pine Bedding for my two female mice! I know it's pine but when me and my dad looked at the pet store and we could NOT find any other!
I am also using paper bedding. However, the one I am using does not come from a commercial brand, but rather homemade. I bought a shredder for 30 €, and it allows me to schreed kitchen tissue paper, which has many benefits over commercial bedding. Among other benefits, it is almost dust-free, it is lighter, it is allergy-free, it is also free of chemicals and nasty smells, it is readily available at all time, it needs far less paper used and wasted compared to commercial brands, easy to clean, allows them to "dive" into the paper directly (no need for them to burrow if they don't want to), and most importantly, it only cost around 3€ to fill up a 40 gallon tank (surprisingly cheap, compared to 20€-30€ I spend each time in the past). However, there is one disadvantage shared with commercial paper bedding: the paper lowers as time passes. In addition to paper, I am investigating into schreeded carton to combine both. I will try to get round to finding out how to get schreeded carton ;)
I mostly use Kaytee clean and cozy or carefresh natural with a mix of aspen and orchard grass hay. I tried all living things but the smell was way too strong to me so I’ve never gotten it again after that.
I'm saving up my money to buy a hamster(my mom agreed to buy me the cage)I already got the other things down like the food and that stuff,and I just needed information for the bedding,thank you for this information and I'll update on when I get him!
I have never used any kind of wood shavings for my hamsters. Whatever wood you are talking about, there's somebody who says that wood is dangerous for whatever reason. Fumes, texture, etc. I'm also afraid that they might get a splinter from wood shavings. Someone donated a big bag of pine to me but I won't use it for my hamsters. So I stick to paper and sometimes mix different brands. I will use some of the pine for my guinea pigs but it is mixed with paper. Wood is ultimately cheaper but I'm more concerned with their safety and comfort than my cost.
I like the natural clean & cozy over the fluffy one because you can easily see the pee and poo on top of the white bedding. It also smells a lot worse than the natural on in my opinion. Kaytee clean & cozy natural is the best bedding I've found.
Update for what bedding I use for my hamster coco I use kaytee clean and cozy carefresh and now I will be using aspen bedding which I have never tried before so I’m really excited to try aspen bedding and I’m getting Uber bedding haven’t used that ether so I’m excited to try but I have tried carefresh and clean and cozy but I will update this comment if I get different brands too of beddings so I wil update this comment if I get a different type of bedding but those are the bedding I use so far
Has anyone used aspen? What experiences have you had? I have a detolf so the majority of the enclosure is clean and cosy. I have a giant sand bath and a coco fiber section. I purchased some aspen so he could another section with a different texture but now im a little worried about splitters.
To me this is quite a surprise to hear with Small pet select bedding 0.0 never used the bleached white one, so I personally can’t say with that one what’s it’s like... but the brown bedding version I have never had an issue with in the last 2 years using it (but for my rabbits as their litter) I have a very high sensitive respiratory system and even the softest of scents set me off badly. Yet no issues with the brown bedding, it’s almost completely scentless as well as it’s very soft and fluffy compared to other care fresh I use. (I’m from the uk so I wonder if maybe the texture or type is different to the American one?). Sad to hear you’ve had bad experiences with them on multiple occasions, I hope one day that it will improve because that’s not safe if you can smell the bleach on it. But glad you at least have something that works well for you and your hammies and other small pets. Love what you do so much ❤️
The bleached clean and cozy gave my mouse horrible allergies and she itched her ears until she bleed :( ive taken out all bedding and im looving at ur vid to see what will work
My favorite bedding so far is rabbit hole hay premium white bedding. It’s got a lot less dust then all the others I’ve tried and I’ve tried a lot, Plus i no longer see dust on my hamsters and mice when they emerge from their tunnels
Hi really need help is bedding ok for mice!? It's called peckish. Here is the description: 100% natural untreated Norway Spruce and Silver Fir shavings. The bedding is machine-cleaned to be dust-free, hygienic and binds unpleasant odours.
I just had to purchase care fresh natural and it so hard compared to white Kaytee. 😭 I am going to start using both Here we also have some others like fitch (dusty), megazorb (very dusty) and finacard (the best they sell a variety but not super soft I also only use it for my gerbils.)
I looked into kiln dryer pine litter for my sugar gliders, but I did not get it because really small on the back of the package near the bottom, it said "Warning! May cause cancer!"
I had to toss 2 large carefresh white bedding. Smelled like chemicals. The odor was so strong and strange. Called chewy up and the refunded me. Ordered the kaytee natural. So much softer and no odor.
Hey munchie it's been forever sis it's jackman176 I have my old collection of pokemon cards complete wotc sets and I'm being redeployed in a month and have no use for them anymore so idk if you still collect them anymore but I want to send them to you for free just make a video about them give some to the fans and have fun you may not remember me but when I came across your channel I was in a bad place an we talked about cards and life and you were the friend I needed thank you for everything munch...
For whatever reason the carefresh bedding always feels strangely 'wet' and soggy to me. It doesn't mask the urine smell as good either, but you're right it definitely is more dense.
This is a really helpful video! Especially for new owners or owners that did some more research and are now trying to find an alternative to wood shavings. I use rather Kaytee and Carefresh. The first batch of Kaytee I got was fine but the second I found plastic and what looked like a shredded rubber glove in, so I went to Carefresh for a couple of years. I tried Kaytee again a few months ago and everything has been fine since. I noticed the hamsters seem to prefer Kaytee while the gerbils I had preferred Carefresh. While both are dusty like you said, I found Kaytee too dusty for my rats because they're very very sensitive to those kinda of things so I used a mixture of carefresh and soft 100% paper litter for them and they did great on it 🙂
The Kaytee Natural is great, no dust, the white is super dusty. I've had both. Kaytee likes to ship out their old stock and it drops the powder out of it like old toilet paper does if it sits around for a year. I will never ever buy their white bleach bedding again. The natural is great, not dusty
My both my hamsters HATE paper bedding😂 I have to use aspen or else they will get angry with me but I usually mix carefresh and aspen but they prefer just plain aspen
i always use kaytee clean and cozy. every bag of carefresh ive bought was extremely dry, and the last bag had an awful smell so i returned it. i wonder if they just have a crappy manufacturer for my area or something.
I was hoping at 11:04 you were going to say the wheel issue was that they burrow all the bedding under the wheel to the point it doesn’t spin lol. My hamster keeps doing that and then freaks out that his wheel won’t move 🤪
I hate when people say Munchie doesn't put enough bedding in the hamster's enclosures. They have to be understanding that she runs a rescue with a lot of animals so she has to try and conserve the bedding, as well as some types of bedding just compacts down easily, making it look like less than originally was put. Please be undetsuanding that whatever you do for your hamster may not work for her, and at the end of the day, she still promotes more bedding :) Maybe Im being too defensive but I just want people to understand this before they go and leave mean comments
Hey Munchie! I was watching one video and then this one started to play - and I'm really glad I ended up just letting it play because I was about to donate a large bag of Small Pet Select bedding from your Amazon wish list. If you aren't going to be using that brand of bedding anymore could you update your wish list??
Munchie I'm having issues with clean and cozy and carefresh for my mice what's going on I noticed with clean and cozy my mice eyes looked squinty and swollen a bit and with care fresh one started getting under her eye a little bit Dx so I switched to Aspen
I followed your channel my Syrian is eating your recommendation. I looking for winter white food. My Syrian for bedding she Kaytee aspen Chewy.com 113.3 litter mix Kaytee clean and cozy
what would be the best bedding forhamster? I do have access to hay and grass as im in germany, however my last hammy couldn't really dig well in it, unless something was on top, being "roof" for the tunnels
Hello my name is santos.I was wondering if you could do a cage review for me? I found the cage on Amazon. It is called Universal Small Animal Home, Pastorals Hamster Cat Ferret Cage Wire Pet Cage,Anti-Fall Portable Luxury Small Animal Home (Black). Thank you 😊
It's a shame that small pet select is gone that far down in quality. I used them all the time when I had guinea pigs. I was thinking about getting some for Midnight my hamster but I guess I won't. I wish I could use some aspen with my bedding since she loves tunneling but she's allergic.
I have 5 hamsters and 3 guinea pigs. 5 hamsters = 5 cages!! I just got my 1st male mouse (Milk Dud) I definitely need this video!! Are mice the same as hamster care? Besides food...i know their diet is different, but cage care..
I been watching you for 2 year been wanting a hamster for 5 I'm now 12 turning 13 next month and been saving up for a hamster so thank you for educating me
Wow, that’s so cool, I want to make a 2,000 DIY hamster cage!
@Cailin McKenna congratulations on the hamster 🐹
That’s awesome🙋🏻♀️🐹
It’s been a month so I hope you had/have an amazing birthday 🥳 I also hope you got an amazing healthy hamster
@Cailin McKenna is 2000sq inches width and length of the base unbroken and not including tunnels, tubes etc? Did you mean inches because they need at least 6 inches but ideally 10 or more
I mix clean and cozy and aspen in my detolf and 2 bin cages and all 3 hammies seem to love it! Since the clean and cozy is very warm and the aspen keeps the smell down and helps hold burrows 😁
exactly the same here, my ham lives in a detolf with aspen, i also a timothy hay
Same here. I feel like the aspen helps hold his burrows together better than with just the clean & cozy. I just sprinkle in a bit on one side and mix it in then on the other side I just have clean & cozy.
I use kaytee clean and cozy for my hamster, she loves burrowing in it🥰
Me too
Same
8:57 it was a nightmare to clean my hamsters cage. I sneezed the whole time and my nose was runny. It was just bad
I've been using paper pellets with baking soda as a base layer too absorb urine and odors in conjunction with kiln dried pine and it's horrible! I 🤔 think I'm allergic too the pine but possibly too the rodents urine or dander in their hair 🤧! All be a using dust 😷 mask and shop vac too vaccum aquarium out and then sterilizing cage inside and out with disinfectant cleaner... I'm going too try Carefresh and or Kaytee bedding and possibly Aspen mixed with it... If nothing improves all be forced too get rid of they as my health is far more important than keeping rodents as pets...
I us Katie's white and brown batting and all living things White and brown bedding as well those are only brands that I use
I use shredded toilet paper. My cage is 500sq bin cage. Roborovski. Huuuge sand bath (reptile sand) and hideout in it. 8 inch wheel. Orchard grass hay. Tons of wooden toys. Millet sprays. Variety seed mix only 1 or 2 pellets. Ik people will say my cage is too small but Im rly trying my best to upgrade it.
for the sinking hides issue.. I ordered on Amazon a pack of wooden dowels, I got some that are 3 inches and some that are I think 5 inches high and I use a non-toxic wood glue to glue them to the bottom of all of my multi chamber hides houses all the heavier things that are in my habitat that way they have legs on them so even when the hamster burrows underneath they won't sink.
I use one layer of Yesterday’s News cat litter for my mice. On top of that I put a bunch of Clean and Cozy. Works wonderful. Also use the cat litter for my rabbit Nancy Rose. When I have hamsters, I use the Clean and cozy.
I was just about to mention this strategy!
UK here, at first I used the confetti carefresh in my detolf but I wanted to change to a more natural color to make spot cleaning easier, so I ended up getting the Carefresh natural bedding and boy that was a big mistake on my part, I had it in the cage for 2 days, the smell was horrendous, and not only had my hamster started to get a sore on his paw but I also had started to itch constantly, the dust was everywhere.
Thankfully I got it out in time and it's not caused any further issues, a lot of work getting rid of all the dust though. Now I use something called Fitch First bedding that you can get over here, it's soft, white, dust free, zero smell and is so cost effective, it even comes bales, so if any of you are in the UK give them a look, the people in the shop there are so friendly and will let you see what it's like before you buy, or you can buy small amounts online to test.
THANK YOU for talking about how kiln dried pine isn't safer! I was always put off by people claiming that it was okay just because of how it was dried.
Hi is pine safe? I have pine it says kiln dried?
It says 100 percent wich. Is the best bedding on amazin
I ment wich is the best bedding on amazon
I use aspen and kaytee clean and cozy together
It works great
To keep my wheels from toppling over or getting stuck in the bedding I placed a 6"x8" ceramic tile on the cage floor, turned over so the wheel sits on the rougher side and this works perfectly.
Oh, and with wheels, I always attach the base to the TOP of my cage or screen top of tank. I use zip ties or twisty ties and after tightening them, cut off the little ends. In that way, my gerbils don't chew the foundation and it never falls over.
I remember stumbling onto your channel YEARS ago, and I loved listening to your earnest rant about the really cheap BAD pet store hamster cages. Now, I’m doing research with my little sister so she can get a robo dwarf a few months from now. She’s so excited and I’m so glad I feel like I got the inside scoop on bedding, thanks to you!
I love using a huge variety of different substrates. My main is generally a mix of 1/3 Aspen & 2/3 Natural paper from Small Pet Select, with teabag bedding for nesting materials. Then I have different areas with megazorb, different aspen, hemp, sand, soil. I also like to see what's on sale in my local small pet shop as they occasionally have in carefresh which I also like to mix in ❤️
i have sections of aspen, clean & cozy, reptile coconut fiber, and sand for both of my hamsters!
I’ve been wondering about the coconut fibers. Does your hamster like it?
I use teabag bedding.
For money it's really good because I buy it 2x10kg bags for £25. Which is alot cheaper than the popular bedding.
And both of my hamsters have loved it.
Im currently using brown carefresh, blue carefresh, white all living things, white kaytee clean and cozy, orchard grass hay, Timothy hay, and snake aspen for my lil dwarf hamster.
9:50 I have this type of bedding for all my Syrian hammies and mice🐹 (the bedding is really expensive here. It’s like €10,- and i got like 8 packs because the hamsters have a really big terrarium)
I started my own little rescue. I got 2 wounded Syrian hamsters but they are doing so much better now after a week. I will find a loving home for them when they can go away
Man, I was almost first.... My internet cut out when I was pulling it up¡¡ So MAD!!! Munchie is the best! She helped me so much!!
@Kenzi Jarrett sure does!!! I was so mad I screamed and therw my phone
I use both kaytee and caresh. You always are gonna get particles in products i believe. I havent seen one product that doesnt do that. Because it all is compacted and the material always has particles while it being prepared
I use both care fresh for where the hides and wheel are and clean and cozy in the rest for cotton to borrow in
I use aspen mixed with paper bedding during the winter and just paper during the summer because aspen/wood chips help with keeping heat.
I just finished deep cleaning Sir Hambert's enclosure. I use carefresh and mix in a few handfuls of soft Rodipet hay because it also helps a bit with the structure. Then a mix of tp and soft shredded paper for nesting. And some of Rodipets dried flower and herb bedding toppers.
My ham really likes the reptile aspen which is longer, thinner shavings. I use that and Carefresh.
hi a suggestion fr videos you can do a reacting to your subscriber's hamster,gerbils and mice cages. I will defenttally watch it to see what you need to say.
Yeah!I support this idea,it would be great for us to send pictures to her through Email or something,and we could see what things we could improve in our cages.
I shred paper and tissue for my hamsters. They seem to like it and I haven’t noticed any problems with it so far, but I have only been using it for about a month. Before I was using megasorb, which was good but quite expensive when I have three hamsters who all use big bunches of bedding.
Also- I used to use wood shavings because I couldn’t find anything else, then my friend recommended megasorb. Megasorb is good if you don’t have a paper shredder/enough paper to shred. I’m pretty sure you can get like 80 litres of bedding for £13. Although on Facebook marketplace, you can get paper shredders for super cheap, and napkins/notebooks can be bought at Poundland for cheap as well.
Bedding tip: if you want to use CareFresh buy it from petsmart at black Friday. You can get two 60 liter bags for $20
oo thx for the tip I want to buy carefresh because of its colors but it can be quite expensive.
I like to use a hemp, kaytee and hay mix as bedding for my mice as it’s safe, absorbent, makes good burrows and hemp is very affordable.
At the moment though I can’t find hemp bedding anywhere so I’m using kiln dried, dust extracted pine in its place. It’s definitely better for odour control but doesn’t seem good for burrowing and whilst I haven’t seen any negative affects from it on my mice I will switch back to hemp as soon as it becomes available just to be safe.
Paper bedding alone is unsuitable for mice as it allows ammonia levels to get high too quickly and mice have super delicate respiratory systems.
here in my country there is an awesome brand of aspen its so soft and absorbs whell and it hold burroe CREDIBLE ASPEN SEARCH IT CREDIBLE ASPEN ITS GOOD
I use selected, I thankfully have not had an issue...I use their aspen and their bleached paper bedding and it has worked well for my hammy and I. The first time I opened the aspen it tickled my nose but after that one time it was fine.
I use kaytee clean and cozy bedding and carefresh
Hey munchie, I just want to say that I use kaytee aspen mixed with all living things paper bedding
Same
Always excited for your new videos 😌🙌🏽
If you order the Kaytee aspen shavings from Chewy you can get a giant bag! I order it for my guinea pigs. It’s a 226.5L bag for around $30.
Thank you for this video!
My mouse was allergic to paper bedding so I use aspen. I use the brand LivingWorld and get it a bunch cheaper off Amazon. Not dusty and good sized pieces. I periodically add lots of toilet paper shreds around his cage for his to use in his burrows and hides as proper cushiony bedding. He seems really happy with that!
I got some Aspen for my mice. It had some large, hard pieces of wood with sharp edges in it and I was afraid my mice would get hurt so I stick to paper bedding now.
I have a Degu and I use saw dust and hay for her cage.
Sunseed fresh world bedding the best bedding out there for mice. I could go 10 days between full cleans without any odor for my two female mice.
I like clean and cozy but I use it in the living room and the dust bothered my rabbit who has a dust allergy.. I tried to shake it out through a sieve like I do the carefresh but it wasn't helping enough. We can not use any of the wood shavings as they have all bothered my sons asthma.. So we are kind of stuck with just one type of bedding. Thanks for the great information I had seen the type of bedding you no longer use and was wondering about it.. you have saved me some money and more importantly some possible injuries to my fur babies and I.
Hi munchie! I started my own small animal rescue in the UK 🇬🇧! I am going to be starting a youtube channel about them very soon. They have only recently started selling carefresh in the uk but I've noticed it's a bit dusty so I try to stick to aspen and kaytee clean n cozy 😃
Very informative for hamster owners. I think it would have been even more helpful to mention that when purchasing paper bedding it may be a good idea to freeze it before use to avoid mites or other bugs during processing, shipping, storage, etc. I also wanted to mention that there is another brand of paper bedding I use called Uber.
I have used the white pet select bedding and never had a problem with a strong chemical smell. 🤔 you may have just got a bad batch. I also buy directly from their website rather than amazon. I haven't had any issues with the bedding themselves but when some shipping issues happened they had great customer service. (Not sponsored by them lol just a user of it)
Actually I've had more issues with a strong/off smell with the All Living Things brand bedding. I've noticed too a couple times the bedding was kinda moist. Returned it right away!
I haven’t used the white, but I have used the brown one from their actual site for a couple of years and I too have never had an issue with their bedding or anything I ever bought from them (also not sponsored). And same with if had any shipping issues they instantly sorted it free of charge.
Sounds dangerous the one poor Munchie got. Hope that doesn’t happen to anyone else .
I use kaytee in winter to keep my little hammies warm and summer wood pellets and I’m planning on using tea bag bedding as it’s looser/more airy, cause I find kaytee makes it really sweaty and gross in summer!
I have ordered teabag bedding for the first time and am really curious on how different it will be to my usual (kaytee) bedding!😅🤔
I currently mix Kaytee and Aspen for Little Man's bedding. I think next time I'm going to add some Carefresh to the mix 😁 By the way, love your shirt!
I’ve always used carefresh bedding for Guinea pigs when I use to have guinea pigs I had to rehome two of my guinea pigs do to my seasonal allergies last year.and one of my Guinea pigs died a few years ago and I plan on using carefresh for the gerbils that I’m going to be getting. Ill be a first time gerbil owner this year.and I have autism so i hope that my autism won’t bother the gerbils.because I make sounds without realizing it I beep a lot without realizing that I’m doing it it’s apart of who I am since I have autism and I’m 27 1/2 I’ll be 28 on March 29th. And I love your videos munchie.I find your videos very helpful.
If you do get guinea pigs again I suggest you use fleece because it's reusable and cheep
@@kyiacassidy thanks but I’m getting gerbils because I don’t want to get guinea pigs again because I felt like I failed the guinea pigs I rehomed because I wasn’t all there and wasn’t myself after I lost my guinea pig named chip and I ended up rehiring my guinea pigs gizmo and snickers because I couldn’t care for them do to my allergies and because I wasn’t myself so I did what I felt was best for them was to rehome them. And the humane society that I had my mom take them to told my mom I was doing a bad job taking care of the guinea pigs.and that really made me go down hill for a long time Untill now So I desided to get gerbils for a change. I also have autism.
Same here, I get good, bad,and okish bedding! It’s a hit or miss, And I have got the hard pieces in the bedding as well I called them, but they never reimbursed me I was so uncomfortable with putting that in my Trixie‘s enclosure.
This year marks 10 years since I had my last hamster. Most of that time I was in college and couldn't have one in a dorm room. That doesn't mean that I am not into hamster care videos.
Thank you so much for this video, I look forward to mixing a few of these for my future gerbils!
I use carefresh for my guinea pigs and rats until I can get them some fleece liners and it holds up for my rats but not so much the guinea pigs but I do weekly cage cleanings and daily spot cleaning for both of them
If I had a hamster, I would use the clean and cozy and the carefresh combined because it seems like a nice blend to use
I use Living World Pine Bedding for my two female mice!
I know it's pine but when me and my dad looked at the pet store and we could NOT find any other!
Yea what he said ^ ☹️
I am also using paper bedding. However, the one I am using does not come from a commercial brand, but rather homemade. I bought a shredder for 30 €, and it allows me to schreed kitchen tissue paper, which has many benefits over commercial bedding. Among other benefits, it is almost dust-free, it is lighter, it is allergy-free, it is also free of chemicals and nasty smells, it is readily available at all time, it needs far less paper used and wasted compared to commercial brands, easy to clean, allows them to "dive" into the paper directly (no need for them to burrow if they don't want to), and most importantly, it only cost around 3€ to fill up a 40 gallon tank (surprisingly cheap, compared to 20€-30€ I spend each time in the past). However, there is one disadvantage shared with commercial paper bedding: the paper lowers as time passes. In addition to paper, I am investigating into schreeded carton to combine both. I will try to get round to finding out how to get schreeded carton ;)
Just got schooled about bedding... Please share more knowledge!!!
I mostly use Kaytee clean and cozy or carefresh natural with a mix of aspen and orchard grass hay. I tried all living things but the smell was way too strong to me so I’ve never gotten it again after that.
I hate the carefresh I love the kaytee clean & cozy ❤
I'm saving up my money to buy a hamster(my mom agreed to buy me the cage)I already got the other things down like the food and that stuff,and I just needed information for the bedding,thank you for this information and I'll update on when I get him!
I find carefresh and kaytee clean and cozy. Carefresh is better at holding up borrows and kaytee is softer
I have never used any kind of wood shavings for my hamsters. Whatever wood you are talking about, there's somebody who says that wood is dangerous for whatever reason. Fumes, texture, etc. I'm also afraid that they might get a splinter from wood shavings. Someone donated a big bag of pine to me but I won't use it for my hamsters. So I stick to paper and sometimes mix different brands. I will use some of the pine for my guinea pigs but it is mixed with paper. Wood is ultimately cheaper but I'm more concerned with their safety and comfort than my cost.
I like the natural clean & cozy over the fluffy one because you can easily see the pee and poo on top of the white bedding. It also smells a lot worse than the natural on in my opinion. Kaytee clean & cozy natural is the best bedding I've found.
Update for what bedding I use for my hamster coco I use kaytee clean and cozy carefresh and now I will be using aspen bedding which I have never tried before so I’m really excited to try aspen bedding and I’m getting Uber bedding haven’t used that ether so I’m excited to try but I have tried carefresh and clean and cozy but I will update this comment if I get different brands too of beddings so I wil update this comment if I get a different type of bedding but those are the bedding I use so far
Personally I like using mostly kaytee clean and cozy mixed with a tiny bit of hay
Has anyone used aspen? What experiences have you had? I have a detolf so the majority of the enclosure is clean and cosy. I have a giant sand bath and a coco fiber section. I purchased some aspen so he could another section with a different texture but now im a little worried about splitters.
A tip is when your putting the bedding in the cage push it down and add more so when the hamsters walking on it the amount of size is still good
To me this is quite a surprise to hear with Small pet select bedding 0.0 never used the bleached white one, so I personally can’t say with that one what’s it’s like... but the brown bedding version I have never had an issue with in the last 2 years using it (but for my rabbits as their litter) I have a very high sensitive respiratory system and even the softest of scents set me off badly. Yet no issues with the brown bedding, it’s almost completely scentless as well as it’s very soft and fluffy compared to other care fresh I use. (I’m from the uk so I wonder if maybe the texture or type is different to the American one?). Sad to hear you’ve had bad experiences with them on multiple occasions, I hope one day that it will improve because that’s not safe if you can smell the bleach on it. But glad you at least have something that works well for you and your hammies and other small pets.
Love what you do so much ❤️
The bleached clean and cozy gave my mouse horrible allergies and she itched her ears until she bleed :( ive taken out all bedding and im looving at ur vid to see what will work
My favorite bedding so far is rabbit hole hay premium white bedding. It’s got a lot less dust then all the others I’ve tried and I’ve tried a lot, Plus i no longer see dust on my hamsters and mice when they emerge from their tunnels
Hi really need help is bedding ok for mice!? It's called peckish. Here is the description: 100% natural untreated Norway Spruce and Silver Fir shavings. The bedding is machine-cleaned to be dust-free, hygienic and binds unpleasant odours.
I just had to purchase care fresh natural and it so hard compared to white Kaytee. 😭 I am going to start using both
Here we also have some others like fitch (dusty), megazorb (very dusty) and finacard (the best they sell a variety but not super soft I also only use it for my gerbils.)
I looked into kiln dryer pine litter for my sugar gliders, but I did not get it because really small on the back of the package near the bottom, it said "Warning! May cause cancer!"
I had to toss 2 large carefresh white bedding. Smelled like chemicals. The odor was so strong and strange. Called chewy up and the refunded me. Ordered the kaytee natural. So much softer and no odor.
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Thank you again!
I use a mix of aspen and chipsi.
For whatever reason the carefresh bedding always feels strangely 'wet' and soggy to me. It doesn't mask the urine smell as good either, but you're right it definitely is more dense.
have you ever tried Boxo Comfort bedding?
Hi Munchie, I was wondering if you could put the link to your amazon Wishlist in your video descriptions?
This is a really helpful video! Especially for new owners or owners that did some more research and are now trying to find an alternative to wood shavings.
I use rather Kaytee and Carefresh.
The first batch of Kaytee I got was fine but the second I found plastic and what looked like a shredded rubber glove in, so I went to Carefresh for a couple of years. I tried Kaytee again a few months ago and everything has been fine since.
I noticed the hamsters seem to prefer Kaytee while the gerbils I had preferred Carefresh. While both are dusty like you said, I found Kaytee too dusty for my rats because they're very very sensitive to those kinda of things so I used a mixture of carefresh and soft 100% paper litter for them and they did great on it 🙂
Hi I have a question, how many litres is the Kay tree cosy bedding you showed please?
I recently added reptile snake aspen to my cage ( the other side is a good 8 inches of paper bedding) seems super soft. Hoping that’s okay!
The Kaytee Natural is great, no dust, the white is super dusty. I've had both. Kaytee likes to ship out their old stock and it drops the powder out of it like old toilet paper does if it sits around for a year. I will never ever buy their white bleach bedding again. The natural is great, not dusty
My both my hamsters HATE paper bedding😂 I have to use aspen or else they will get angry with me but I usually mix carefresh and aspen but they prefer just plain aspen
OMG SAME! My hamsters are so frickin weird 😂
What aspen shavings can I get that I can directly open the package and put straight into the cage that will also not cause lice or mites?
i always use kaytee clean and cozy. every bag of carefresh ive bought was extremely dry, and the last bag had an awful smell so i returned it. i wonder if they just have a crappy manufacturer for my area or something.
Couldn't you combine a paper bedding then hay to get that firmer bedding? Thats what I do.
Hay is an added material, not a suitable bedding type. It'll be mentioned in the next video talking about nesting materials.
I was hoping at 11:04 you were going to say the wheel issue was that they burrow all the bedding under the wheel to the point it doesn’t spin lol. My hamster keeps doing that and then freaks out that his wheel won’t move 🤪
I should have mentioned this, it was overlooked. But yes if everything sinks, so does that bloody wheel of theirs. Ha ha.
I hate when people say Munchie doesn't put enough bedding in the hamster's enclosures. They have to be understanding that she runs a rescue with a lot of animals so she has to try and conserve the bedding, as well as some types of bedding just compacts down easily, making it look like less than originally was put. Please be undetsuanding that whatever you do for your hamster may not work for her, and at the end of the day, she still promotes more bedding :) Maybe Im being too defensive but I just want people to understand this before they go and leave mean comments
Hey Munchie! I was watching one video and then this one started to play - and I'm really glad I ended up just letting it play because I was about to donate a large bag of Small Pet Select bedding from your Amazon wish list. If you aren't going to be using that brand of bedding anymore could you update your wish list??
Munchie I'm having issues with clean and cozy and carefresh for my mice what's going on I noticed with clean and cozy my mice eyes looked squinty and swollen a bit and with care fresh one started getting under her eye a little bit Dx so I switched to Aspen
What if the aspen is shaved very fine?
Does someone know how much bedding (in L) you need for an 80cm x 57cm enclosure?
Is all living things paper bedding fine that’s what I have been using ?
Is mini hemp bedding okay? :)
I have heard that hemp bedding is safe for hamsters 😊
@@hunters.dicicco1410 Thanks for the reply! :)
I followed your channel my Syrian is eating your recommendation. I looking for winter white food. My Syrian for bedding she Kaytee aspen Chewy.com 113.3 litter mix Kaytee clean and cozy
what would be the best bedding forhamster? I do have access to hay and grass as im in germany, however my last hammy couldn't really dig well in it, unless something was on top, being "roof" for the tunnels
Hello my name is santos.I was wondering if you could do a cage review for me? I found the cage on Amazon. It is called Universal Small Animal Home, Pastorals Hamster Cat Ferret Cage Wire Pet Cage,Anti-Fall Portable Luxury Small Animal Home (Black). Thank you 😊
It's a shame that small pet select is gone that far down in quality. I used them all the time when I had guinea pigs. I was thinking about getting some for Midnight my hamster but I guess I won't. I wish I could use some aspen with my bedding since she loves tunneling but she's allergic.
I have 5 hamsters and 3 guinea pigs. 5 hamsters = 5 cages!! I just got my 1st male mouse (Milk Dud) I definitely need this video!! Are mice the same as hamster care? Besides food...i know their diet is different, but cage care..
I use hennep schavings i hope its okey becaus its naturel i live in the netherlands whit my robrovski hamster
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