Guinea pigs love and prefer comfortable, absorbent, as well as soft beddings inside their enclosures. You know you have chosen good bedding if the enclosure remains dry and void of those nasty odors during your regular or weekly cleanups. Spot cleaning should be done regularly so you can remove soiled bedding, and then you need to do full bedding changes in order to keep a clean, healthy, as well as pleasant environment for your beloved pet.
A lot of guinea pig owners these days go for bedding that is paper-based or those fleece over wood chips. Wood chips or shavings have lost quite their luster as a go-to bedding material for guinea pigs because of certain issues with other wood shavings (for instance, cedar shavings emit oil that could bring about health issues for your beloved pocket pet). Wood shavings have poor absorbent attributes and that means wood shavings are also poor when it comes to odor control inside the enclosure.
If you have concerns about your pet’s needs, do call your animal hospital Columbia, MD.
