Personally, I think plain white napkins are the best. For one, they are
cheap to buy. I usually take three at a time and tear them into strips for
the gerbils. Then they finish shredding them and fluffying them up into a
nest. You can add more as needed.
You can also use plain white tissue and paper towels. Of course the gerbils
get most of the clean cardboard from the boxed foods like cereal, mac &
cheese, ect.
DO NOT use cardboard egg cartons or wax coated boxes from the freezer.
Ann-Marie
Secretary for The American Gerbil Society
http://www.geocities.com/amergerbsoc
T&T Gerbils
http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Reserve/1928/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Beki Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 8:56 AM
Subject: Safe Bedding
> I read with interest the responses re the fluffy bedding for small pets.
I
> had heard it was unsafe, but it amazes me that they are allowed to sell it
> in pet shops labelled up so blatantly as "safe for small pets". Surely
> there is some kind of trades description act type ruling to stop that?
>
> I have been giving my three the pink shedded up tissue paper stuff which
> they seem to adore, but I am concerned about them eating it. They seem to
> eat a third of it as soon as I put it in, then use the rest for bedding.
> Its not so much the paper I am worried about but what makes it pink. I
have
> been all over the packet and it just states tht its safe for small pets.
> But, given that the lethal white fluff says this I wanted to get some
other
> opinions.
>
> Also, I couldn't get them the pink tissue this weekend, so I bought some
of
> the shredded up jaycloth type stuff. Is this safe?
>
>
> Beki
>
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