One of the most important wishes that I have for my guinea pigs is that they have a comfortable living environment. I'm sure you wish the same for your pets as well, am I right?
Sharing all of the tools you need to keep your guinea pig cage clean and keep it smelling fresh, tips on fleece bedding, and setting up a guinea pig cage. Ok, I know, this is probably the most random post ever. BUT I know many of you have kiddos who want guinea pigs, or even…
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Discover the best bedding options for guinea pigs. Learn expert tips for maintaining a clean, safe, and comfortable habitat, and see why GuineaDad Liners are the top choice.
This is the easiest way to do fleece bedding for guinea pigs, rabbits, and other small animals. Over the years I’ve done all kinds of different things for bedding in my habitats. Yes, I call …
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Having a guinea pig at home is great fun, but after all the playing, the guinea pig needs a comfortable place to sleep. And you can make it yourself!
Discover the best bedding options for guinea pigs. Learn expert tips for maintaining a clean, safe, and comfortable habitat, and see why GuineaDad Liners are the top choice.
Two years ago we introduced a couple of sweet guinea pigs into our little family and I blogged about the corner guinea pig cage that I'd built for them. They still live very happily in the corner of our living room and almost everyone that sees them comments on what an impressive habitat they have. I made waterproof fleece cage liners for our guinea pigs at the end of 2016, and after two years, those original cage liners have sadly reached the end of their lifespan - and so it's time to make some more. (Unfortunately, the waterproof backing degrades over time - especially in the areas that get more frequently used as a toilet.) I was really pleased with how they turned out - both functionally and aesthetically, so when it came time to make more I thought I'd write a tutorial. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of using waterproof fleece liners in a guinea pigs' cage, I would compare it to using washable nappies instead of disposable ones, but significantly easier! Like washable nappies, there is a polyester fleece surface that wicks the urine away from the guinea pigs' feet, an inner cotton toweling core that absorbs the wetness, and a waterproof backing that prevents the urine from transferring onto the bottom of the cage. I love the look of waterproof fleece liners and I feel they fit in so much better in a living room setting than traditional alternatives. Admittedly, they are probably more work than sawdust, Fitch, Megazorb, Carefresh or other disposable absorbent substrates, but fleece has to be softer and more comfortable for them to sleep on. If you look around, you can find fleece to fit in with the colour scheme of your living room and, over the course of a couple of years, it saves quite a bit of money too. (Mine would have actually lasted longer if they hadn't been asymmetrical, as I would have been able to rotate them.) Materials needed to make waterproof fleece guinea pig cage liners. These supplies should be enough to make two full-sized liners for my 90cm x 130cm cage. I'm also hoping that I'll be able to salvage parts of my original cage liners to make a few house liners that can be brushed down and removed between full clean outs. Extra large 230cm x 255cm throw from Primark. (After trying a few fleeces I've found this one to be excellent for easily brushing down and removing hairs and hay, as it's so silky.) Microfibre bathmat from Wilkos. (This will go under the main bottom house, one corner of which often gets used as a toilet. Our guinea pigs also like to sleep on this mat in front of the house.) Cotton towels to go inside the cage liners to absorb any urine. The Haren from Ikea is one of the biggest towels I could find. Waterproof, cotton toweling mattress protector. The Superking Gokart from Ikea will be big enough for me to get a couple of liners out of and possibly some small house mats too. I'm going to be repurposing the usable parts of my old cage liners to make house mats. If you are starting from scratch, you will need another towel and another waterproof toweling mattress protector to make removable house liners. Fabric Scissors Pins Metre ruler Fabric pen Sewing machine Sewing thread. Heavy duty sewing machine needle. I used a size 120/20 How to make Waterproof Guinea Pig Bedding The most important step, before you start cutting out your fabrics is to wash everything, at least three times. Wash and dry them at as high a temperature as the fabrics will stand without damaging them. You need to do this for two reasons - to remove any oils that might have been added during manufacture, which will reduce the absorbency of your fleece, but also to encourage your fabrics to shrink. If they are going to shrink, it is much better that they shrink now rather than when you've made your cage liners. Once all of your fabrics are dry, you need to trim away any edgings that will prevent your materials from laying flat - making it difficult to cut them out. Cut off the elasticated skirt from around the waterproof, cotton toweling mattress protector. Cut off the edging from around the towel. Cut off the edging from around the fleece blanket. When I made my cage, I also made a template of the base out of Proplex for future use. I laid this template on top of the towels and marked 5cm all the way around it. This gave me a 2cm seam allowance, plus a little extra to allow for possible shrinkage. Making it a little larger, also makes it a lot easier to fit on clean out days. Once I'd marked on my pattern, I pinned the two towel pieces together and then cut them out. I laid one of the towel pieces on top of my waterproof mattress protector and fleece, right side up. The mattress protector was cut out toweling side up (shiny side down) and the fleece was cut out right side up. My cage is asymmetrical and so the arrangement of fabrics is very important. If your cage is a rectangle, then you don't need to worry about which way your fabrics are facing when you cut them out. Once your three fabric pieces are cut out, you need to pin them together, as in the photo above, with the towel on the bottom, followed by the waterproof mattress protector, facing shiny side up and the fleece with the right side facing down. With a 2cm seam allowance, sew all the way around your three fabrics, leaving a 30 to the 40cm gap for turning it the right way round. I made sure that the opening was placed on a part of the liners that wouldn't be seen ie. under the houses and hay/litter tray. Cut the corners off at 45 degrees. Turn the cage liner the right way round, making sure that the toweling is sandwiched between the fleece top and the waterproof base. Pin and then stitch the opening closed a few mm from the edge. There you have one finished waterproof guinea pig cage liner! Making a Large Heavy duty Microfibre House Mat I love our guinea pigs, but they do require quite a bit of regular cleaning. Over the last couple of years, I've strived to find ways of reducing that maintenance as much as possible, while still giving them a hygienic and clean living environment. One of the main methods I use to keep them clean between weekly full clean outs is to put separate waterproof mats at the bases of their main sleeping and resting areas. That way they can be brushed down, or replaced if necessary, with clean ones without having to empty the whole cage. Our guinea pigs have a litter and hay tray, which they mostly use as a toilet, but they also like to use the lower house, right next to the litter tray as a toilet, so this house needs a much heavier duty base. These microfibre bath mats from Wilkos are ideal as they are very thick and comfortable for the guinea pigs to lie on, and if you cut them in half and trim off the edging, they are wide enough to fit under a good sized guinea pig house, leaving a cozy area that extends in front of the house for them to sleep on. Making the house mats is pretty much the same as the bedding, but on a smaller scale. The main difference is that the bathmats are much thicker, so they can be quite difficult to sew through. You definitely need a heavy duty sewing machine needle for this. I used a 120/20 needle for the house mats, but there's no harm in using this same needle throughout this whole project. It's at this point that I realised that I didn't have enough of the new waterproof mattress protector and toweling left to make the house mats, but I was able cut sections of towel and mattress protector from my original bedding from the large areas that hadn't degraded. I was glad to be able to reuse part of the old bedding, rather than throw the whole lot away. Stitch all the way around the house mat, leaving an opening to turn it the right way round. Clip the corners close to the stitches at 45 degrees. Turn it the right way around and pin it closed. I found that I had to hand stitch the opening closed this time as my sewing machine just couldn't cope with that amount of fabric. Making smaller house mat liners. I use two of these Ferplast pet houses with one side removed (to give them easier access to the hay corner) in my guinea pig cage. They are actually sold as rabbit houses, but I'm sure they are much too small for even a dwarf rabbit. They do however fit two adult guinea pigs quite comfortably. Here's the template I use to make my house mats. I haven't made a photo tutorial for the house mats as the process is exactly the same as for the previous two but on a smaller scale. These smaller house mats are perfect for resting areas that don't get used quite so heavily as a toilet. I have three of these in my guinea pig cage, one in the upper house and two in the small hidey areas to the side of the tiered houses. These can be easily brushed down every day and changed if they get wet. I rarely find that they get saturated though as our guinea pigs don't often like to wee where they sleep... Here is a complete set of waterproof guinea pig fleece bedding that I use every week in my guinea pig cage. I made two sets - one to use and one to wash. ------- Do you save money using washable guinea pig bedding? I was intrigued to work out if I really do save money in using washable fleece bedding as opposed to disposable substrate so I decided to do the maths. Here is a breakdown of everything it costs me to maintain a clean guinea pig cage, assuming that the bedding will last me 2 years ... 1 large Primark throw - £11 1 Wilko's bath mat - £6 3 x Haren bath sheets - £15 2 x Gokart mattress protectors - £28 2 years' worth of Fitch to fill a 53cm x 34cm litter tray - £82 Very approximate guestimate of the cost of washing fleece bedding over 2 years - £45 Therefore using and washing guinea pig bedding and Fitch over 2 years costs me £187, which equates to £93.50 a year. (This doesn't include the savings I made by repurposing sections of my old bedding to make small house mats.) At the moment, I use Fitch, which is a paper-based bedding, just in the hay/litter tray. If I decided to use a disposable substrate instead of washable bedding, I would continue to use Fitch as it is absorbant and very low odour. My current litter tray is 0.18m², but my full cage is 0.9m². At the moment I use 20kg of paper-based bedding a year, which costs me £41. If I were to fill my 0.9m² cage with Fitch it would cost me £205 a year. So that's an annual saving of £111.50, plus the savings I made by repurposing usable parts of my cage liners the second time around. I'm pretty pleased with that! If you enjoyed this post, you may enjoy my other guinea pig craft posts - Building a Corner Guinea Pig C and C cage My Ultimate Guinea Pig hay Corner This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links to similar products that I purchased myself to make the guinea pig bedding. If you click through and purchase anything, I may receive a very small percentage of the purchase price. ---------- Please be sweet and share the love. Leave a comment, subscribe to my YouTube channel, like my Facebook page for regular updates or follow me on Pinterest, Bloglovin' or Instagram
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Discover the best bedding options for guinea pigs. Learn expert tips for maintaining a clean, safe, and comfortable habitat, and see why GuineaDad Liners are the top choice.
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Firstly, this listing is for a PDF knitting pattern (written in English) and not a finished fibre friend! And the winner of the cutest cavy competition goes to... Gordon the guinea pig! Measuring 18cm/7in from his little pink nose to his big brown bottom, Gordon is the handsome hunk that your hutch has been hankering for. His head and ears are knitted using the intarsia technique but only for a few rows at a time, making him the ideal project for more adventurous knitters. And, just like a real guinea pig, Gordon enjoys nibbling scraps so you’ll only need small amounts of yarn to make your own ravishing rodent! All pieces are knitted flat on straight needles. They're then seamed and attached using mattress stitch. If you’ve never tried intarsia before, there are lots of helpful videos and tutorials online. Alternatively, Gordon would look just as cute knitted in a single colour or using a fluffy yarn. You'll be pleased to know that this pattern has been reviewed by a professional technical editor to ensure that it's super-easy to follow! *Materials* 15g/½oz/42m/46yds DK yarn in each of the following: brown, white and ginger Oddments of DK yarn in each of the following: pale pink and fondant pink A pair of 2¾mm straight needles 1 pair of 9mm toy sew-on button eyes 1m/40in black embroidery thread Toy stuffing A tapestry needle and large-headed pins for sewing up *The boring bit...* This pattern is intended for personal use so it’s fine to print it out for personal use but please don’t sell it, share it on the internet or make multiple copies. What you can sell (more money for yarn – YAY!) is finished items made from this pattern so long as you’ve made them yourself and it’s not on a commercial basis. Please remember to credit me as the designer! *And finally...* I’d love to see your finished guinea pig so please share him or her on Instagram and Ravelry!
Discover the best bedding options for guinea pigs. Learn expert tips for maintaining a clean, safe, and comfortable habitat, and see why GuineaDad Liners are the top choice.
Discover the best bedding options for guinea pigs. Learn expert tips for maintaining a clean, safe, and comfortable habitat, and see why GuineaDad Liners are the top choice.
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Guinea pig snuggle bed. Cotton and fleece fabric. Removable pee pad. opening about 9x8 super comfy
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These large double fleece snuggle caves provide comfort for your little one and are perfect for hedgehogs, rats, guinea pigs and other small pets. They are made completely from fleece, have hidden seams and are designed for the mouth to stay open making it easier for them to get in and out of. These larger stay open snuggle sacks are wider so if you have a chunky little one, these are ideal Large padded stay open cave:26cm x 28cm/10" x 11"Exterior - FleeceInterior - Fleece ✂️ SAFETY: All products are little feet safe; they have been made with hidden seams to ensure that there are no loose threads or edges that could catch little toes. All items are made in a smoke free environment shared with a few hedgehogs. 🧺 CARE: Easily washed at 30'C/86'F on a short or hand wash cycle. It is best to shape the item back into its original shape after washing and allow to air dry. Do not tumble dry. For the safety of your little one please check for wear and tear.