The piggies and their brand-new fleece! :D

[typicalfemale]

My fleece arrived today from piggybedspreads.com (for reference this is a size "medium" cage from guineapigcages.com and the bedspread fits perfectly with a little looseness on the side but when it shipped, they sent an e-mail that after a few washes there'll be 3-5% shrinkage so it's supposed to be a little big). I've only used aspen before and I

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[typicalfemale]

I am SO HAPPY with the fleece already, I don't know why I didn't get it sooner. We tried some cheap fleece for a "test run" but it felt sticky and gross cause it wasn't meant for piggies so we threw it in the wash and gave up after one try. I am SO happy I tried this one cause I was getting so sick of shoveling aspen with a dustbin. Not to mention the fact that I was losing hay because it'd be buried in the aspen and the cage never looked clean after the first day. I love it for the reduction of effort for more play time, and the piggies love it because it's one gigantic cuddle cup, haha. :)

I didn't know you could use water dishes! I use a ceramic bowl for my hay (you probably can't see it under there in the video) that's pretty much useless now that I can see the hay that falls on the fleece bottom. Toffee will probably drink from the bowl because she's always kissy and will lick my hands, chin and arms whenever I hold her. Tribble, on the other hand, just pancakes and relaxes. Did you start them off with the dish water or have a dish and a bottle? The bottle does worry me. Not only clogging up but it's a pain to keep the area sanitary cause nothing is worse around here in Florida than water that lingers, and it drips a lot and stays no matter what I do. Lixit used to work & I thought it'd be extra sturdy since our dog used the same kind when we had to crate her but now I just want to make sure they're hydrated. Back then we'd leave the beagle alone for an hour, and it wasn't a full-time thing like the bottle's become now.

[zebrallama]

All our three piggies are rescues, and one of them had a water dish when she was at the place we rescued her from. Not sure about the others: they may have started on bottles and learned to use a dish.