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johonny
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 Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject: IS THERE ANY OTHER BEDDING I CAN USE FOR RATS BESIDES WOOD |
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| PET SHOP IS CLOSED AND ALL THE RATS ARE HAVING BABIES |
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kroakykaren
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Shred some newspaper 
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Young_Gun
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Or toilet paper/kitchen towel.
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Snowy
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When I and my friend used to keep rats we used a shredder and just shredded all the newspapers. They were fine n it though the white ones did get a little smuddged occassionally until we started to iron the papers to fix the ink (and that is why the righ used to have their papers ironed before reading them  ). They loved it.
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Sioux
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject: Re: IS THERE ANY OTHER BEDDING I CAN USE FOR RATS BESIDES WO |
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| johonny wrote: | | PET SHOP IS CLOSED AND ALL THE RATS ARE HAVING BABIES |
Depends on your set up if you use sawdust in the floor and some form of nesting material, then you can use peat ( make sure that it is totally dry though) as a substrate and just throw in a few sheets of kitchen towel the rats will covert this to nesting material
Use caution with newspaper the print can be toxic ( it certainly used to be a few years ago unless the formulation has changed
alternatively "waste paper" put through a shredder ( if you have one) works well
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