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Hi everyone,
My two female rats are about 8-9 months old and live in a multi-leveled cage. We started out with fleece on each level, newspaper on the bottom, and Kaytee carefresh bedding in their litter pan on the bottom tray. At first this was okay, but I've noticed that they are no longer using their litter tray as a bathroom, they are instead using it to stash food. They rip and shred all the newspaper, so we stopped using that (because listening to rats shredding hunks of paper at 2am got old fast), and they pee and poo on the fleece levels at a rate that I can't keep up with washing them. Also, they get gross REALLY fast, and most aren't worth washing to use a second time so I throw them out. They are now just peeing on the plastic level itself and it's GROSS. Anyone have any suggestions on how to make this cleaner and easier on everyone? I've never owned rats before (I had a guinea pig before, haha) and I am not sure what I should do. I've looked at pictures of how nice and pretty people's cages are and I'd LOVE to get my rats using their litter tray again so that I can actually make the rest of their cage look nice! At least they aren't as gross as my guinea pig was!
My two female rats are about 8-9 months old and live in a multi-leveled cage. We started out with fleece on each level, newspaper on the bottom, and Kaytee carefresh bedding in their litter pan on the bottom tray. At first this was okay, but I've noticed that they are no longer using their litter tray as a bathroom, they are instead using it to stash food. They rip and shred all the newspaper, so we stopped using that (because listening to rats shredding hunks of paper at 2am got old fast), and they pee and poo on the fleece levels at a rate that I can't keep up with washing them. Also, they get gross REALLY fast, and most aren't worth washing to use a second time so I throw them out. They are now just peeing on the plastic level itself and it's GROSS. Anyone have any suggestions on how to make this cleaner and easier on everyone? I've never owned rats before (I had a guinea pig before, haha) and I am not sure what I should do. I've looked at pictures of how nice and pretty people's cages are and I'd LOVE to get my rats using their litter tray again so that I can actually make the rest of their cage look nice! At least they aren't as gross as my guinea pig was!