[crackerkorean]

Ok I know I have been asking alot of questions but I want to make sure that I have as much as I can get correct well ..... correct.

I was looking through some of the thread of everybodies cages and I have noticed alot of baby toys.

My wife and I went to antique stores and good wills (I look for vintage stereos, fountain pens and other odds and ends) and found a little castle that would be great for the little ones.

What is the best way to clean these used toys so that they are clean for the ratties?

Dishwasher??

 

[Poppyseed]

Dishwasher will do it! Be sure to get the cracks though if they are very dirty. You could do that with wipes. But yeah a dishwasher gets so hot it will kill anything.

 

[twitch]

a dishwasher works great if the toy is small enough to fit. if not then taking it to a do-it-yourself carwash and blasting the crud out of it for 5 mintues or so would work as well.

 

[Sparker]

Oooh - that car wash thing is a good idea...

 

[twitch]

i LOVE the car wash. i use it for deep cleans of the cage too. i leave in everything that isn't fabric so it gets a good blasting at the same time. it used to take me HOURS to get a good deep clean done on my cage and in the end i would be stiff, bruised and sore and still not completely satisfied with the result but too exhausted to care anymore. but with the car wash i plunk in $3 and 5 mintues later its cleaner then when i first got the thing from the store. its WELL worth the $3 investment

 

[mopydream44]

Wow........... that sounds great but I would think the harsh soap would be dangerous for ratties! We are talking about a drive through car wash right? Not the ones where you park and use a hose?

It'd be awesome to see the looks on peoples faces when I walk back into a carwash and pull out a cage! LOL! :lol:

 

[crackerkorean]

I think we are talking about the one that you park and use a hose.

I know the ones around here you can just use a water spray

 

[mopydream44]

That would make more sense but I still like the image of walking out of a big one with a rat cage 8O <---- peoples faces LOL

 

[twitch]

trust me, you'll get plenty of people giving you weird looks if you do it on a busy day. you may even get people pulling over to see what you're doing if you do it on a colder day. i had both experiences. but they are just curious and so far everyone has been very nice

 

[Sparker]

I love it.