Rat Bedding....why pine and cedar bedding is BAD!!!

First of all, bedding: Pine and Cedar bedding is BAD! Repeat BAD! Studies suggest that Pine and Cedar bedding used with small animals can not only cause Mycoplasma, a respiratory disease, but also harm their liver. Sure, studies suggest, but if you have a rat (or ANY pet at all!), you should only want the best for it. Carefresh is a bedding you can easily find in stores, as well as Aspen. They’re sort of dusty, I’ve noticed. Made my rats sneeze. Crushed Walnut Shell bedding is very good for odor control, but it can mold after 3 days, so you have to change it completely every 2-3 days, and it can get quite expensive. Did you know you can litter train your rats? It’s very simple. Cover the cage floor with bedding and wait a few days. Then, take the wettest poopiest bedding and put it in a litter pan, clean the entire cage and use a different bedding to cover the bottom than the bedding in the litter pan. Like for instance, you use aspen on the floor and walnut in the pan. If they poop out of the litter pan, then take the poop and put it in the pan.

Pine and cedar bedding for rats is very very bad, very very bad for the rats. did i say that it was bad!!!