Free Pet Bedding

As the proud mom of four small furry creatures, I go through a lot of pet bedding.  I would buy various types of bedding, always feeling kind of bad spending money on something that would end up in the trash a week later.

Meanwhile, I would be shredding our bills and junk mail, feeling vaguely bad about throwing all that paper trash into the garbage each week (although I don’t consider myself all that “green”, I do have my moments).

One day, VOILA!  I thought, why not use the shredded paper as bedding?

The gerbils love it …

… as does the hedgehog (yes, we have a hedgehog!).

You observant readers may wonder where pet #4 is.  He is a rabbit, and doesn’t use bedding.

So, try this for your small animals and see how it works.  If your animal is extremely sensitive, perhaps the inks in the paper would bother him, but our pets have had no problems with it.

Additionally, my girls love knowing that last week’s math homework is now a cozy bed for their furry friends.

For more great tips, head over to Rocks in My Dryer.

And on an unrelated note, head over to my daughter’s blog.  She’s doing an Avon giveaway!