[Gpdd] MISC- bedding and medicines

[Penny Charlesworth]

Jaime,

So sorry to read about your husband's work troubles and your own fight for 
disability payments. Good luck with that.

If I used Carefresh, I could never afford to keep Piggyfriends running. Such 
products did not exist when I first had piggies and I used thick wads of 
newspaper with hay on top. Decades later and I am still doing the same 
thing. An army of kind folk save me their newspapers and I buy hay by the 
bale from a nearby farm.

I sort the papers to remove any glossy ones as these are not absorbent and 
set aside any with staples so that I can remove them at a later time. Oh the 
joy of spending an evening de-stapling newspapers but it has to be done as 
that is the only dangerous part of using them.

Newspaper in England is printed with non toxic ink so there is no danger to 
the piggies if they decide to eat some. There are always a few who like to 
tear their paper into strips or make interesting shapes from it but no harm 
is done.
I mentioned newspaper in a recent post and I remember that Sandy replied to 
say that US paper is the same so it is something that you could consider.

I clean out all of my pens every morning and give the piggies fresh paper 
but with only Mimi to care for this would not take long. I roll up the old 
paper with all the mess inside and put down clean sheets.

My piggies are perfectly happy on their paper. They are much more concerned 
playing with their friends and with the time that the veggies arrive.

Regarding the over the counter painkiller, I always keep a bottle of Nurofen 
in my piggy first aid box. It is the brand name of children's liquid 
ibuprofen. It is orange flavoured and is labelled 100mg/5ml. oral 
suspension. If the strength is the same in the US, the dose is 4ml. twice 
daily. My Rodentologists use this all the time and it is very safe for 
piggies.

Penny and the Piggyfriends.