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What do you use as your cage liner?
Newspaper	15 (78.9%)
Shredded Paper	0 (0%)
Small Pet Bedding	1 (5.3%)
Wood shavings (see below)	1 (5.3%)
Other	2 (10.5%)
Total Votes: 19

What do you line your cages with?
Topic Started: Aug 19 2008, 03:33 PM (504 Views)
hal9000	Aug 19 2008, 03:33 PM Post #1
Gold Member Posts: 1,443 Group: Member Member #166 Joined: July 6, 2007 Gender: Female I'm a conure: Owner My name is: Haley Location: Right Behind You...	What do you put at the bottum of your cage? Just a note, though wood shavings is one of the options, it isn't reccomended. Birds have very sensitive respitory systems and shavings aren't good for them. Also, bedding means CareFresh or other small animal bedding.
birdslave	Aug 19 2008, 05:23 PM Post #2
Advanced Member Posts: 63 Group: Member Member #440 Joined: May 21, 2008 Gender: Female # of conures: 1 I'm a conure: Owner My name is: Jo Location: Adelaide, Australia	I use newspaper, but as it's under the floor grid I'm not sure if this really counts?
BUUZBEE	Aug 21 2008, 06:20 AM Post #3
Administrator Posts: 8,052 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: October 23, 2006 Gender: Female # of conures: 1 My name is: Anna Location: So Cal, USA My Conure/s are: Kermit the blue crowned My Facebook: Anna Pottinger-Priest & conurecrazy.com My Myspace: CONURECRAZY My Twitter: CONURE_CRAZY	i put other, i use paper towels
conure58	Aug 21 2008, 10:32 AM Post #4
Administrator Posts: 7,671 Group: Admin Member #20 Joined: November 19, 2006 Gender: Male # of conures: 2 I'm a conure: Owner My name is: Mark Location: Mounds View, Minnesota My Conure/s are: Kahn (Brown-Throat) & Summer (Sun) My Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/conure58	I'm a newspaper person myself.
kim&mikefids	Aug 22 2008, 09:34 PM Post #5
Senior Member Posts: 102 Group: Member Member #446 Joined: May 25, 2008 Gender: Female # of conures: 1 I'm a conure: Owner My name is: Kim Location: Australia My Conure/s are: Canada - 2 GCCs Grinch & Horton Australia - 1 Cinn GCC Little Ella	Newspaper here...and in Canada,....plus like a Jo it's under the grid
hal9000	Aug 23 2008, 09:58 AM Post #6
Gold Member Posts: 1,443 Group: Member Member #166 Joined: July 6, 2007 Gender: Female I'm a conure: Owner My name is: Haley Location: Right Behind You...	Mine is under the grids too.
Bluemoods	Aug 25 2008, 09:55 PM Post #7
Advanced Member Posts: 12 Group: Member Member #559 Joined: August 25, 2008 Gender: Female # of conures: 1 I'm a conure: Owner	I put other since I use craft paper that comes in big roles.
Psistidan	Aug 31 2008, 03:18 PM Post #8
Advanced Member Posts: 18 Group: Member Member #520 Joined: July 28, 2008 Gender: Male # of conures: 1 I'm a conure: Owner My name is: Psistidan Location: Spokane Wa.	I use newspaper. It's a great way to recycle also.
WilbursMom	Aug 31 2008, 07:59 PM Post #9
Senior Member Posts: 154 Group: Member Member #518 Joined: July 26, 2008 Gender: Female # of conures: 2 I'm a conure: Owner My name is: Monique Location: VA My Conure/s are: Lucy the Nanday & Desi the Sun	Newspaper too...He particularly likes the current events.
Repoman	Feb 4 2009, 09:47 PM Post #10
Senior Member Posts: 221 Group: Member Member #316 Joined: December 29, 2007	I use packing paper that I buy from Storage Places so there is no ink residue. Kiwi (Love Bird) and Diesel (parrotlett) both get paper towels as well as they tend to wander on the bottom of their cages.
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