Product Reviews - Newpaper

Description: Er, newspaper!
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Available from: Usually pushed through your door a couple of times a week whether you want them or not!
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newspaperreview

Review 1 of 6

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Price: Free
Score: 7/10

Plus points:

No cost
Absorbent
Ideal if you want to litter train your mice.
Promotes recycling!
Warm
Provides stimulation as the mice will rip it up, sleep under it etc.
Durable enough to cover wire shelves (for mice)

Negative points:

Needs changed more frequently than other bedding materials.
Might stain feet and tails etc.

My mice and I are big fans of newspaper. It’s great fun and they always end up choosing to sleep between the sheets rather than in any nests/boxes.

Reviewer: Squeaky
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Review 2 of 6

Place purchased: n/a
Price: Free
Score: 10/10 for price My mice give it a 9/10 for fun!

I like to recycle my newspaper by giving it to my mice. They love shredding it into pieces and making nests out of it. Sometimes they just like to shred it into pieces and then walk away. It seems to keep them busy for quite awhile. It is very absorbent but I find that I have to change it every other day in order to keep their cage clean.

Reviewer: Dreamstar380
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Review 3 of 6

Place purchased: n/a
Price: Free
Score: 9/10

I’ve found that newspaper is brilliant for my mice to shred and make nests out of. Its free and a great way to recycle old papers! You can tear it up into big strips and then the mice will nibble it into smaller bits, or you can pop it in the shredder.

Reviewer: Morgan
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Review 4 of 6

Place purchased: n/a
Price: Free from parents who buy it daily
Score: 10/10

Newspaper ink has been child (and pet) safe since 1997 when it had to be made from vegetable-based inks, so all (except the financial times and it’s pink paper) are safe.

I use thickly sheeted newspaper (in different rotations and degrees of folding) on the base of my cages below the main substrate. I find this increases the overall absorbency (mice like to wee!) and it stops said wee sticking pieces of substrate to the base of the cage making cleaning out harder. I find this helps immensely with keeping the smell down the whole week through as I don’t need to make spot-cleans to remove damper bits of substrate clumps.

I also use strip-shredded paper as nesting material in houses. All my houses also have the bottom lined with a folded piece to help absorb wees that have happened in bed! This gets changed every 2-3 days depending on the number of mice in the cage as it can get a bit icky - however I would do the same for any other bedding even if the results weren’t as visible.

In more recent times i use a double-layer to cover a bared shelf that is in one cage - held in place with a ceramic bowl.

And you can also tell friends you are being environmentally friendly by recycling!

Reviewer: Acapae
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Review 5 of 6

Place purchased: Shoved into my hand by at least 5 different free paper distributors between Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road stations
Price: Free
Score: 7/10

Pros:
If you’re a newspaper reader, then you probably have a lot of it piling up in the recycling bin already. If you’re not a newspaper reader but live or work in central London, then you probably come across at least a dozen free papers in your daily commute. Either way, it’s free.

It’s particularly useful for lining the base of a cage, as it then extends the usable life of whatever substrate goes on top of it. It’s also useful for covering wire platforms, to make them safer and more comfortable to walk on, although it will then need to be changed regularly.

It’s relatively soft, and can either be torn into strips, put through a shredder, or crumpled into balls for the mice to tear up themselves.

Cons:
It’s not particularly absorbent, so it won’t soak up urine and hide odours as well as other substrates, and will need changing more often. I also find that the ink leaves black stains on the base of my cage.

Overall:
Newspaper is a good, inexpensive substrate and floor covering if you don’t mind stains on your cage base and having to change it frequently. I would certainly recommend it as a lining for your cage base if you find your current substrate sticking or not quite absorbing enough, and as a cheap, disposable wire platform cover.

Reviewer: Cub
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Review 6 of 6

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Score: 8.5/10

I started using newspaper when I realised that sawdust was so harmful to my mice. Newspaper seemed like an obvious choice as I get it free almost everyday and it can be manipulated into lots of different types of substrate.

Pros:
I use mine to line my cage and always use 2-3 sheets so the insulation is good for my hairless mice. I then manipulate it into different types of substrate so my mice can play. This is great for cage enrichment and only takes a few mins to do. I use a paper shredder first and shred a couple of sheets. Depending on the type of cage you’re lining 2-3 sheets is usually more than enough. Some of the shreds I leave long, others I cut or tear into different lengths. This means that when my mice are burrowing they can find substantial pieces and smaller ones for nesting. I then break and tear up a little more newspaper so they have some bigger pieces to drag around which they seem to like. Newspaper, to me is an ideal bedding as it is free and can be recycled. It is also completely harmless if your mousie takes a liking to its taste and is also good at insulating their cage especially if you built it up so they have a nice thick layer.

Cons:
Not many tbh…. it isn’t great at absorbing urine however I always put a little more in the corner where my mice tend to ‘go’ and this works. It can get a bit smelly. Also the dye from the paper, although harmless can sometimes turn your mice grey, esp if they’re PEW or have white patches/pink feet, ears or tails. This doesn’t harm your mice but it does make them look a little dirty.

Overall:
I would most certainly recommend as it is always readily available and means you can make a huge batch every once in a while to tide you over for a few ‘cage-cleans’. Harmless and mine love to use it in their ‘nest-making’ and love to burrow into it.<.p>

Reviewer: *Fairysara*
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