Home Made Bedding

  I am researching on how to make home made rat bedding! I'm sure you know that its very expensive to buy bedding from the store. I am finding a solution. Cedar shavings and all kinds of other shavings beddings are a no no, from my experience, any shavings are horrible for the rat's lungs. When my mom and I breed rats, we would use torn up newspaper. Our rats didn't contract issues as did the pet shop rats in shavings. I was reading this Newspaper Bedding Idea on Yahoo Answers. I think its a pretty good idea. Here is a recipe for Home made bedding!

  What you need:
 Newspaper
 Water
 Bleach
 Strainer (Optional)

 If you have a lot of rats you can use a bath tub to make this beding. First, shred the newspaper into little stripes. Put it in hot water, in a bucket or the bathtub. Stir and squeeze several times to release the ink. Bleach the paper and let it sit for around 5 minutes. Then rinse and squeeze repeatidly and rinse. Then bring the newspaper outside in the sun, or in your living room to dry. Rip it up into smaller peices, smaller and smaller, and then let it completly dry. Sun drying is the best way. The ink will have mostly be out of the newspaper. When the paper dries tear it apart in little peices and put it in a bag.

Home Made Bedding (See the video section for a how to video)