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Shannonmcn · 04-15-2019, 01:28 AM

Spot cleaning should take care of any smell, once you figure out where their pee-spot is. Or if you use a litter tray or sand dish you only really need to clean that. The rest of the bedding won't get dirty at all really.

The hamster would prefer you change literally zero bedding ever so how often you change it is for your peace of mind. I will change maybe 1/3 of the bedding every couple of months but that's usually because it's gotten mixed up with chewed bits of cardboard or she's spilled sand everywhere or something so it's just to keep it tidier for me. I won't ever do a full clean unless someone has been ill or something, there's no need and having no bedding with their scent on it is stressful.

Just live with it for a while, keep up the spot cleaning and see how it goes until you feel spot cleaning just isn't cutting it anymore.

04-15-2019, 01:28 AM
Shannonmcn PM Fluffy for custom title Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Posts: 3,192	Re: Cleaning a cage Spot cleaning should take care of any smell, once you figure out where their pee-spot is. Or if you use a litter tray or sand dish you only really need to clean that. The rest of the bedding won't get dirty at all really. The hamster would prefer you change literally zero bedding ever so how often you change it is for your peace of mind. I will change maybe 1/3 of the bedding every couple of months but that's usually because it's gotten mixed up with chewed bits of cardboard or she's spilled sand everywhere or something so it's just to keep it tidier for me. I won't ever do a full clean unless someone has been ill or something, there's no need and having no bedding with their scent on it is stressful. Just live with it for a while, keep up the spot cleaning and see how it goes until you feel spot cleaning just isn't cutting it anymore.