This drives me a bit nuts.. but there is this new product available in Petsmart, and I'm sure all kinds of other pet stores too. Its called Kaytee Soft Sorbent Natural Lavender Scented Bedding.
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Kaytee Soft Sorbent Natural Lavender Scented Bedding.
Product Description: (limited quantities available)
This bedding is blended with the perfect amount of real, aromatic lavender flowers to bring a pleasant air to your small pet's home.
A PetSmart exclusive that adds a gentle, soothing scent to your small pet's habitat! Wood fibers are converted into this soft, highly absorbent bedding and litter. This bedding is blended with the perfect amount of real, aromatic flowers to bring a pleasant air to your small pet's home. Choose from lavender, rose, or mint. The result is an earth-friendly, absorbent bedding that effectively controls odor and adds a cheerful aroma.
Key features:
* Helps control odor
* Safe, natural scent
* Product is colorfast
* Great nesting material
* Made from reclaimed resources
* Flushable, compostable
* No pine or cedar aromatic oils
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Okay no pine or cedar, thats great and all but does anyone find this product ridiculous? A hamster could care less if it smelled like lavender or roses! Obviously this is just another monkey making ploy targeted to the desire of people who want everything they own to smell scented.
What I dont like about this product is that it implies that hamsters smell, therefore hammy owners better by this product! Hamsters dont smell so long as you clean their cage. Products like this get to me.. like that small animal shampoo you can buy. Hamster don't need to smell minty fresh!
I wish they would focus on making better hamster cages for syrians.
Maybe its time I came up with a new cage plan for syrians and pitch it the ideas to one of these companies.
Actually like many other "safe hamster" products that come out I worry about after affects.. I wonder if the scent would be to strong and irritating to the hamster? I wonder how safe it really is?