P@H shavings

[Forestpisces]

So today is Noels clean out day and as per usual i put her in the bath with all her toys so that i could commence with the cleaning. After the usual scrub down, and the replacing of an escapolagist hamster (lord knows hows she's figured a way to get out of the bath ) i started replacing her woodshavings. Now i'll freely admit that i do normally use cheap wilkinsons woodshaving and have never had a problem with them. They're cheap dust free and great value. But today i had to use P@H own brand as i'd had to pick some up whilst running an errand. As i was pulling apart the clumps fom the vaccume pack i felt a stab in by thumb, after investigating i discovered a large wood splinted poking out of the digit. I panicked then and went maticulously through the whole lot to remove anything that might harm my poor ham! i found 5 LARGE splinters and goodness knows how many small ones . I'm horrifyed! I've never had this problem with the wilko value ones as they've always been soft and light.

Has anyone else hd this problem or is it just me being over protective?

[amyXlovesXhamstersX]

I sometimes find splinters in the P@H shavings but I just pick them out. When I used wilkos woodshavings I found splinters as well...

[Lil Miss]

you get them in all brands, just another reason why not to use them in my opinion

[CoolcatNatNat44]

I found that they were quite sharp aswell, i just took them out....

[Katarina]

I found chunks of wood in megazorb, so no bedding is free from some kind of dangerous part or two.

[Erin Loves Dwarf Hamsters]

Ive found a few splinters in the P@H shavings, a local make and one which I bought in a random shop. Its just something I come to expect now. More often than finding splinters i will just find large chunks of wood in the shavings. Unlike the splinters I don't remove these because Pippy likes to 'hunt' them and collect them in a big pile :L

[Teal]

The only thing I trust from P@H is the safe bedding, I got my Teal there, I just had to rescue her from that monsterus place!!!

Teal/Phil.

[Hamtastic]

This is basically why I've been avoiding wood shavings. I had a bag of aspen shavings from a large chain store in the U.S., and it had a lot of sharp big pieces with very jagged edges, and my hams did not like digging through it at all. I'm actually about to receive a trial bag of soft smaller size aspen shavings any day now. If that turns out to be bad too, I'm going to continue using non-shaving beddings.

[SnickersTheFirst]

I use Megazorb as it's so soft, I've never been a fan of woodshavings. Always seemed too sharp.

[Tish36]

I've never had any troubles with P@H woodshavings but tons with Megazorb, how strange :S