The_Boaphile
04-18-2002, 04:05 PM
Today I took delivery of a precious commodity!
That's right... Aspen shavings! I have tried Aspen in all my baby cages and in about 20 - 2' x 2' cages and my Boas seem to be loving it! I love it too! This weekend my good long time old buddy Vence is coming over to help me make the big huge monstrous switcheroo. As you might expect, this is a little bit of a job. I had 60 - 30 lb. bags of this bedding delivered. I have been using the exact same substraight for all the years I have been keeping Boas. These 17 years have seen a couple of semi loads of newspaper, all laid flat, come and then go soiled with a mixture of urates, Boa POOP, and baby slime. I must say I am very happy to see it all go. While the Aspen cost more for the product itself, we no longer will spend countless hours unfolding newspaper. No more ink stains. No more paper cuts. No more stained Albinos from the black ink.
In addition I have been using plain dry clay kitty litter without any perfumes or scents of any kind under the newspaper. This was to make sure my lovely bride of more than 22 blissful years, love of my life who worships the ground I walk on, now did not have to smell the vapors from fresh hot steamy rat hair infested need I say usually brown Boa POOP. Of course we only had a few Boas when I started and we have a few more now and she does wash the hundreds or water bowls but she has never ever had one whiff of steamy stinky Boa POOP. Not once. Yea right. The kitty litter does help keep the smell down but is the cause of many very snotty sneezes after a long day of Boa Poop shoveling and urate scraping.
We will be using a shop vac to clean out all the yucky kitty litter, urate scraps and misc POOP chunks and will also be using that same shop vac, dubbed the "Crap Vac" by Mark Kennedy, as the valuable stinky POOPER scooper in the future. We will be picking up the big chunks and vacuum the rest. I can't wait to start cleaning this stuff! I am building a special canister for the vacuum so I can put a plastic bag in it to haul out the POOP as it were. I can't wait!!!!
I'll keep yawl posted! I wonder if this means I won't have that Boa POOP under my finger nails any more. I used to kind of enjoy cleaning that stuff out when I was done cleaning cages. What else are your canines good for right!?!?
Jeff
That's right... Aspen shavings! I have tried Aspen in all my baby cages and in about 20 - 2' x 2' cages and my Boas seem to be loving it! I love it too! This weekend my good long time old buddy Vence is coming over to help me make the big huge monstrous switcheroo. As you might expect, this is a little bit of a job. I had 60 - 30 lb. bags of this bedding delivered. I have been using the exact same substraight for all the years I have been keeping Boas. These 17 years have seen a couple of semi loads of newspaper, all laid flat, come and then go soiled with a mixture of urates, Boa POOP, and baby slime. I must say I am very happy to see it all go. While the Aspen cost more for the product itself, we no longer will spend countless hours unfolding newspaper. No more ink stains. No more paper cuts. No more stained Albinos from the black ink.
In addition I have been using plain dry clay kitty litter without any perfumes or scents of any kind under the newspaper. This was to make sure my lovely bride of more than 22 blissful years, love of my life who worships the ground I walk on, now did not have to smell the vapors from fresh hot steamy rat hair infested need I say usually brown Boa POOP. Of course we only had a few Boas when I started and we have a few more now and she does wash the hundreds or water bowls but she has never ever had one whiff of steamy stinky Boa POOP. Not once. Yea right. The kitty litter does help keep the smell down but is the cause of many very snotty sneezes after a long day of Boa Poop shoveling and urate scraping.
We will be using a shop vac to clean out all the yucky kitty litter, urate scraps and misc POOP chunks and will also be using that same shop vac, dubbed the "Crap Vac" by Mark Kennedy, as the valuable stinky POOPER scooper in the future. We will be picking up the big chunks and vacuum the rest. I can't wait to start cleaning this stuff! I am building a special canister for the vacuum so I can put a plastic bag in it to haul out the POOP as it were. I can't wait!!!!
I'll keep yawl posted! I wonder if this means I won't have that Boa POOP under my finger nails any more. I used to kind of enjoy cleaning that stuff out when I was done cleaning cages. What else are your canines good for right!?!?
Jeff