Kaytee Clean & Cozy Small Animal Bedding

I purchase paper bedding for my hamster because they get stuffy noses with pine shavings. I have purchased other paper bedding and used with my hamsters with no trouble, but this one just makes SO MUCH dust. My hamsters do not do well with it and makes the cage and everywhere around the cage a mess with the white dust everywhere. Otherwise, it performs as expected.

I love this bedding and so do my boys. It really helps control their urine odor. I will also place a litter pan pad under the bedding on the bottom to absorb the wetness. Would not recommend the pad if you have chewers. My boys aren't chewers, thank goodness. I just wish it was in stock.

I've been using this the whole time I've had rats, and it works really well! It leaves almost no dust and it's fluffy enough that they can cozy up under it if they want to. It also absorbs urine and helps with the smell. I don't see myself ever switching to anything different!

Here's the positive: if your small pet exclusively uses one bathroom area in their enclosure, this stuff is definitely cozy, soft, and snuggly for their BEDDING AREA ONLY. Now the dirt: This bedding is basically shredded up kleenex. Have you noticed how the dust flies when you pull one out of the box? Well this is 20x worse. (99% Dust free...what lab declared THAT?) DUSTY!!! LIKE, I wanted to wear my N95 when cleaning the cage. After scooping everything out, there was always a big ball of straight up dust left behind. Thought my bunny had dust babies. So... speaking of tissues, have you ever had a job for a paper towel and only had toilet paper? Well, this is what happens to this stuff Here's the positive: if your small pet exclusively uses one bathroom area in their enclosure, this stuff is definitely cozy, soft, and snuggly for their BEDDING AREA ONLY. Now the dirt: This bedding is basically shredded up kleenex. Have you noticed how the dust flies when you pull one out of the box? Well this is 20x worse. (99% Dust free...what lab declared THAT?) DUSTY!!! LIKE, I wanted to wear my N95 when cleaning the cage. After scooping everything out, there was always a big ball of straight up dust left behind. Thought my bunny had dust babies. So... speaking of tissues, have you ever had a job for a paper towel and only had toilet paper? Well, this is what happens to this stuff with liquid waste. It doesn't absorb so much as it just turns to pure mush. Useless. I am a clean freak and keep our bunny's cage scooped daily and deep cleaned weekly. Every day, when I got home from work, I could SMELL the cage like it hadn't been touched in days. Gross, gross, gross. This bedding may be the reason some people will take their small pets to the Humane Society, not knowing any better that their pets actually AREN'T smelly. That's no good. And when you sift to get the little poop pellets out, this stuff clings to itself in a matrix that doesn't allow the pellets to sift out without extra work. All around, horrible stuff. And because of the frequent changes, I'm already getting more bedding a month later, of course, a DIFFERENT kind. … more

This product is awesome! I have a guinea pig that had his foot amputated and needed to change over the bedding temporarily to help treat the bumblefoot that had developed afterward on his other 3 feet. This product is so soft and allows very easy cleanup so I’ve switched over both of my guinea pigs from shavings to kaytee clean and cozy. Love it!

I used this for my puppies. It’s very absorbent Puppies love it and I haven’t had any health issues using it. It’s expensive but actually works better thinly spread. Extremely low dust and not the negative issues I’ve had with wood chips.

overall worked well for my syrian hamster. lasted a while with regular spot cleaning and occasional full cleans.

It has been decades since I owned a hamster. Pine shavings was it for choices back then. This product was not available at that time. I am impressed by the soft and easy use of this bedding. No odor. No horrible scattering and most of all Jill loves it. Highly recommend.

Before I was using the Carefresh rainbow colored bedding and the cage started getting smelly the very next day with only one hamster. I was changing the cage every 5 days because of it. This bedding is so much better! Can hardly notice any smell from the cage after 4 days. This is great! And the hamster seems to be enjoying it more as well, it’s softer and easier to build with. Definitely more absorbent. I’ll buy this from now on!

This is my review for the natural Kaytee bedding: For me personally, I prefer Kaytee bedding over other brands. Some of the bigger name brands smell worse to me and don’t feel as comfortable. This bedding isn’t perfect (but what bedding is). It does tend to carry a little more dust from the paper than I prefer, but I have seen a lot worse. I also prefer this over wood shavings. I have more peace of mind using this. It seems to be more comfortable, smells better and I don’t have to worry about how it’s treated and such like I would have to if it were wood. I prefer bedding that hasn’t been dyed so this is a better option. This product works the best for my situation. If you have a small cage for This is my review for the natural Kaytee bedding: For me personally, I prefer Kaytee bedding over other brands. Some of the bigger name brands smell worse to me and don’t feel as comfortable. This bedding isn’t perfect (but what bedding is). It does tend to carry a little more dust from the paper than I prefer, but I have seen a lot worse. I also prefer this over wood shavings. I have more peace of mind using this. It seems to be more comfortable, smells better and I don’t have to worry about how it’s treated and such like I would have to if it were wood. I prefer bedding that hasn’t been dyed so this is a better option. This product works the best for my situation. If you have a small cage for your hamster then this bedding is probably going to get stinky pretty quickly and you’ll need to change it out a lot more to avoid that. Mine are in larger enclosures so smell isn’t an issue and this is why I like this bedding. It absorbs well and makes spot cleaning easy. I only recommend this for small rodents though. I do not see this working well for a guinea pig or anything larger than that. I find this reasonably priced. It is a bit expensive, but I like buying from Chewy because it’s slightly cheaper. Overall I recommend this product for anything smaller than a guinea pig. Thanks Chewy for wonderful customer service! I feel like that review could be used here as well. One thing I would like to add is that this white bedding does feel softer than the brown natural bedding and I like that this is white because when it’s soiled you can easily see it and makes spot cleaning so easy! I use mostly the natural but always have at least one bag of this on hand as well. … more