Thought I'd post this up, see what other recycled things pet owners give their pets!
Here are my recycled via. the pets things:
Bottle tops - these make brilliant food, water and calcium bowls for my geckos! I have a whole load of bottle tops saved up to use
Egg boxes - I cut these up to make little hides for my hatchling geckos, they are the perfect size!
Medium-sized cardboards boxes - plenty of shop-bought stuff for my corn snake Silver in his vivarium, but what is his favourite hide? A plain old cardboard box! He also has a bamboo tray in his vivarium to create a ledge lol
Boxes and tubs - why waste money on those expensive treat balls/cubes that will take 5 seconds for you dog to destroy? Instead I create treat containers for my dog out of cardoard boxes, cartons, in fact anything that is safe to use! Cut a hole in it, fill it with treats and present it to the dog! Sure, they'll wreak it in no time but hey, at least it didn't cost you anything!
Toilet roll tubes - ah, good old toilet roll tubes, perfect for so many critters from hamsters to snakes! They can chew on them, sleep in them, crawl through them, cut them up and they make nice hides for baby geckos...so much that can be done with a simple cardboard tube!
Millie & Fly the Border Collies
You are wonderful.. You should be on Blue Peter. Clever girl and it is really recycling and money saving too!!
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Tish said: You are wonderful.. You should be on Blue Peter. Clever girl and it is really recycling and money saving too!!
Haha not to mention the pets seem to love it, if Silver's love of his cardboard box is anything to go by...he never wants to leave it! I have it hidden by his substrate and cork bark to keep the setting looking good lol
Great to see you back on line Tish.
Definitely a touch of the Blue Peters there Kat!
I use margerine tubs and yoghurt cartons for my bird suet mixes - does this count!! And Lola likes to carry things when she is on her walkies, so empty plastic bottles come in useful for that. Oh! and currently my tortoises are in separate shoe boxes in the spare fridge, sleeping on old bank statements we have shredded.
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Susan H said: Definitely a touch of the Blue Peters there Kat! I use margerine tubs and yoghurt cartons for my bird suet mixes - does this count!! And Lola likes to carry things when she is on her walkies, so empty plastic bottles come in useful for that. Oh! and currently my tortoises are in separate shoe boxes in the spare fridge, sleeping on old bank statements we have shredded.
What an excellent use for old bank statements! Even better for bills! lol
Hi Kat Tai, Great thread!
I save egg boxes, some from school too for the crickets container (gecko food).
I am also using egg boxes for the mealworms I am breeding, (which are doing well).
I use plastic milk bottle tops to put the special cricket food in. (Mushy mess)
My birds like playing with the bells on ribbon that come on the Lindt chocolate rabbits / reindeer.
I have recycled a furry hood off my sons thick fleece (he'd grown out of it). I made it into a snuggle nest for Mocha my cornsnake. He used to have a hamster fluffy snuggle from Pets at home when he was a baby but grew out of it. I really recommend this for Silver Kat Tai. Mocha loves his.
When I had my rabbits years ago they used to love ripping up the old Yellow Pages - good enrichment for rabbits. I really recommend this for rabbit owners. People will quite happily donate them.
Oh I save kitchen roll tubes for my other half's gerbils.
Hi Tish
Glad to see that you are back here
Yes, Blue Peter would be a great thing for the "one your made earlier kind of thing".
I do not have any pets at the moment and would not make out that I have "or imagine I have". OH and myself have considered buying Guinea Pigs but not seriously yet. It would be a duel effort, and a mutual agreement anyway.
We will see, and if we do we will contribute towards the environment every way we can.
Regards
Kathy and Dave
Guinnea pigs are lovely pets Blackbird, the Sheltie long haired breed are really nice. If you can keep them indoors this is better as they can't cope with the cold very well. They squeak/squeal when they are excited to see you. Good for eating left over veggies too, e.g. carrot tops, brocoli stalks etc. Stuff you would just normally throw away / compost.
Our puppy Jack recycles everything at the moment - he has just had an empty teabag carton with a few doggy biscuits in it which has given him great entertainment for the past hour - box now totally shreded and biscuits in tummy! If you are in the loo he sits outside waiting for the sound of change of loo roll - yeepee another toy. Same goes for kitchen roll. All plastic cartons have to be carried around for at least a day before they can be discarded and plastic bottles with water in roll beautifully around the garden (when there's no snow). Will have to rethink our recycling when he grows up!