>You can bake soil yourself, I hear, but it stinks to high heaven I guess.
Plus, you never know what kinds of chemicals have seeped into the ground
around neighborhoods from pesticides, fertilizers, etc.
I have done this, sterilize soil in the oven. You have to cook it pretty
high for
a pretty long time and the smell is incredible. Trust me. You don't want
to
do it. :)
>Advantages are: It satisfies their need to burrow, and their need for
stimulation. It's absolutely amazing to watch! You can dump the soil
outside when you're done (with added fertilizer compliments of the gerbils)!
>
>I have a couple (not-so-great) pictures I could email to anybody's who's
interested. Let me know.
>
>Molly
The shredded recycled paper bedding I use, they seem to take great
pleasure in digging through. The problem in my place with dirt or sand
is that the cats are not always so perfect about litterbox training, so I
have to face the top of all the plants with plastic canvas (I buy a black
kind, it doesn't show) to keep the cats from using it...and a cage like
this would draw too much attention from them.
Deb
Rebel's Rodent Ranch
