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Small animal litter and bedding keeps your home tidy and smelling clean

As a part of your small pet health care routine, using the right small pet litter and bedding can keep your small pet healthy and happy. As an added bonus, some small pet litters will mask the scent and help you enjoy a nicer-smelling home all day long.

Whether your companion of choice is a hamster, guinea pig or mouse, you'll want to keep him or her healthy with fresh bedding and litter. The most important thing you can do to ensure your pet's health is to change out the litter regularly. Most sure you dump the box each day and re-fill with fresh bedding. Not only does this keep you little guy healthy, it also cuts down on odors coming from the cage. The smell of fresh pine shavings definitely beat the stale, musty smell of a neglected pet cage.

Different animals do best with different types of bedding, which is why it's important to pick out the right type for your animal. If you have a smaller burrowing animal like a gerbil, you want bedding which lets your pet dig to its heart's content. Peat and straw are good choices for gerbils, because they can be compressed into tunnels and pet hideouts where you little guy can make a home. Straw and peat are also highly absorbent, which means you need to replace them much less frequently.

Larger animals like rats, hamsters and rabbits do well with pelleted paper bedding. Recycled paper pellets from CareFresh are ideal for these larger animals because they are less dusty than other bedding types, which promotes a healthy respiratory system. As a cheaper alternative to paper pellets, wood shavings work well as well. Just make sure you're not buying pine or cedar shavings, because the sap contains irritants which can make your pet sick. Stick with aspen shavings to avoid this risk.

No small pet litter system is complete without a litter box, liners and plenty of scoops to clean up the messes. Boxes range from simple to extravagant, and some litter boxes will even clean themselves after the small pet comes to pay a visit. Whether you are looking for something inexpensive and simple or something that will block odors and clump with ease, you can find the perfect small pet litter for your home at Sears.

Check out our variety of small pet litter formulas from several different brands to take home a bag that will keep your litter box tidy and smelling fresh all day long. From litter boxes to animal bedding and pet travel carriers, we have all the supplies you require for your daily pet care needs.