 Hey guys, welcome back to the tiny herd. Today is Sunday. It's kind of a lazy Sunday But I'm going to be productive today So we are going to be doing some pet laundry pet chores and I'm gonna take you guys along with me So let's get into it Spot cleaning cages starting with the bowl. So I do this Pretty much every day miss it But if I miss it then I do it the next day or otherwise it'll get if you have fleece You really need a spot clean every day when I say I miss a day. That's like Not very often like normally I spot clean every day. I just want to be Like realistic with you guys cuz I mean you if you use fleece, you need to use it correctly You need to be spot cleaning but Also life happens so if you miss one day Every once in a while It's not the end of the world Just do it as soon as you can Because nobody wants Their pets to be living In a mess. It's not healthy Your cage is not gonna smell good Your room's not gonna smell good Your pets are not gonna stay healthy for very long if you do that. So Do your spot cleaning and hopefully you guys find me doing these videos Motivating I feel like I've kind of done a lot of like spot cleaning and cleaning cage videos lately But you guys seem to really like them And if you guys really like them, then I will keep making them. So definitely let me know down below in the comments if you Do enjoy these or like this video if you do enjoy these a lot of you guys say you do so hopefully this is not too Repetitive on my channel spot cleaning is also super satisfying like Once you get in the habit of doing it It only takes if you only had one guinea pig cage It'll literally take you five minutes a day and if you did it twice a day then 10 minutes a day like I only spot clean mine once a day because they stay pretty good but Literally takes no time Obviously it takes some time what I just said it's not doesn't make sense, but It doesn't take very long. It keeps your pets happy and healthy. I gotta get them some hay And it's really satisfying. So honestly, I kind of enjoy doing it So hopefully you guys Enjoy watching it. This cage is definitely My worst I would say maybe not like the worst mess wise But it's the biggest pain in the butt to clean because it's a loft so I'm considering taking the loft off because honestly, it's just like They don't go up there. Like I don't even clean up there Because they don't go up there like look at it right now. I hope you guys can see it That's like I don't clean it like that's as bad as it gets it needs spot cleaned right now because I haven't spot cleaned it in forever, but like they don't even go up there So it like really doesn't even matter So I'm thinking about taking it off completely Because there's not really a point in having it if they don't use it when it just makes my life harder That makes sense And they would have more space in the bottom honestly because the ramp wouldn't be in the way So ramps like right in the middle obviously The middle of the floor It's hard to clean around Great, I think I got All of that Right. I'm also be setting up my cages to do some hay comparison for another video that's coming actually this Friday so I'm gonna be setting up Some hay bags and they're cages for that and I'll show you guys what I do for that other than Taking care of the animals and making videos. I've really just been focusing on getting stuff ready for my Etsy store launch If you guys would be interested in seeing like Behind the scenes of that let me know I'm I don't know whether I should post that on this channel If that would be interesting to you guys I've been posting some on tiktok and like Instagram reels Because I do have a separate Instagram for my shop So make sure if you haven't followed the tiny herd shop, I'll put it on the screen you go follow because The countdown the five days counting down to my shop launch, which will be July 1st I'm gonna be doing five days of giveaways of things for that will be in my shop and Gift cards and stuff like that So you definitely don't want to miss that if you're interested in getting something from my shop you could win something And I'm gonna have all kinds of stuff just to like give you guys an Idea like sneak peek of some of the stuff. I'm gonna have I'm planning Custom acrylic name plates for cages I'm gonna have a whole bunch of different like guinea pig rabbit stickers animal stickers I'm gonna have some stuff for other pets to like rats and ferrets and chinchillas What else I'm gonna have Well, you guys can see what I'm doing and you didn't just look at the wall or something So I have their cage done. I need to put their tunnel back So that's the stuff I'm gonna have in my Etsy shop just to start with I'm gonna have some pre-made fleece things I'm going to have Probably some prints. I'm gonna have custom key chains. Everything's gonna be kind of like fun like custom or Acrylic or like cute things, but everything's going to have like a small animal Spin on it because it's the tiny hurt So there's not a lot of like gifts and that sort of thing that I can find even on like Etsy that are specifically geared towards like guinea pig and rabbit and small animal owners There's like a lot of fleece and there's a lot of Like I don't know a lot of stuff to me is just like not cute like I want cute stuff and I just don't see a lot of it. That's like really cute. It's like all the same clip art and Or it's like guinea pigs with like hats on and stuff, which is like cute But like I'm not gonna buy that and I don't find a lot that like I want to buy So I'm I have a lot of ideas. So let me know What you guys Kind of want to see eventually I'm going to have like I'm hoping to have like hay tunnels and hay racks and that sort of thing But we have to like test those designs and like figure out the wood and all of that So that won't be coming from the start, but that probably will be coming in the future Just to let you guys know So long story short was my question was let me know if you guys want to see more behind the scenes of that stuff And then make sure you go follow my shop Instagram So that you can stay up to date on That but it's been a lot of fun to work on that stuff. What's he doing? Hello? They have to check that's one of my favorite things guinea pigs do is after you clean something or clean their cage They have to like inspect everything and I just think it's adorable Especially like Lily she like talks to herself like she makes little sounds as she like wanders around It's like my favorite thing. It's adorable. I love when she does that It's just a cute little subtle noise. We're talking to herself Can you pigs just arm a fave? Obviously I have six of them That's why I really enjoy like those of you that have your guinea pigs in your bedroom That's probably like super nice. I really enjoy having a Pet room because I can just like sit in here in the chair and just like work on my laptop If I want or play on my phone Just sit and watch everyone Like it's just really nice to have the space to do that and just have a nice pet room eventually Well, I guess it depends on what happens if I ever get my rescue started or whatever anyways But though I still have personal pets But you guys can probably tell like it's not great to have carpet in here Especially like if you see over there ice I have a like spot carpet cleaner like look what they've done under there I don't know what the deal is. They've always been really good about their litter box until like The last like year or so, I guess and I don't know like what it is But I have like a spot Carpet cleaner and I have to use it literally every week Because for some reason the bunnies just have certain spots and that's why I like have the tile down and they just like have gone around it So eventually we're gonna have Different flooring in here like I want to put Like hardwood or tie like not tile not real hardwood not real tile, but like vinyl flooring or whatever So that it can be cleaned and then probably since we have the bunnies Probably either get like a big rug or get like those carpet tiles that you can just peel one tile up and clean it and put it back Because that would just be a lot better for having pets then How does now? Because I'm just constantly cleaning the carpet Which is just how it is when you have animals, you know, but Eventually it's not gonna like the carpet's gonna be like ruined Even if you keep cleaning it. We are on to the little babes cage I don't have a whole lot to talk about. Hopefully this isn't like a super boring Talk-through of me spot cleaning. This is like today's Sunday so I'm just kind of like doing a general like day of Being productive. I mean, I've been working on a lot of website and Etsy stuff this week because basically what I'm doing is Trying to relaunch the tiny herd as more of like a business and a brand instead of it just being my YouTube channel, so I've been working on that stuff today, but I've also been like doing pet laundry and Putting that away just kind of like general product like productive things So I'm spot cleaning cages a little early today just because it's easier to film honestly when it's lighter out it's better lighting but I just it's nice to just like kind of Go at my own pace today I like Sundays honestly because it's kind of just like a reset day for me I can get ready for the week like I probably should have gone to the grocery store today, but I did not but I did pet stuff and That's the stuff that Sometimes like that's the stuff that can get pushed to the side and I don't like that because then that just Caused it can cause all kinds of problems, and I don't want anything to like I don't want to run out of pet laundry or You know not have liners and need to clean cages or something like that like I just don't want to get behind on things so just doing things today I Can stay up on it Really doesn't take like laundry so easy to do the way that I do it because I shake everything out first While I'm cleaning cages, so I don't have to take everything outside honestly like Some people probably don't like that But I literally just shake off my liners onto the floor of this room and then I vacuum it up Like some people comment on my cage cleans and they're like why is your floor so dirty by the end? And it's literally because I shake my fleece off onto the floor Because I know I'm gonna be vacuuming anyways, and it's pretty much just hay and poop and like There's already hay and poop on the floor like I vacuum more than once a week most of the time because if it would be a disaster but I know I'm gonna vacuum it up, so I just Put it on the floor, and then I vacuum it up, and then I don't have the extra step of taking my stuff outside And shaking it off, so that's my logic there And it works really well, then I just take it straight downstairs throw it in the washer and Then I we've been putting liners in the dryer But when I put them in the dryer We put them on like the low heat setting and tumble like mostly it's just like air It's not like actually heat drying them It's just like air drying them basically because if you put too much heat on your liners one It can take like the wicking properties away from it I don't know why like certain fleeces do it and certain ones don't so I don't know like I don't know the chemical reason for that but I don't want my fleece to lose the wicking properties and It also shrinks it and I'm Obviously don't want that either because I make all my own fleece And I don't want to have to be making it all the time because I'm not taking care of it So that's just kind of a tip on if you have fleece To don't put it in the dryer or put it on like no heat in the dryer that see that poop just went everywhere These microfiber rugs the pigs love them, but they're like kind of a pain to clean because The poop sticks in them as soon as I'm done doing this. I'm gonna go around and show you guys how I'm gonna set up hay bags Because I want to do comparison for my hay comparison video I want to see how everybody likes everything, but I don't want to risk them not liking the hay and then not eating enough hay So what I'm gonna do is just basically put two hay bags in every cage So they have one of their normal hay and one of the new hay and that'll kind of be a good test because if they eat The new hay over their normal hay then that means they like it And if they don't then they don't like it. I've already tested the oxbow Western Timothy So I'm not gonna have to do that. I might test it again just because and then I'm doing the same thing With the bunnies. I'm putting that hay rack as the Regular hay and the other hay rack is like then the new Timothy hay because if they Eat it out of the other rack then I know they actually like it because they don't actually eat that much hay out of that hay rack on a regular basis Like sometimes they do and sometimes they don't like they've been eating it a lot lately but Actually think they have the oxbow Timothy hay in there right now because the bunnies actually really like Timothy hay They just don't get it that often. All right, so everybody's clean I'm good to go put their toys back All right, so let's do hay bags here I'm gonna wash my hands first All right, so I wash my hands We're good to go. I'm gonna get out Some hay bags. I have to remember where I put them. Okay, they're under here. Okay, so I have my hay bags here So the boys need another one anyways because They go through that so fast. So they gonna put the other one over here So I need to get hooks whole thing of hooks for hay bags And I know somebody's gonna ask I need to cut that off I do make my own hay bags You can get them on Etsy I'm thinking about making them for my Etsy shop, but I'm not sure yet because they're kind of a pain in the butt to make but I Do make mine So I'm gonna put this here. So they have to obviously they need hay in that one also All right, so I'm gonna take this big hay rack from them. This is like my favorite one So I wish I Need to make more of them that big because they're so nice Okay, so I'm gonna get little babes these two I'm gonna take and the rest of this is honestly crumbs. So, okay So now Let's fill our hay racks. So first I'm gonna give everybody That needs it some of this. This is our normal hay. This is blue grass hay from KMS hay loft I've used this for like six years now. It's great Use this for like six years now. It's great It's always really highest consistent quality. I love it all the pets like it They eat it up. It's not stalky. It's not dusty and I'm not it's really allergic to it like I am Timothy Hicks it's like Nutritionally the same pretty much as orchard grass Okay, so everybody has normal hay Normal hay everybody has blue grass I'm gonna grab One of the other brands that I have all right. I showed you guys this in a haul But these are the other brands that I have I've already tried the Western Timothy like I told you guys So we're gonna grab one of these other ones I think I'm just gonna start with this Vitacraft because it's on top and it's easy Anderson, this is hay And again, I'm severely allergic to Timothy hay. So by the end of this video, I'll probably be sneezing but Gotta do what we got to do. This is really dusty So I'll probably use the same footage for the hay compares a video a little bit of that and then Give the boys some we'll see which one I'm gonna have hives And probably have an asthma attack. I don't actually have asthma. I just You know have really bad allergies and I start wheezing and Can't breathe for like 15 minutes, which is why I don't feed Timothy hay. Okay, so that is our chores for tonight Everybody has water Everybody has hay The bunny litter box is all right. It'll get cleaned tomorrow We're all on my planet later, but it'll get cleaned tomorrow I told you guys I was allergic to hay I've started sneezing So I'm gonna go ahead and end this video and I will see you guys in the next one. Bye