 Hey there, my name is Allison. Welcome to The Tiny Herd, where we talk about everyday pet care for guinea pigs, rabbits, and other small pets. Some of the most popular videos on my channel are my cleaning videos, whether I'm cleaning my entire pet room or just my cages. But on those videos, I get a lot of questions about the different cleaning supplies that I use. So in today's video, I'm going to be taking you through my top five cleaning products that I use with my pets. All right, so I do want to say really quickly that nothing in this video is sponsored. These are just the things that I really like to use and have made my life so much easier when it comes to pet cleaning and just cleaning in general. So let's just go ahead and jump into the products, and I'll tell you what they all are and why I prefer them. So the first thing I'm going to mention is a product that I use every single day to spot clean my cages, and that is my litter scoop and dustpan. A lot of people ask me why I use a litter scoop instead of a brush in a dustpan, and really it's just personal preference. A handheld brush and a dustpan will work just fine. You can get them at the dollar store, but I like to use a litter scoop that's meant for like a cat litter box, because it tends to get the hay off of the fleece a little bit better in my opinion. You just use it sideways to scoop the poops up into the dustpan, just like you would a brush. But I think that scooping motion, it kind of scrapes the hay off of the fleece. It doesn't affect my fleece at all, but it works really well for getting the hay up. So I just prefer that method over using a brush. I just think it takes a little bit less time, and it's a little bit faster and easier to get all that hay cleaned up. So that is why I use a litter scoop instead of a brush, but that is for sure my number one cleaning product since I use it every single day to spot clean my cages. The second thing I want to mention is probably a little bit weird if you've never heard about this before, but it is actually white vinegar. So I buy the big gallon jugs of white vinegar from the grocery store. It's really cheap and it works as a really, really effective and safe cleaning product for your pets. So I use it for wiping down my cages, cleaning the bunny litter box. I can even throw it in the washing machine with my liners if they're getting kind of smelly or I want to get them extra clean. So this works really well. You just mix it 50% water, 50% vinegar and put it in a spray bottle and that will work perfect to wipe down your cages or any litter boxes or anything like that. Pretty much any pet surface, you can wipe down with that and it gets it pretty clean. The only downside of using vinegar is it doesn't smell great because it smells like vinegar. So a lot of times when I'm done wiping down cages, I will take a damp paper towel and just go back over it to kind of like rinse it off and get rid of that smell because your pets probably don't really like that smell either. So that's the only thing that's kind of a con with that. But other than that, it is a great cleaning solution. I use it to clean my cages and my litter box, like I said, it works really well. So highly recommend that and it's very cheap. The next thing I want to mention is definitely my shop vac. So this is a little bit more expensive, but it's something that I highly, highly recommend. It has made my life so much easier, especially with all of the hay. So I will link the shop vac that I have down below, as well as one that is a little bit smaller. If you live in an apartment, the smaller one can be a really good option. Or if you just don't have as many pets. I used to use this one when I lived in an apartment and it worked really well to get the hay out of my carpet. So a shop vac just works really well because it can suck up bedding and hay and all those different things since they are meant to be used for like woodworking and things like that. So they can handle a little bit bigger of pieces instead of clogging up your normal vacuum. So this has made my life so much easier. I highly recommend them. They're so worth the money. It's going to save you money in the long run because you're not constantly breaking a nicer vacuum. So again, highly recommend. I could not live without this thing with the number of pets that I have now. So shop vac is definitely on the list. The next thing I want to mention is this pet hairbrush. I don't really know what to call it. Basically it is this metal brush type thing that you can use on furniture or carpet or really anything that is going to be okay to brush on it. But it works really well to get pet hair out of things. So with having a long haired bunny and just having two white rabbits in general, their hair is pretty obvious when it starts to stick to things. So this brush has worked really, really well for us to get hair out of the carpet and off of bedding and off the bottom of furniture and things like that. So I don't even know how I found this thing. I think my boyfriend found it on Amazon or like in an Instagram ad. But it works really well. It came in a pack of two and it's worked great. We mostly use it for getting hair out of carpet or in the places where the bunnies lay the most, we'll use it there so that we're not constantly just having like a film of hair, bunny hair on things. So if you have bunnies, I highly recommend this, especially if they're free roam and they get hair all over your stuff. And then the last thing I want to mention is my carpet cleaner. So I actually have a like handheld carpet cleaner. It's more of a spot cleaner. It's not like a big vacuum size one that can do a whole room. But it works really, really well if you have bunnies or if you just need like a more specific like spot cleaner type carpet cleaner. And it has worked really well for me. I honestly don't know what I did before it. It's made my life so much easier, especially having free roam rabbits. Sometimes they just randomly decide that there's a new place that they want to be their bathroom. And they'll just do that. And I have to clean it up before I can move a litter box into that spot. So this carpet cleaner has worked super well for that. It cleans really well. It really, really does. And it's worked on so many different messes. We use it when our dog makes messes in the basement as well. And it's just worked great. So I highly recommend this as well, especially if you have free roam rabbits or really if you just have dogs or cats or even if you just have kids that makes messes in your house. It works super well and it's super easy to just pick up and carry around. So highly recommend that as well. So thank you so much for watching today's video. I hope you enjoyed and got some ideas on cleaning products you can use with your pets. Everything that I mentioned in this video will be linked down below as well as any other relevant links. Let me know what your favorite cleaning products are down below in the comments and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye.