Bedding Review: Excel Burgess vs Oxbow Bedding

Recently I was given a pack of oxbow bedding to try and so I did. I am a Burgess bedding user and have been using 7 bags of it so far. So I think I'm pretty much eligible as an end-user to compare if this oxbow bedding worthy for me to do the switch.

Cotton loves his Burgess....

..... and Charcoal refuses to leave her burgess bag! 

 

I always use a cup of burgess pellet bedding for my bonded bunnies daily and they shared one pee pan. So after one day of use, the pellet bedding really absorbed their urine very well. Look at the sides of the pee pad on the pan, white sides indicate the pellets really absorb very well and hence I do not need to even change the green plastic liner at all. 

Ok, it is Oxbow bedding turn!

Same setup as I would as like any other day. 

I added one cup volume. 

After one day.....the results? See below! 

Underneath of the pee pad. Urine was found leaked and sipped under. Yucks! As the bedding does not absorbs the urine well, urine odor can be detected. Double yucky! 

Well, I could use more Oxbow bedding but that means I would finish the pack faster too. Why use more (Oxbow bedding) when I can use less (Burgess pellet bedding)? 

My verdict?

Pretty obvious right? I will stick to Burgess pellet bedding for now. Period. 

Getting ready for Pet-Assisted Therapy

Charcoal the fashionista!

I am enrolling Cotton and Charcoal to a pet-assisted therapy with a local hospice. It is a meaningful volunteer commitment because the pets get to provide the spiritual and some physical comforts to the patients who are at their end stage of lives. 

Living in the Asian country, there are many taboos and superstition associated to death. Although the patients in the hospice comprehended what will ultimately happened to them when receiving their palliative care, the deeply ingrained culture still very much alive as part of their beliefs. Hence black animals are pretty much not popular with the elderly and so Charcoal is going to have some issues doing the therapy job. 

Fortunately, some advices from the existing pet-assisted therapy volunteers shared that accessorizing their black pet to "break" the all black body and head seems to do the trick. Accessorizing pets make the pets look more outstanding and thereby easier to engage with the patients as there are more topics to talk about. Hence this trick is more receptive to the patients. 

So here I am, decided to accessorize Charcoal with a scarf. The scarf is Velcro stripped. 

Isn't she a beauty in that scarf? 

Out of fun, I also accessorize Cotton for picture taking purposes. 

Cotton: what are you doing? Taking pictures again is it? 

Cotton: ok I pose. What? You cannot see the scarf? Ok I re pose. 

Cotton: ok i re-posed. How do I look?  

Cotton: what do you mean you still unable to get that IT picture???? How about I show you my angry face? 

And so we are ready for our pet-assisted therapy volunteer now! :) 

I also hope to spread some rabbit care education while doing the therapy. So now I could do family bonding with my bunnies, spread comforts and love to patients and educating at the same time. It's more than a win-win, it's a triple winning streak!