Alice, if he's just out there to do his buisness, it's probably not a problem. However, I would suggest using gravel instead -- lasts longer, urine drains right through it. That's what a lot of folks around here like for their "dog litter boxes" if you will.
Yep, the most innocuous things can affect different animals. We lost several pet rats to respiratory infections before discovering that pine shavings were the culprit, so it's not just cedar that's bad for rodents. Black Walnut shavings used as stall bedding can kill horses.
Allison, did you mean try straw, rather than hay? Hay is made out of grasses and legumes (plants like clover and alfalfa). Straw, on the other hand, is made of the leftover stalks of plants like oats and wheat and barley. Hay is edible (for horses, cattle, etc); straw isn't. Also, straw is not normally dusty, while hay can be very dusty - and even if dogs aren't allergic to the dust (fine leaf/grain particles), it probably isn't a good thing for them to be inhaling.
I meant hay since it's more fine and soft. Straw can be too harsh and stemmy. You'd have to buy some expensive high grade hay though because there's some that are just dusty and no softer than straw. There is also some recycled cottony newspaper fluff sold in some big bales that would be really nice and soft too. I don't think they'd eat it.
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We used to use sand in our run ,it was the worse idea, here it's dry so I thought the sand would stay in it's natural state but somehow it turned to dirt and mud, and the dogs were filthy from it all the time.I mind you we only used it for when we wanted them out of the way and potty time so ,it's not like they were in there all day and it still looked dirty, like bad dirt...
We since put fake grass and it is nice, they haven't digged it up or chewed it I can use a soap to rinse it and I notice no smell at all from it and my dogs are clean.It's been fake grass for over a year now.Not a rip in it, you just got to buy the best one you can.
When we took our dog in to the vet for to look at his skin infection, the first thing he asked about was cedar. I didn't even think of his beds. He has an area covered by wood chips he uses as his bathroom. We covered that area with landscaping fabric and put pea gravel over that. Next time we were in, the vet asked about his bedding, and it dawned on us that his beds are filled with cedar. We have removed the beds.
Thinking back on it, the only thing he used the wood chip area for was elimination. He didn't lay down on it or play in that area. So I'm thinking now that if cedar was bothering him, it was probably from his beds.
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