Installing Indoor Cat Tree

[Mrs T]

I saw on the forum a while ago someone had posted a good receipe for a dust bath, which included mite powder, thought I might make my girls a proper dust bath, does anyone know the receipe or how I might find it, or something similar, at the moment I have just been putting dry soil from the garden in the corner of their run.

[Laura & CTB]

I think we all use different things depending what's available! Some people use a soil or ash mixture, I use sand (the stuff that goes in playpits for kids) and mix Diatom or Red mite powder in.

 

I have a trug tub in their run for this purpose, it's easily big enough for the two of them to get in together and helps to stop the sand flying everywhere .

[Edgeman]

Hi,

 

I let mine out for the first time last Saturday and they eventually had a bath in the dry soil. All three of them togthter.

 

Since then they have not bothered bathing at all and we let them out each night.

 

I did give them some bird sand to bath in whilst there in the run but hey were more intrested in walking through it

 

How many baths should they have each week ?

[chelsea]

when its nice weather mine dustbathe every day in the afternoon in the garden.

 

You can make a dustbath out of anything really - playsand, compost, dirt from the garden, either individually or mix it all up together.