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Shredded paper as a substrate?

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dfree

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Hi! Me again. Thanks for all the great advice. We actually got our girl on Saturday afternoon. She finally after 2 days ate last night. I had to just leave her in the dark with the pinkie and after 20 min, she finally decided to eat. Anyway, right now she is in a rubbermaid type container until we get the 30x12x12 cage from my cousin in a month. We are using several layers of paper towels for now so she has something to bury herself in, and she has a "hide box" in there (nothing more than a Stouffers Lasagna microwave entree container washed-hole cut in it and filed for sharp edges-turned upside down), and a water dish. I am wondering if anyone has used or knows if it would be safe to use shredded newspaper or shredded copy paper for bedding as opposed to buying the Aspen snake bedding. We have so much shredded paper at work that I would have access to anytime I wanted, but I don't want to use it if it is going to hurt ther. A coworker uses it for bedding for her chickens, but a snake is different since it is crawling through the paper as opposed to just laying on it. Any ideas?
 
I wondered about this as well at one time and was considering doing it. If you can be fairly sure there are no staples in there, I don't think it would hurt. Also people in my office are lazy and tend to drop all kinds of garbage into ours. It's probably not as absorbant as other choices, but since it's free, you can probably really use a lot of it.
 
I have used it without a problem. Newsprint is kind of dirty, the ink comes off. It is a vegatable oil based ink so it's not a problem other than appearance. Copy paper works great.
 
I use shredded news and copy paper all the time. Good way to take care of bills, kids papers, etc. I also shred up some paper towels.

Wayne
 
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