ASF's really odorless?

doesn't the urine and crap stink?

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Originally Posted by pliskin

doesn't the urine and crap stink?

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yes, lol. :P

It should smell....

there is less odor compared to mice, or rats

nope they crap roses and piss febreze

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Originally Posted by llovelace

there is less odor compared to mice, or rats

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imo and minimal e, not so much less as different.... if that makes sense. to me, the asf's smell worse, more of an acrid smell, but then again, it takes longer to notice a smell from them than it does the mice and rats. i replace half the bedding once a week, and do a full clean on weekends. so far, none have been intolerable, though the rabbits are close...

They smell, trust me!!!!

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Originally Posted by 771subliminal

nope they crap roses and piss febreze

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that's odd mine crap violet's,must be a different line.

i havn't had mine that long, only about 2 months or so, i only find that they smell if you "disturb" the pee corner. but Im keeping them in a pretty small room and i cant smell them when i walk in there sooo... ya they're poop stinks but its not noticeable unless your moving it around.

The Pee corner smells horrible, very, very horrible. but it takes longer to smell and doesnt stick to you like rat stank does.

i moved all my rats and mice to the garage and kept the soft furs inside and my room doesn't smell yet, its bin a week. before it only took about 3 days and you could smell them. so they smell alot better than the rats and mice.

They are not odorless, But less odor than Mice or Rats.
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It's not that they stink less, its that they pee less. If you notice your water bottles stay full twice as long with asf's compared to rats/mice so hence the reason they pee less. (and stink less)

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Originally Posted by Kevin_Hornby

It's not that they stink less, its that they pee less. If you notice your water bottles stay full twice as long with asf's compared to rats/mice so hence the reason they pee less. (and stink less)

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I disagree. hold a fresh dead rat in one hand, and a fresh dead ASF in the other hand. Now smell each.

Rats, themselves, STINK.

ASF's themselves are odorless.

What you said about less urine is true, but I think the odorless qualites of the ASF itself has a lot to do with the overall smell.

Yes rats stink, but what do they smell like? Urine. We have a pet rat that smells the same as any of our ASF's, but we have to clean her house more often to keep her that way.

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Originally Posted by Mike Cavanaugh

I disagree. hold a fresh dead rat in one hand, and a fresh dead ASF in the other hand. Now smell each.

Rats, themselves, STINK.

ASF's themselves are odorless.

What you said about less urine is true, but I think the odorless qualites of the ASF itself has a lot to do with the overall smell.

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Rats do not stink if given an opportunity to get away from their own urine and feces. Male rats do have a musk but on a clean rat you can't smell it unless you hold the rat up to your nose (and even then it doesn't 'stink' per se, but you can smell the difference from a male and a female rat).

You are more than welcome to come by my house anytime you are in Dallas and smell any of my 13 pet rats who are kept in cages that allows them to not have to sit in their own waste and smell them; you will smell warm, clean fur (much like sniffing a cat), and nothing else.