Quote Originally Posted by frankykeno View Post
If you have any old phone books laying around they also make excellent nesting material for rats (both ASF and regular sized ones). I always have a stack of old telephone books around so I just rip a few pages into long strips and there you go. The rats, especially the ASF's, seem to love making nests out of this thin paper and it doesn't seem to increase any urine smells since they don't tend to piddle where they nest. The females can mound it over their pinks and it's light enough to cover them without smothering them. Great way to reuse these old books.
Hey, this is a great idea! I just rescued an old phone book from the recycle bin... I've been putting the empty toilet paper and paper towel rolls in the ASF tanks and they seem to like using it as a hidy hole. I'll add the phonebook and see what they make of it.