I use a softwood bedding from PetCo (this stuff; super cheap and super compressed). I originally used pure pine, which had a super strong pine smell (but I like the smell, so no biggy) and just masked the rodent odor. I switched to the softwood PetCo bedding, and started putting some clay cat litter and baking soda on top of it (because the mice mix it well enough themselves), and the smell stays down well enough that I can go 10 days without cleaning if I go purely on smell.


Now, when I was asking about keeping the smell down over on another website, I was told many times by many people that vanilla extract does not work, and sometimes makes smell worse. Does it REALLY work?