You know how scents remind you of places you've been before? I've visited a large facility, and like Judy, there was a scent, but it wasn't an offensive one to me.


A few weeks later, I was home, cleaning enclosures, and one that was just a bit urine and urates smelled similar to that smell, and it took me back to that time and place and I remember thinking - oh! So that's what I smelled.

Like Judy said, with such a large collection, it's inevitable that there are going to be dirty cages, although not the same ones every day. Even with my 16, everyone is clean and dry tonight (after cleaning up two tubs that were defecated in) and tomorrow, there will be maybe three more that will have defecated between now and then, the next night, some others will need my attention. It's not that my collection isn't cleaned, it's just inevitable that "someone's" going to do something each day. I just clean each day!