Burgess Excel Nap & Nest Luxury Paper Bedding for Small Animals

Bedding is bought on absorbency and thrown out on smell, and the gap between those two moments is the only measure of it that matters to whoever is doing the cleaning out. Everything else — how soft it looks in the bag, what the packaging says about nests — is judged by the animal, who has different priorities.

This is a paper bedding that doubles as litter, made from unused offcuts from teabag production, which is a neat second life for a material that is designed to be absorbent in the first place. Burgess describe it as super absorbent and soft on little paws, and say it spot cleans easily — which is the practical claim, because a bedding you can lift the wet patch out of is a bedding that lasts longer per bag. It suits rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters and other small animals, and comes as a 650G bag.

• 650G bag
• Paper bedding made from unused teabag production offcuts
• Works as both bedding and litter
• Described as super absorbent
• Easy to spot clean, so each bag goes further
• For rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters and other small animals

Nothing here tells you how far a bag goes. Paper bedding is used by volume and sold here by weight, so 650G could fill a hutch or line a litter tray several times depending on how deeply you lay it, and Burgess publish no expanded volume, no absorbency figure and no dust rating to compare it against anything else. If you are switching from a wood-based bedding for dust reasons, that last gap is the one to be aware of — the claim on the pack is softness and absorbency, not low dust.

Who it's for: rabbit and guinea pig keepers who litter train, hamster owners after a nesting material that is not wood shavings, and anyone who would rather spot clean twice a week than strip the whole cage.