Cotton N Card Ground Cover

The Natural Pet Brand Cotton N Card 30 Liters

The Natural Pet Brand Cotton N Card is a premium, very high-quality mixed bedding made from soft cotton fibers, cardboard, and egg carton pieces. The Natural Pet Brand is known for its superior quality, and this is reflected in this playful bedding: soft, absorbent, airy, and full of texture for searching, digging, playing, and foraging.

At DRD, when it comes to bedding, we focus primarily on comfort, application, enrichment, and how the material aligns with the animal's natural behavior. Cotton N Card distinguishes itself as high-quality mixed bedding for owners who are looking not only for a soft layer but also wish to add extra play opportunities. The combination of cotton and cardboard makes this bedding highly suitable as a top layer, foraging layer, or digging box filling.

✔ Premium cotton and cardboard bedding
✔ Superior quality from The Natural Pet Brand
✔ Soft cotton fibers with a playful cardboard texture
✔ Ideal as a top layer and foraging layer
✔ Fun for digging buckets, scaving, and of course, foraging
✔ Suitable for rodents, rabbits, and ferrets

Why choose Cotton N Card?

Cotton N Card is a playful mixed bedding that combines softness and enrichment. The cotton fibers provide a comfortable, soft base. The cardboard and egg carton pieces add extra structure, allowing animals to search, sniff, drag, nibble, and forage.

The strength of this bedding lies primarily in its dual function. You can use Cotton N Card as a complete soft layer, but it really comes into its own as a top layer on top of an existing base bedding. For example, sprinkle a layer over cotton, hemp, flax, paper, or another suitable bedding and hide some food, herbs, or snacks in between. This immediately turns the bottom into an active foraging area.

For animals that enjoy building and dragging, such as mice, hamsters, gerbils, and rats, the mix is especially interesting. They can use the cotton fibers as soft nesting material and move or break down the cardboard pieces. For guinea pigs, rabbits, chinchillas, degus, and ferrets, Cotton N Card is particularly fun as a soft, playful top layer or digging box material.

For which animals is Cotton N Card suitable?

• Mouse: suitable as a soft, playful top layer or nesting and foraging material. Because mice are social animals and should be kept with other mice of their kind, you can create multiple foraging and nesting spots.
• Dwarf hamster: suitable as a top layer, foraging layer, or soft nest addition. Sprinkle small amounts over a base bedding or use it in a hamsterscaping corner.
• Hamster: suitable as a playful top layer, nesting material, and foraging layer. For Syrian hamsters, you can beautifully combine Cotton N Card with a deeper base layer and natural decor.
• Gerbil: suitable as a top layer and digging box filling. Because gerbils are social animals and should be kept with other gerbils, a spacious digging layer is important. Combine Cotton N Card with a sturdy base layer, hay, cardboard, and gnawing material.
• Dwarf rat: suitable as a soft top layer, nesting material, or burrow filling. Dwarf rats can drag the cardboard pieces around and incorporate them into their enclosure.
• Rat: suitable as a top layer, nesting material, foraging layer, or Ratscaping burrow filling. Rats especially enjoy hiding food or snacks among the cotton and cardboard pieces.
• Guinea pig: suitable as a soft top layer or digging/foraging layer. Because guinea pigs are social animals and should be kept with other guinea pigs, you can create multiple soft and enriching spots.
• Rabbit: suitable as a soft top layer, digging box material, or playful foraging layer. For the daily basics, hay, toilet bedding, and suitable bedding remain important.
• Chinchilla: suitable as a dry, soft top layer or digging box filling. Combine with hay, sand bath, platforms, and gnawing material.
• Degu: suitable as a top layer, digging box filling, or playful foraging layer. Because degus are social animals and should be kept with other degus, you can combine the material with sturdy bedding, a sand bath, platforms, and gnawing material.
• Ferret: suitable as a playful digging or sniffing area, for example in a separate digging box or enrichment corner.

Use & maintenance

Cotton N Card can be used in various ways. As a top layer, it provides extra structure on top of existing bedding. As digging box filling, it creates a fun search and play area. As a full layer, you use it primarily when you want a soft, playful bedding that animals can actively use.

• Use a top layer of at least 5 cm for small rodents.
• For rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, chinchillas, and degus, use about 10 cm or more when you really want to create a play or foraging layer.
• Use a wider layer for a digging box so that animals can really search and dig in it.
• Optionally, scatter herbs, food, or snacks through it for extra foraging fun.
• Regularly replace wet spots, toilet corners, and soiled areas with fresh material.
• Refresh the entire layer when it no longer stays fresh.
• Check how your animal interacts with the bedding upon first use.

Top layer, forage layer and digging bucket

Cotton N Card is particularly strong as a play layer. Sprinkle the mix on top of a base bedding and hide small pieces of food, herbs, or snacks in it. Your animal will then really have to search, dig, and sniff. This makes the enclosure more active and interesting without having to immediately replace the entire bedding.

For small rodents, you can use Cotton N Card as a soft top layer in a hamster or gerbil enclosure. For rats, the mix fits very nicely in a ratscaping digging box, nesting box, or foraging zone. For guinea pigs, rabbits, and ferrets, Cotton N Card is especially fun in a separate digging box or sniffing corner.

Combine with other bedding

Cotton N Card works very well on top of an existing base layer. For example, use a soft cotton bedding, hemp, flax, wood fiber, or paper/cardboard as a base and finish with Cotton N Card as a playful top layer. This way, you combine absorption, comfort, and enrichment in one enclosure.

• Use Cotton N Card as a top layer on top of cotton, hemp, flax, or paper bedding.
• Combine with hay or cardboard for extra nesting and digging structure.
• Hide food or snacks between the cardboard pieces for foraging.
• Use a separate digging box when you want to stimulate targeted play and searching behavior.
• Create clear zones: sleeping, digging, toilet, sand bath, foraging, and resting.

Material & properties

Material: cotton and cardboard.

Capacity: approx. 30 liters.

Properties: premium mix bedding, soft, absorbent, playful, textured, and suitable as a top layer, forage layer, digging bucket filling, or comfort layer.

The combination of cotton and cardboard gives Cotton N Card a distinct function of its own. Cotton makes the bedding soft and comfortable, while cardboard and egg carton pieces provide playful texture. As a result, this mix is ideal when you want to make the enclosure not only soft, but also more active and interesting.

Good to know

Cotton N Card is a premium natural mixed bedding with a playful texture. Use it as a top layer, nesting material, foraging layer, or digging box filling. The correct layer thickness, ventilation, layout, and cleaning routine together determine how well the bedding works in practice.

• Use as a top layer or excavator bucket fill alongside a suitable base bedding.
• Replace wet spots and toilet corners regularly.
• Remove heavily soiled or flattened parts when necessary.
• Combine with hay, cardboard, or other natural materials for extra structure.
• Store the packaging in a dry and tightly sealed place.
• Check the bedding for possible defects before use.
• Check how your animal uses the material upon first use.

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The Natural Pet Brand Cotton N Card is a great choice when you are looking for a premium bedding that combines soft comfort with a playful texture. Thanks to the mix of cotton, cardboard, and egg carton pieces, this bedding is perfect as a top layer, foraging layer, or digging box filling for animals that love to search, drag, dig, and play with their enclosure.