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What do you use in the dog houses to keep your dogs warm? Straw, Hay, Wood chips, What kind etc???

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wheat straw in winter nothing in summer

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straw.

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straw

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I use a hay called Coastal Grass in the winter, in the summer i will use either Pine or Cedar Chips.

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Any others?

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I use good clean prairie hay. I would use love grass hay if I could find it. Prairie hay doesn't track out or hold moisture and bad as straw and love grass is even better about both. Use to be able to find it up around Shawnee but haven't seen any around here.

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Brome hay.

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STRAW , WITH CEDAR CHIP'S . ALSO HAVE BOX OPENING'S COVERED WITH STRIPS OF RUBBER - KINDA LIKIE A DOGGIE DOOR IT WORKS GREAT , YOU CAN PUT YOUR HAND BACK IN THE BOX IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER AMD YOU CAN TELL A BIG DIFFERENCE IN TEMP .

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MARSH GRASS BEDDING IN THE WINTER--DOES NOT CARRY MOLD

CEDAR CHIPS IN SUMMER--DOES'NT HARBOR BACTERIA LIKE PINE AND SEEMS TO CONTROL FLEAS AND TICKS

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straw all year, Its hollow so they stay warmer in winter.

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Thanks for the info. I haven't heard of some of these types of hay before.

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Cedar Shavings in winter. Nothing in summer.

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i use ceaderchips in the summer keeps fleas off them and straw in the winter

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