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Chin-Chiller tiles vs. Ice pod

Which ones should I buy

  • Ice Pod

    Votes: 14 87.5%
  • Chin-Chiller Tiles

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Total voters
    16

Pebblesetc

Mama Doe
Which ones should I get?

They're the same price as eachother

Ice pods have to be frozen
Chinchiller tiles have to be chilled but not frozen and I think, as they are granite, they will hold their chill better as it were. Plus Buckley is highly unlikely to chew through a slab of granite.

What do you guys think? I think the tiles but OH thinks the ice pods because they're made for bunnies :roll: (our house wasn't made for bunnies, Buckley still has it! Not to mention my blue little grey bear blankie, my forever friends bowl, a cat litter tray, none of these things were made for bunnies :lol:)

Any ways he told me to ask "the great, wise, and almighty forum" (his words).
 
I've never found a critter yet that lays on either of them, as they are too hard and uncomfortable (I have both - am a sucker for a gimmick! :roll:). My preference is to use a wrapped ice pod or wrapped frozen water bottle (which is just as good, and free!), and tuck it somewhere behind a hiding house, on top of a carrier, or somewhere where they can snuggle up to it, rather than have to lay directly on it.
 
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Mine don't use the ice pods either, but they do like to lick the frost off the outside of them which you wouldn't get on a tile.
 
I've gone for ice pod as although my buns have never had a tile I looked after a chinchilla that had one and it took quite a while to get cold enough and ice pods suprisingly keep cold all day, yesterday it was very hot here and the ice pod had been out since morning to night and it was still slightly cold. Beano can bite through anything I thought but she hasn't managed to make a mark in the ice pod yet! I did think about getting them a tile but Beano's bum might be too big to fit on one!!
 
The thing with the tiles is, they'll either lay on them or they won't, whereas the pods are more flexible with how you use them. To be honest though, I wouldn't waste my money on either if I didn't already have them.
 
I've got both .... sort of.

I have a couple of ice pods and, as already said, the buns avoid them like the plague unless I hide them under a blanket and even then I'm sure they know it's there because they don't lie in that spot as much as they would normally. :roll:

I don't have the specific chinchilla tile but have a couple of huge floor tiles (hubby picked them up for me from a tiling place - they were old samples they no longer needed, so free!). They get used slightly more than the ice pod, but not enough for me to advise somebody to spend much on actually buying any.
 
I've got both .... sort of.

I have a couple of ice pods and, as already said, the buns avoid them like the plague unless I hide them under a blanket and even then I'm sure they know it's there because they don't lie in that spot as much as they would normally. :roll:

I don't have the specific chinchilla tile but have a couple of huge floor tiles (hubby picked them up for me from a tiling place - they were old samples they no longer needed, so free!). They get used slightly more than the ice pod, but not enough for me to advise somebody to spend much on actually buying any.

This.

I have frozen bottles of water placed in random locations, if they are really warm they will go and lie next to them, but most of the time, they ignore them.

I have an old tile from my FiL's home, which i see Ginger lie on occasionally, but can't, in all honesty, see the point in spending money on specialist products, when you can get/make something that does the same job, for free, or a very small amount of pennies :wave:
 
i've got ice pods and bisc and matt like licking the ice off them and then lying next to it. they used to have frozen bottle which they used but preferred to scratch and push them so they rolled away! :roll::lol:
 
I have 5 ice pods for the buns and pigs, and they all quite regularly use them except one guinea. :wave:
 
I'm gonna hold off on buying them until I can face getting in my non-airconditioned car haha.

I found some empty wine bottles, scrubbed them inside and out, 2 thirds filled with water and froze.

His bunnyship is ignoring them even though it is sweltering in my room :roll:
 
I'm gonna hold off on buying them until I can face getting in my non-airconditioned car haha.

I found some empty wine bottles, scrubbed them inside and out, 2 thirds filled with water and froze.

His bunnyship is ignoring them even though it is sweltering in my room :roll:

I enjoy the fact that that's the bottles you could find :lol::lol::lol:!
 
I enjoy the fact that that's the bottles you could find :lol::lol::lol:!

Haha, decided not to use them in the end. Removed them all from the room. Vague recollection that vino bottles have a tendency to explode when frozen.

Looks like it's the car for me!
 
This.

I have frozen bottles of water placed in random locations, if they are really warm they will go and lie next to them, but most of the time, they ignore them.

I have an old tile from my FiL's home, which i see Ginger lie on occasionally, but can't, in all honesty, see the point in spending money on specialist products, when you can get/make something that does the same job, for free, or a very small amount of pennies :wave:

This as well although I haven't got round to finding tiles yet but as the floor in their rooms is lino it keeps quite cool anyway.

I DO have Icepods though, mainly cos our freezer doesn't have enough space for big bottles and the Icepods take up less room. Oh and I got them on offer :oops:
 
Chin-chiller tiles are quite small for a rabbit.

I got some granite floor tiles from Topps and floored half their cage with those :)


The chap was really helpful and recommended granite as the material most likely to stay cold :)
 
Mine enjoy just lying on paving slabs which are in the shade. Or they dig into the bark under the kids trampoline and chill there. They have ignored their ice pod!
 
Ice Pods work great in my experience but when I dropped one on the patio a smelly clear jelly oozed out and a small (easily swolled) stopper landed next to it which kinda put me off them so I've gone back to the old frozen water bottle idea I used to use before I invested in the icepods
 
Mischa actually USED an Icepod today, first time I've seen them actually lay on them rather than just beside them :thumb:
 
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