Kokova Magazine

In the Your Source back garden we have three delightful little ginger Guinea Pigs, who munch our grass, whistle for attention and enjoy being pampered with a few luxuries to make life that little bit sweeter. So when we saw the range of homes available from Omlet this month we just had to share their innovative styles with our readers.

The Eglu Go Hutch is the simple, stylish, straightforward way to keep pets. Suitable for two guinea pigs, 1 dwarf rabbit or even a tortoise, this will make a wonderful home for your little friends. It has been designed to enable rabbits and guinea pigs to express their natural instincts, offering two main areas for your pet to explore. The house is a wonderful hidey-hole where they can eat, sleep and snuggle up in, and the secure 1m run is perfect for a run around and some fresh air.

The biggest benefit of having a hutch and run in one is your pet's freedom to go in and out as it pleases, according to its own routine. As a result, your pet will be happy, relaxed and easier to handle. With wipe-clean surfaces and a slide-out bedding tray it makes cleaning easy, and, made from energy-efficient polymers, it never needs to be treated. It is a hygienic home for your pets, naturally weather resistant, and at the end of its life it can be recycled.

And for our tiny furry friends we were delighted to find the Qute Hamster Cage. Designed with safety and interaction in mind, this innovative hamster hotel doubles as a storage cabinet and side table. The large, deep bedding tray allows your gerbils and hamsters to nest and burrow naturally. The bedding tray is made from virtually unbreakable polycarbonate and is crystal clear so you and your pets have the perfect view of each other. Cleaning your Qute is amazingly quick and simple, in fact, you can clean it in less than 1 minute! You simply Lift 'n' Twist the tube and stow your pets upstairs while you clean the bedding tray. No other small animal house is quite that easy to clean and with a hygienic home, your pets will be healthier and happier.

Omlet are a young and vibrant company who passionately believe in the joy and benefits of keeping animals of all shapes and sizes. They create contemporary, stylish habitats, optimally designed for the needs of pets with a style and attention to detail that makes them a pleasure to own. They also offer a range of fun, quirky and useful wares for your own home and garden, and your family and friends.

Omlet's first foray into home-ware was the Egg Ramp. This clever piece of design provides a stylish new way to store eggs and keep them in date order. To celebrate 10 eggstraordinary years of business, Omlet will be unveiling the Eglu Egg Cup this Easter. A 1/8 scale replica of the Eglu Classic chicken coop reinterpreted as a fun breakfast set complete with toast rack, salt and pepper shakers, it's the perfect way to enjoy that height of luxuries: a boiled egg and soldiers. For more information on the great range available visit www.omlet.co.uk

Bedding is a big must when it comes to looking after your pets and with the smaller furries in mind, Pillow Wad have put together a range of bedding to suit all your needs using locally sourced and produced materials. Pillow Wad is a family run, independent company that was founded in 1988 and their products are 100% natural, grown from within 10 miles of their farm in the heart of the country.

Eco-Nest This super absorbent bedding is like no other, its unique design locks together to create a soft, aerated comfortable bedding whilst being virtually dust free for the ultimate in reparatory health. Perfect for all types of animals from poultry, reptiles and all types of herbivores, and as it is made from recycled, unused virgin cardboard, its not only good for animals but the environment too.
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Wood Shavings Sourced from well managed forests, using only premier quality wood shavings that are kiln dried to kill bacteria and reduce moisture content. The natural properties of soft wood enable it to mask odours and with the added advantage of dust extraction, it aids respiratory health - making it the ultimate soft, comfy bedding.

Barley Straw By selecting only the finest quality golden barley straw and using years of experience and connections with local farmers, Pillow Wad are able to harvest this premier produce - barley straw, naturally the softest of all the straw types with the lowest dust content, it is a natural product that has been used for centuries.

Meadow hay This natural hay product is made using traditional methods from established meadows, resulting in a blend of grasses and herbs that is packed full of nutrition. Dust extracted and sieved to remove dust spores, year on year Pillow Wad are producing even more home-grown hay from their own farm. Each pack tells you which farm/field your pack came from. Unchopped to help the hay retain its natural goodness and increase the benefits for dental wear and digestive health, this soft green bale is ideal for feeding.

We bought home a pack of Pillow Wad Meadow Hay for our guinea pigs and hamsters to review and were surprised when we compared it to our 'regular' quality hay. Not only was it richer in green colour, it was exceptionally soft to touch, smelled like fresh cut grass and was dust-free.

Our guinea pigs were delighted to get to munch on the hay as part of their balanced diet, and our little Roborovski hamster finally had a small pile of hay that was soft enough to chew through without scratching her eyes. For more information visit www.pillow-wad.co.uk