Washing your pet’s bedding in the fabric softener can irritate them, so avoid using it or any other products in the rinse cycle. If your washing machine isn’t large enough to accommodate their bedding, then bathing is the next best option. Just make sure you clean and disinfect it afterward.

Fact

Messages from the human brain travel along nerves at a speed of 200 mph. Signals to the human brain can travel as slow as 1 mph or as fast as 268 mph. An axon delivers messages via chemical and electrical impulses from the body. The fastest nerve impulses ever recorded can travel at 288 mph.