Chewing Cardboard?

[Chief Guinea Pig]

Seeing the other previous cardboard thread made me wonder whether when guinea pigs chew cardboard, do they actually swallow it, if so would it be harmful to them?

Because my girls chew the cardboard down like anything, and I find a few bits of cardboard shreds on the floor!

 

[Poppy'sMum]

I think mostly mine spit it out & drop the bits when they realise it isn't that tasty

 

[Chief Guinea Pig]

I think mostly mine spit it out & drop the bits when they realise it isn't that tasty

I thought as much.

 

[Briony_S]

I think mine swallow but not 100% sure. I've never had any issues they eat the paper off cardboard chews and eat chunks of kitchen roll tubes too on occasion

 

[Lilly]

I always thought mine swallow and they can get through a loo roll each in about 5 days. I always make sure that the loo rolls I give them are unbleached cardboard, have no ink & no glue.

 

[momof4boys]

Some of my pigs go thru a loo roll in 20minutes!

 

[PiggieLove]

I'm pretty sure mine swallow the cardboard as well. They're not the brightest crayons in the box

Isn't carboard just made of trees, like paper? So they're just ingesting wood fibre. I can't see much harm in that. Unless they use chemicals to treat the wood in some way?

 

[Stewybus]

I think mine probably eat it, especially the cardboard tubes you get in Wilkinson's & Asda. I don't give them glossy cardboard though or cardboard with lots of glue.