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Eating cardboard

PiggieNPooh

PiggieNPooh

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lol literally exactly what the same says ! both my piggies have been eating (i can see them eating it, not just peeling it) cardboard from a cardboard tube from pets at home . is this normal or dangerous ?
 
Perfectly normal. Mine do that, too. At the moment Holly and Ralph are destroying a carrot cottage and eating the cardboard it is made of.
 
VickiA said:
Perfectly normal. Mine do that, too. At the moment Holly and Ralph are destroying a carrot cottage and eating the cardboard it is made of.
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My two are doing the same. Its actually fibre which is food for them isnt it?
 
Better to eat cardboard than plastic! Our little Tallulah started nibbling the plastic correx base of her new cage so we've put cardboard and apple tree sticks and hay cubes and chew toys everywhere she likes to nibble, her husboar is a bit perplexed by the new decor but I think cardboard is a safe piggy food stuff as long as they get some hay and veggies with it!
 
It is absolutely fine and alot of Guinea pig toys are made of it. You can also give them a cardboard box or cardboard house if you want to. I made my piggies a hay tube by cutting two holes in the middle of a kitchen roll tube and stuffed it with hay and they played with it for ages!
 
Guinea pigs' digestive systems allow them to chew wood and wood-based products such as paper and cardboard without any ill effects.

Sais google.

It is fibre and guinea pigs are fibrevores
 
Ours love those cardboard chubes they always get nommed very quickly.
 
PigglePuggle said:
Better to eat cardboard than plastic! Our little Tallulah started nibbling the plastic correx base of her new cage so we've put cardboard and apple tree sticks and hay cubes and chew toys everywhere she likes to nibble, her husboar is a bit perplexed by the new decor but I think cardboard is a safe piggy food stuff as long as they get some hay and veggies with it!
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We bought some of those plastic slide binders and slipped them onto the correx where it was being chewed. The binders are much too hard even for piggy teeth, so no more chewed correx.
 
So glad to hear all these comments as Ronnie has a wine box as a house and is basically eating it! I was getting very worried! Now not so much 😁
 
kscott1982 said:
So glad to hear all these comments as Ronnie has a wine box as a house and is basically eating it! I was getting very worried! Now not so much 😁
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My piggies love a wine box stuffed with hay! They like to saturate it with pee then eat it. Good excuse to buy extra wine, as a 6 pack then you get a free edible cardboard piggy house :)
 
PigglePuggle said:
My piggies love a wine box stuffed with hay! They like to saturate it with pee then eat it. Good excuse to buy extra wine, as a 6 pack then you get a free edible cardboard piggy house :)
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I have been known to say to piggy daddy that he'd best add 6 bottles of prosecco to the Asda list because Jezzy floof needs a new wine box bed. He nods quite seriously and writes it down because piggy needs are very important! So 5 red peppers, 3 cucumbers, coriander, beansprouts, babyleaf salad, organic carrots, romaine lettuce, 6 bottles of prosecco... thats the piggy shop :)
 
You can also use a toilet paper roll to stuff hay inside of them. Throw them in the cage and watch piggies go nuts over it!
 
Glad to read this. I’ve just bought some Eco-nest bedding which is virgin cardboard. There’s not gonna be any left at this rate! :xd:
 
Phew. :hmm:
Was not sure about cardboard.
My little Devils (tis Halloween) are having a crazy time attacking cardboard and guess it's going through their digestive system.
So it's ok is it guys. x :nod:
 
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