Eating Puppy Pads

[Hannah P.]

My female pig Ginger eats the blue plastic on puppy pads that I use when I let her run around on the floor. She's done this for some time and it never seems to phase her, she always eats, drinks, and poops fine afterwards, but I feel like she'll get sick or get an intestinal blockage. I give her other things to chew on but she ignores them. Any advice?

 

[DM030819]

Cover them up with a towel or fleece.

 

[JenniferG]

I really wouldn't let her eat them. If covering the pads with towels or fleece doesn't work, just use towels. I had a piggy who ate some of the shower curtain that my partner forgot to lift out of the bath when they were in there, he needed surgery and died straight after. I'm glad your piggy has been ok so far but this blue stuff is not food and it could cause problems.

 

[Veggies Galore]

I really wouldn't let her eat them. If covering the pads with towels or fleece doesn't work, just use towels. I had a piggy who ate some of the shower curtain that my partner forgot to lift out of the bath when they were in there, he needed surgery and died straight after. I'm glad your piggy has been ok so far but this blue stuff is not food and it could cause problems.

OMG ! I'm so sorry you lost a GP in these cirumstances.

I must admit, I use puppy pads under fleece and , occasionally, one of my GPs finds an exposed bit and has a nibble. Fortunately, none of them has had any ill effects.

I agree it is advisable to do everything possible to avoid GPs eating them.

 

[JenniferG]

Thanks, my grey fluffy girl, Clove, likes plastic bags and crisp packets if she gets the chance...her favourite though is electric cables! I've stopped them going into that half of the living room now because she would get through my barricades to chew on those cables!

 

[Wiebke]

My female pig Ginger eats the blue plastic on puppy pads that I use when I let her run around on the floor. She's done this for some time and it never seems to phase her, she always eats, drinks, and poops fine afterwards, but I feel like she'll get sick or get an intestinal blockage. I give her other things to chew on but she ignores them. Any advice?

Some piggies are plastic addicts; Please cover the puppy pads with fleece that you weigh down around the edge to prevent her from getting at the pads or use a different underlay like cotton towels on a cheap shower plastic shower curtain.

 

[Hannah P.]

I'll try covering them with fleece, thanks for the input.

 

[Dorothy&Coco]

I think there is something in puppy pads (to attract puppies) that the piggies might like. I use the disposable baby changing mats or children's bedmats and the piggies are definitely less interested in those.

 

[Hannah P.]

That's very interesting, and I'll keep that in mind.

 

[JenniferG]

I use disposable incontinence pads as they're thicker than puppy pads and my plastic obsessed piggy doesn't try to eat the blue sides. Please don't use a shower curtain...as I posted above, I lost a piggy when he ate some of one.