Is Newspaper Safe

[CarnivalPiggy]

I stopped using newspaper a few weeks ago or so since my vet told me the ink (it's coloured) is unsafe or its toxins are bad. I'm mainly inquiring how true this is right now as I've been seeing a lot of members use it and the girls have taken to peeing in corners, so it's be easier to use newspaper for that. It would be on top of the fleece, which has started to have wet/damp corners and worried it will attract unwanted things

 

[Guineapigfeet]

Mine has all chewed/eaten newspaper with seeming no ill effects. My biggest newspaper water live until 8 years and some months old!

 

[Swissgreys]

Are they eating a lot of newspaper?
If they are just nibbling I can't imagine it would be particularly harmful.

 

[Jesse's pigs]

You see I heard that and now only have newspaper under my fleece and occasionally wrap it around Mo's tunnel. My vet said she keeps her two piggies entirely on paper and they are four. I also heard somewhere that most newspapers use ink that isn't bad for a piggies health?

 

[Wiebke]

All professional newspapers in this country are made with safe ink now. Unless your piggies are eating it in large quantities, the odd nibble is not going to hurt them.

 

[rome_italy]

Also pesticides INTO vegs (lettuce literally grows up filled with those chemicals) are toxic for liver and other inner organs... Anyway, yes, ink and newspapers contain lead and other toxins... but how much lead can a pig eat?
I also use newspapers, but covered with the fleece, therefore paper works only as an absorbent layer. I put a twig of a safe tree into the cage and I see the pigs prefer chewing it...

 

[CarnivalPiggy]

From what I remember they don't really eat/chew it, more about (and sorry if this sounds silly) the fumes coming off it. Wouldn't have mentioned it but someone on here mentioned there was a chemical or something that was used. I've being using newspaper for years but curious

All professional newspapers in this country are made with safe ink now. Unless your piggies are eating it in large quantities, the odd nibble is not going to hurt them.

Is the Advertiser or the Sun considered a professional newspaper. Not with its content but just around the ink

 

[Lorcan]

Is the Advertiser or the Sun considered a professional newspaper. Not with its content but just around the ink

I'm sorry, that made me laugh probably more than it should have done.

The answer to your question would almost certainly be yes. As for content, we-ell...

 

[Betsy]

I'm sorry, that made me laugh probably more than it should have done.

The answer to your question would almost certainly be yes. As for content, we-ell...

I'm with you on that one Lorcan! To line a hutch with that particular newspaper is about the only thing it is good for surely? I get my newspapers from my neighbour and he reads the Sun and the Star on a daily basis and if he is feeling particularly up market I may occasionally get a Mirror too!

 

[Betsy]

All joking aside, I use newspaper to line my hutch and have no ill effects. Before Lenny & Gizmo trotted over the Rainbow Bridge about 8 years ago they had their hutch lined with newspaper and they lived around 6 years.

 

[brillmini]

Mine nibbled on newspaper occasionally but they really loved Brown paper bags x

 

[Poppy'sMum]

I used newspaper in the hay trays for years with no ill affects, just check the print doesn't easily come off on your hands, if a lot of it does then change the brand of newspaper (Maybe the Times or Guardian if your piggies like a bit more interesting reading?) x

 

[piggieminder]

I use newspaper under the vet bed as an absorbant layer, I put the photos of celebs and politicans I don't like in the pee corners. Don't forget to remove the staples if using the weekend mags or freebies that have them if there's any chance the piggies could get at the paper.

 

[rome_italy]

I put the photos of celebs and politicans I don't like in the pee corners. .