Pigs Are Eating Their Puppy Pads!

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As for bedding for my pigs I use puppy pads.

Recently the pigs have been beginning to eat them and I'm starting too get worried it might hurt their little tummies and cause them problems! Can this happen? Or can their little tummies handle nibbling on them? They have never done this until recently!

These puppy pads are also the best things for me too use, I've tried soo many different kinds of bedding and these work the best, so I'm getting pretty worried at the moment!
 
Have they got enough toys to play with in their cage?

I would be worried too, I do not know if it is dangerous, but it certainly is bad. Could you change over to towels?
 
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Have they got enough toys to play with in their cage?

I would be worried too, I do not know if it is dangerous, but it certainly is bad. Could you change over to towels?
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Yes they do!

I've tried towels, fleece, all sorts of bedding, which is another reason I'm worried, I'm struggling woth bedding, haha!
 
I know this sounds daft but with my old guinea pig snowball (years ago) I used to use baby change mats (there wasn't any such thing as puppy pads, and these were very similar) as the sawdust was irritating his manly bits. And I had the same problem he ate them(greedy piggy) I used to tape them down along the edges with masking tape so he couldn't lift them up to eat them. Lol.
 
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Yes they do!

I've tried towels, fleece, all sorts of bedding, which is another reason I'm worried, I'm struggling woth bedding, haha!
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So are they on puppy pads exposed?
Fleece should work on top of puppy pads.
 
You need to wash wash and wash fleece loads of times before it wicks the pee through. I washed one set of my fleece about 8 times before it wicked. Trick is to splash water on too of the fleece and if it starts to soak through the fleece it's ready. If the water just sits on top of the fleece then you need to keep washing it till it soaks through or it won't work properly.
 
I need something disposable. I can't really get one with anything that needs too be washed. My mum is really fussy about the washing machine!
 
I would be concerned if they can get to the puppy pads, and eat them. Isn't there some type of expandable gel in them.:(
 
What if you covered the puppy pads with newspaper?

Is your mum worried about hay an poop etc getting in the machine or the amount of washing fleece requires? If it's the former then I use an equine blanket wash bag which is fantastic at keeping my washing machine free of piggie mess (i spent loads of money at the beginning of the year on a new washer/dryer an didn't want to take any chances of it getting broken or anything). This is the one I've got:
(It's expensive considering, but cheaper than a new machine!)

If it's the later then unfortunately fleece does add an extra load of washing every week.
 

Hey that's a great idea, I only switched to fleece recently, and have been struggling to get all the muck off before washing. I wonder if you can use an old pillow case in the same way :hmm:
 
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