Raspberry leaves mix with thorns

[Hath]

Hi all.
I bought some dry herb/grass type mix for my piggies as treat I give them every now and then to spice things up! Never had this mix before and it has 3 different flavours.
One is dry raspberry leaves. I read in description they can contain small thorns that would be naturally found in wild. It was sold as suitable for piggies.
But then I opened the bag and found twigs with thorns on them! I expected the soft thorns you get on a leaf/stalk. I scooped some out of the bag and it pricked me in my finger. So looked and found several.
Not feeding this to my piggies. Am I being unreasonable? They are massive!

 

[alpacasqueak]

No definitely not unreasonable, I wouldn’t either! Accident and injury waiting to happen!

 

[Tribble Troubler]

I wouldn’t feed it. Raspberry thorns are pretty painful and you definitely don’t want them to get eye pokes from those!

 

[Rivervixen]

I wouldn’t feed it either, you’re not being unreasonable

 

[Siikibam]

I would write to them and tell them it’s not suitable for piggies. I wouldn’t feed it to any animal with those thorns to be honest!

 

[Hath]

Thanks everyone, thought it cannot be normal! If it hurts me, it'll definitely hurt my piggies mouth.
I've written review for zooplus, but noticed they didn't publish it! Will write email, just didn't want to as already had issue pending as they sent me wrong Guinea pig food lol. Didn't want to be difficult, but guess I have no choice!

 

[Sparklepetal]

Those are nasty looking thorns! I don't think they're from raspberry though, at least the ones I grow don't look like that. These look more like rose thorns. What else is in the forage mix?

 

[Betsy]

 

[Piggies&buns]

Ouch!
I agree though - they don’t look like the thorns that are on the raspberries I grow

 

[Hath]

I have raspberry Bush, too. That's why I expected the soft spikes you get on a stalk (leaf).
It's meant to be pure raspberry. I even found a loose thorn that was almost size of my pinky nail!
It's scary as piggies are shredders that will eat anything that doesn't run away!

 

[Eriathwen]

Good grief! I usually leave the thorns on the fresh brambles, hawthorn and milk thistles my lot eat but those are huge, even I wouldn't feed those! And when dried they could splinter, making them even more dangerous.

 

[hrsrdr]

Definitely don't feed it to them. Guinea pigs have such sensitive mouths and lips, they would get hurt from that immediately.