Papaya tablets....???

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- 12/05/2007 at 9:51 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Hi everyone…
  
  Where do you buy papaya tablets from??? I’ve never seen them in the stores and they are super expensive for shipping on ebay…Even if it’s an american store, I could try to order from them…Any answer is totally appreciated! I really want some (so do the bunnies )!!
- 12/05/2007 at 10:17 AM
  Sarita
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  Have you tried a local health food store or vitamin store? Are you in Canada?
- 12/05/2007 at 10:25 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  *grumble grumble* yes, I’m in canada…so the papaya tablets you guys feed aren’t especially for rabbits? or…? sigh…
- 12/05/2007 at 10:45 AM
  Sarita
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  The ones I have are from Oxbow.
  
  Here’s a link for Canadian distributors of Oxbow.
  
  http://www.oxbowhay.com/link.sp
- 12/05/2007 at 1:39 PM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Thanks!! (*Kokanee and Kahlua say thanks too!)
- 12/05/2007 at 7:55 PM
  JessL
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  The only papaya tablets I can find here are papaya enzymes.. are they the same?
- 12/09/2007 at 7:25 PM
  Gravehearted
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  well the rabbit specific ones are papaya and pineapple enzymes.
  
  part of the reason we recommend the oxbow ones is the some of the kinds sold for people have added sugar. If you can find them without sugar they’d be find to give your bunny. below are the ingredients to help you figure out what might work from the health food store.
  
  Papaya powder, Pineapple powder, Stearic acid (as a tablet-releasing aid), FD&C Yellow #6 (food coloring), and a Microcyrstalline cellulose binder.
- 12/10/2007 at 10:57 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  I actually found a papaya last night in the store! I’ve been looking forever (near the tropical fruit, had no idea what a papaya looked like)
  
  I took it home and it yielded tonnes of papaya, I looked up how to freeze them and chopped it all up last night and froze most of it. I gave them a bit last night and after turning their noses up at the five dollar fruit, they finally had some!
- 12/10/2007 at 6:17 PM
  Scarlet_Rose
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  Oh yeah, it’s crazy expensive fresh. That’s why I usually opt for dried or tablet form. That’ great they ate it! Be sure to scrape out the back seeds from the center (you probably already know that). It tastes really good with a squeeze of lime!
- 12/10/2007 at 8:56 PM
  wabbitlove
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  This is probably an obvious reply, but I just ordered mine from binkybunny.com!
  
  They came the very next day (ordered on Sat., got here on Mon.) and didn’t even have to pay extra shipping. So, that’s my recommendation
- 12/10/2007 at 10:14 PM
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  Oh hey wabbitlove, so you must have been the one that ordered only papaya or at least that and something else that was small. Can’t remember right off the top of my head. Glad it got there so fast. Yeah! Ya just never know with the Holidays
  
  Just a note for anyone. Wabbitlove’s was a special case. We usually just send USPS parcel post, but if someone orders a small and light product (for example a couple of a papaya bottles, or just one and a toy), then i will check Priority as their rates are usually only a couple of cents more when it is small and light. If it’s not much more, I just send it that way, but I can ONLY do that if it’s small and light. If someone orders a tent, or a mini-bale of hay, then Priority is out of the question because they upped their rates so much (over 100% with Priority) when weight and size gets higher.
  
  We’ll be soon switching to Fedex Ground which is cheaper and faster than regular parcel post.
  
  Anyway, thanks wabbitlove for the kudos, I just wanted to make sure that everyone knows, I can’t gaurantee 2 day shipping on everything.
  
  Helloworld!!
- 12/11/2007 at 1:16 AM
  Floppy
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  How old can a bunny be before they can eat papaya tablets?
  My floppy eats them, but I think I started giving them to him when he was
  about 5 months? He gets 2 a day usually, but Lola my boyfriends bunny is
  about 7-8 weeks. When can she start having papaya tablets?
- 12/11/2007 at 10:37 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  I know…but I can’t order from here b/c they can’t ship to Canada yet…I emailed the oxbow people and they will ship to me!! Specially, just because there are no distributers in Alberta and the website doesn’t ship to canada…But trust me as soon as this site can ship to Canada, I will exclusively order from here!!
  
  Sorry floppy, I dont’ know, but I’m sure someone else will!
- 12/11/2007 at 2:43 PM
  Gravehearted
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  Floppy, I’m not sure. I know the HRS site doesn’t recommend treats prior to 7 months, and since they’re considered a treat it’s likely to wait until then.
  
  Kokaneeandkahlua – I’m happy to hear they’ll ship them to Canada for you 🙂
- 12/11/2007 at 10:22 PM
  wabbitlove
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  yes, that was so great to get them so fast! it’s cool that you guys would do that for the really small, light packages.. we were counting out the papaya tablets we already had until the new ones came, but they came so fast that now our bunnies didn’t have to miss out at all.. haha.. they’re so spoiled
- 12/14/2007 at 1:07 PM
  Floppy
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  7 months, ok got it. I was looking on HRS but I guess I missed that! Thanks Gravehearted!
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