Bunny Accidentally Ate Sweet Potato/Yam??

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- 07/12/2018 at 11:14 PM
  lopland
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  He was let out of this cage for free time and I noticed he made his way itno the pantry and was nibbling on the end of a purple sweet potato/yam. I have never fed him vegetables as he is only 4 months old, and I feel awful because I read potatoes should NEVER be fed to a rabbit, and also because I didn’t want his first taste of anything other than hay/pellets/fresh grass to be that (I wanted to train him using a bit of carrot or some green instead a little down the track).
  
  Is there anything that I should do now? His pee and poop seem normal at the moment. Unfortunately I had to be a little more assertive than normal and chase after him and pick him up and put him in the cage after. This incident occured about 2 hours ago.
- 07/13/2018 at 2:07 AM
  Bam
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  If it was a sweet potato he’ll be fine. But true yams must be cooked to not be poisonous, much like cassava. Some animals eat cassava raw though and are fine with it. I think true sweet potatoes are called yams in some parts of the USA though. So it was probably sweet potato he ate, and that’s ok, only too sweet to be fed often.
  
  Sorry if I’m being unclear, but I find it so difficult to distinguish between all the various yams and sweet potatoes, esp the purple varieties. Do you know if the sweet potato/jam you have can be consumed raw by humans, for example in the form of shavings in a salad? If they are that type, they’re harmless to your bun.
  
  After 2 hours I think he would have started to show symptoms if he ate sth poisonous. How does he seem? Activity-wise, I mean.
  
  You can use his normal pellets for training if you like, reserve a small portion of the pellets for training instead of serving it all to him. For training you want treats that he can eat quickly, or there will be long pauses while he munches.
- 07/13/2018 at 4:41 AM
  Rain
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  My bun Rain has eaten the end off of a tiny potato once( you know like the ones that are small and round?) and she was perfectly fine. I think as long as you keep her on hay and water and monitor for anything unusual everything will be fine. She was just four months old too. Rabbits will put their little noses in everything!
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