Can chewing cardboard be bad?

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- 09/24/2020 at 1:49 PM
  Crystal
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  I have a rabbit who is having another round of stasis. I am starting to think it may be related to the cardboard hidey boxes/maze. It seemed like when I removed them, she stopped having issues and now that I have put them back she has started having problems again. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this? I hate to remove them, because she really likes her maze and boxes, but I also am tired of worrying about her every time she goes through this. Not to mention the vet costs. 🙁
- 09/24/2020 at 3:32 PM
  Bu20055
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  The fact that she’s chewing cardboard isn’t a problem, but problems arise when they eat too much cardboard (which is what I’m guessing is happening). With a belly full of cardboard, they don’t have room for all the hay they need to keep their systems moving steadily. The rescue warned me of this with my girl, but we’ve been pretty good so far. She only has a couple small cardboard toys in her pen and has bigger cardboard houses in her free roam space (where she roams in the day time). Does she have access to the cardboard toys 24/7? Perhaps restricting her access could fix the problem because she’ll be eating less overall.
- 09/24/2020 at 3:37 PM
  Bu20055
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  I also took a away one of her houses that she was eating a lot more than the others because I was worried about how much she was eating. After I took it away her poops got much nicer and she started eating more hay. Is there any of the toys she eats less than the others that you could keep using for her?
- 09/24/2020 at 6:27 PM
  Crystal
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  Thank you for the info. That makes sense. So I will need to limit her access. She has a cardboard hidey box and a maze. I need to come up with some other type of house for her maybe from wood or plastic. It is just the boxes are so cheap and of course she likes to do her bunstruction. She has toilet paper hay rolls she likes also but I don’t think those are the problem.. They have cardboard tunnels as well that she doesn’t chew on as much. I can get those back out too. Hopefully I can prevent this from happening again or at least quite so frequently. This is the second time this month. My other bun doesn’t really chew on things like this one does.
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