eating not shredding

[nugget]

Oliver tends to eat the bits of paper he manages to get his teeth on.  I work in a print shop and usually keep a roll of paper around for my daughter. The paper is white…no ink…no carbon coating…no gloss. Do I need to keep this away from him if he is eating it? I don’t know if it will cause problems with his digestive system or not….it hasn’t so far. But, I usually pull the paper away after a couple minutes just to be on the safe side.

[Elrohwen]

Eating small amounts of paper or cardboard is perfectly fine. You just want to make sure he doesn’t ingest to much that it fills him up and keeps him from eating hay or other healthy foods. A bit here and there won’t hurt him though.

[GrumpyBun]

Elrohwen right – a little plain paper iis fine. I had to stop lining my bun’s habitat with newspaper as they were eating *masses* of it, but a bit here and there won’t be a problem.

[nugget]

Every now and then we catch him nibbling on my daughters homework, and of course we take it away. But when he finds the roll of paper….he will sit there and gnaw at the middle of it until he can rip a piece off, then he just goes to town. He will sit there very intently….almost as if he was sitting in front of his hay rack. I think if I let him, he would stay there for an hour.

[MayaConsuelo]

Ha ha that sounds cute! I was wondering also about the plastic coating on the NIC cubes. I know everyone uses them for bunny cages, and every bunny chews off some of the plastic coating and ingests it. How is this not damaging to their system? It’s weird that these animals have delicate digestive systems, but are able to eat wood.

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