Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Can someone with knowledge/experience in rabbit health help me answer this question?

I have 2 indoor rabbits I keep in my room. They like to have a towel in the cage, but I recently noticed that one or both of them have been eating small circle shaped bites out of it. It's a relatively thin towel, but I'm worried it could cause a blockage or something. Is it dangerous for them to chew it like that?





Thanks.Can someone with knowledge/experience in rabbit health help me answer this question?
Rabbits who eat them should not have fabric items in their cage, just to be on the safe side, though a small amount of undyed unbleached natural cotton likely would not cause problems. To substitute, try something like seagrass mats that are totally safe to ingest: http://www.catsandrabbitsandmore.com/inc鈥?/a>Can someone with knowledge/experience in rabbit health help me answer this question?
Rabbits need to chew. They rarely will actually eat the fabrics but they love to chew and pull out the strings. So if you supplied things it could safely chew, you wouldn't have to worry as much. If you get the rabbit spayed or neutered it will also chew less and less as it gets older.





Good safe things to chew are undyed cotton towel, 100% cotton batting (like from a fabric store, white T-shirts, apple wood, pine branches with no needles, or give your rabbit a basket full of hay to nibble and chew all day.
Your best to give them other items to chew such as a old telephone book, a used toilet roll stuffed with timothy hay, go to a pet store that sells grass mats or they also sell branches from trees which are rabbit chewing friendly, even a small box which you have cut some holes in will be chewed
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