Eating what they gnaw on?

[michaelsmum]

I've just replaced my piggies plastic pigloo with a wooden one because they were gnawing on the plastic one. Well, they love gnawing on their new wooden one, but it looks to me like they're eating what they chew. I also had a large cardboard tube in their cage and they were peeling the paper from the inside and eating that, too. Is this normal?

[clarestrat]

Hi

I was going to ask a similar question, mine have a pigloo in their hutch and each week when I've been cleaning them out I've noticed that the entrance to the pigloo is getting bigger and bigger! so I'm worried about how much plastic they are eating.

[Hugs-Cavies (Doris)]

This is quite normal. Ours quite happily eat newspaper, even though they have huge quantities of hay. Then of course there is the showers who get hay in toilet rolls - they eat the toilet roll as well.

Plastic is not the best thing for them to chew, so as you've got chewers, it is a good idea to replace the plastic house with a wooden one as you have done.

[eppingstrider]

Fred chews his chube and is the main chewer of their grassy hutches. I've got a picture of when they also had a grassy tunnel. After he destroyed the second one I got him a second chube instead (but they also don't make big enough grassy tunnels).



Fred showing a nice pair of teeth (if you look closely).

I also noticed that one week he might have slightly slanting teeth, but the next he's evened them up again, so I think it really does help keep his teeth nice.

[michaelsmum]

That's good to know they're doing normal piggy things! I put a kitchen towel roll in their cage a few days ago and it is now the size of a loo roll! I'm sure it will have disappeared in another week.