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Forum BEHAVIOR Does your bunny chew on her litter?

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    • piperknitsRN
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        I think Olive chews on her Carefresh litter.  I don’t normally use it, I use newspaper pellets (and when they come out in fall, I’ll be changing over to wood stove pellets).  I don’t think she actually swallows it, just nibbles on it and spits it out.  She gets plenty of hay, but even that she’ls only so-so about chewing.  Mostly she just likes to move it around and snip pieces in two and move it around some more, though I have noticed her eating strands of hay from time to time.  I wish she’d eat more.  I’ve tried mixing timothy, orchard grass and alfalfa (she’s still a young bunny) but it all gets about the same reception.  


      • LittlePuffyTail
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          I offered Carefresh to Bindi once and he started eating it so I had to take it out. I use Yesterday’s News.


        • jerseygirl
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            You could try putting a screen or rack over the litter. She might become more interested in her hay then if she can’t access the litter.


          • Monkeybun
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              Monkey will taste it when I give her a clean box, guess to see how soft the litter is. Other than that, she leaves it alone except to smooth it out


            • Stickerbunny
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                Stickers ate a few pieces of carefresh when I first got her, when she thought her litter box was a bed (took 4 days for her to figure out that it was a toilet not a comfy place to sleep) but then she stopped. I did switch her to pelleted litter though after the bag was done.


              • piperknitsRN
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                  I think little Olive *does* chew on it, not sure if she swallows it.  I tend to use pelleted litter instead but wanted something softer when she got spayed.  She seems to have no trouble with the pelleted litter right now, though.  In fact, as we speak, she’s flopped out in her litterbox.  


                • TriBun
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                     I know for sure Rosy ate some of her litter (it was the recycled paper kind) when I first started using it.. I figured it couldn’t be any worse than eating paper. I fed her extra hay and less pellets to “flush” it out. She doesn’t do it anymore. I think Olive will give up on it once she figures it doesn’t taste as good as she thought it would.


                  • victoria nicole
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                      my lionhead fufsy uses carefresh bedding and sometimes i see her chew it, but i don’t think she is eating it because her “waste” haha, looks normal. when i was trying to potty train fufsy, i used carefresh litter (not the fluffy bedding) and i noticed she ate some of it, so i immediately took it out. and not sure if its a coincidence er not, but i did see a change in her bunny waste (it was smaller). so i guess just keep an eye on that, making sure its not too small, or oddly shaped, etc. that could mean intestinal blockage. however, if you’d rather be extra safe, you could give her a piece of natural pineapple or natural juice from the pineapple once or twice a week. this helps break up hair and other things so they dissolve faster making it easier to digest. sorry for the book i wrote you, haha. but i hope this helped!


                    • tobyluv
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                        I stopped using Oxbow Eco Straw litter because one of my rabbits liked to eat it too much. I know that it’s safe if ingested, but I was afraid he was eating too much since it was similar to food pellets, and that he wasn’t eating as much hay.

                        Now I use a combination of Yesterday’s News and Aspen Supreme pellets, and he doesn’t try to eat any of that.


                      • Huckleberry
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                          Yes, but thats because I give her newspaper as litter.

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