I am neither for nor against the use of woodchippings but I have read an item in "Living with a Houserabbit" by Linda Dykes and Helen Flack about this subject and I happen to agree with them.
Most of you have probably read this book as the 2 women are founder members of the RWA (or The British Houserabbit Association as it used to be known). The RWA does and has done, for many years, stirling work to promote the rights and well being of rabbits (in the UK and further afield) and I'm sure most of you will agree that they only have the best interest of rabbits in mind.
According to this book the fears are based on research done on mice and rats in laboratories (these animals are different to rabbits and in labs they are usually kept in poorly ventilated containers - most of us keep our rabbits in well ventilated cages/hutches and give them daily access to home/garden).
The book also says that paper based litters have a similar potiental to release these chemicals. I haven't heard of Carefresh before (I thought is was a panty liner!!!
:? :lol: ) but is it paper based???
The book is against corn-cob, hemp and clumping cat litters.
It also says that most of the controversy comes from the USA ......... I know that this has nothing to do with rabbits but does anybody remember the US report that European salmon had too high level of certain metals, until it was discovered that this research was funded by an American salmon producing company ........ my o/h is a research chemist and he can bore for Germany (he's German!) on the subject of similar false positives (bascially finding what you're looking for even if it's not there ........a bit like thinking you've found Mr Right when he's really just another toad - come on, we've all done it at some stage!! :lol: :lol: ) .....of course I'm not going to ask him for other examples as once he starts talking about chemistry it's hard to find the off switch :roll: :lol: .
What I'm trying to say is that I'm a bit sceptical .....how often do things change from being safe to dangerous?
Once the buns don't eat woodchipping it may well be safe to use ....... don't know about rodents though.
Most of you have probably read this book as the 2 women are founder members of the RWA (or The British Houserabbit Association as it used to be known). The RWA does and has done, for many years, stirling work to promote the rights and well being of rabbits (in the UK and further afield) and I'm sure most of you will agree that they only have the best interest of rabbits in mind.
According to this book the fears are based on research done on mice and rats in laboratories (these animals are different to rabbits and in labs they are usually kept in poorly ventilated containers - most of us keep our rabbits in well ventilated cages/hutches and give them daily access to home/garden).
The book also says that paper based litters have a similar potiental to release these chemicals. I haven't heard of Carefresh before (I thought is was a panty liner!!!
:? :lol: ) but is it paper based???The book is against corn-cob, hemp and clumping cat litters.
It also says that most of the controversy comes from the USA ......... I know that this has nothing to do with rabbits but does anybody remember the US report that European salmon had too high level of certain metals, until it was discovered that this research was funded by an American salmon producing company ........ my o/h is a research chemist and he can bore for Germany (he's German!) on the subject of similar false positives (bascially finding what you're looking for even if it's not there ........a bit like thinking you've found Mr Right when he's really just another toad - come on, we've all done it at some stage!! :lol: :lol: ) .....of course I'm not going to ask him for other examples as once he starts talking about chemistry it's hard to find the off switch :roll: :lol: .
What I'm trying to say is that I'm a bit sceptical .....how often do things change from being safe to dangerous?
Once the buns don't eat woodchipping it may well be safe to use ....... don't know about rodents though.
