eating vet bedding!!

Hi

My bunny has eaten some of his vet bedding....which he has never did before!
Is it safe enough and will it pass through him...or will i contact the vet?

Thanks
leesa.

Thats strange you say that! When I first started working at the vets that I am still at now about 6 years ago,they told me never to put vet bed in with the rabbits as they will eat it and get blockages. Since I have been on this site though lots of people seem to use vet bed and I have also seen it sold for buns? I would give the vets a call just to be on the safe side, they may say its nothing to worry about but at least it will put your mind at rest!

:shock: My Buddy was on Vet Bed.... He never used to eat it though. Mond you he wouldnt eat anything apart from his pellets and yoggies and dwarf corn :roll:

Im not using it at the moment for Harvey due to the hot weather....

hi

when it got warmer my 2 started to chew their blanket and vetbed, which hadn't been touched for months - so I removed the blanket but left the vetbed as they then (I say 'they' but I bet it's Benny not Pepsi - he's a chewer!) decided to eat the roofing felt off their hidey box - so I covered the huge holes with a piece of vetbed again...They had one of those pellet balls and just chewed a hole in it - but Benny actually EATS what he chews - there's no bits left - he ate a large piece of a plastic bag last week too - and my rubber doormat has to be moved every time they're out for a run - he eats my boots too while I'm wearing them!...Pepsi sometimes copies him after watching for a minute, but I don't know why Benny chews so much...So far no blockage - fingers crossed that he chews everything up small enough to pass through for the future - although I guess stuff may accumulate over time in their gut? Not much you can do except remove stuff before they eat it - but it's not fair for Pepsi to have a bare cell to live in, just because his bro eats everything in sight...