Cardboard and Towels: Hazards?

Piglet bites his towel sometimes, but I don't see any harm as long as they don't get ahold of a loose string or something. Same with the oatmeal container, I think it is fine. I give my pigs chubes sometimes and have recently started using oatmeal containers (as I only recently started eating it on a regular basis) the one thing I do with it though is peel the outside part off... I know the Quaker Oats containers have shiny stuff on the outside and I'm not sure about it. But the inside I think is fine. My pigs like to chew on toilet paper tubes and eat a little bit of it, so I think that is about the same thing.

My pig is sort of over weight so I also slit the tube in case she were to get stuck

I bought one of those "chube's" as I've heard them called. ALthough they are called something different by the Animal Planet brand, I think. The one I got came with some soft fluff, that I suppose they can use for bedding, and two small wood chunks that are for chewing on. Are these things safe?

Leaflyn said:

The one I got came with some soft fluff, that I suppose they can use for bedding, and two small wood chunks that are for chewing on. Are these things safe?

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I bought the cube too but I absolutely would not let them anywhere near that fluff stuff. It feels like it's made from fiberglass and I know my guinea pigs wouldn't play/sleep in/on it they'd just eat it. The last thing I need is a guinea dying from eating "bedding".

I get my boys Chubes on a regular basis and, personally, I am not comfortable with the nesting material that comes with them. I think it is a polyester fiber and I don't want to risk it.

The C&C website also recommends towels to hang on corners as hidey-houses. I'm sure the towels should be fine, and also of course the cardboard.

I also always throw away the "bedding/fluff" from the chubes.