Rabbit Food Question: How Do I Stop My Rabbits From Eating Cardboard?

While the majority of your rabbit’s diet should be grass hay (such as Timothy Hay, Orchard Grass, or Mountain Grass), you know that they'll be eating other foods, and things that you don’t exactly want them to eat.Rabbits are curious little creatures but they also start chewing on everything if they’re not receiving all of the proper rabbit foods in their diet. So how do you get your rabbit to stop chewing and eating cardboard?

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Let's take a second to first find out why they are chewing on the cardboard in the first place.

Why Your Rabbit Eats Cardboard

Your rabbit likes to eat cardboard because it solves a couple things for them.

1. Fills their instinct to be constantly chewing

2. Combats a sense of boredom

As you'll read below, eating cardboard isn't necessarily bad for them, but you'll want to do your best to limit the amount they eat by making sure they have a diet that consists of at least 80% grass hay.

Grass hay such as Timothy Hay, Orchard Grass, and Mountain Grass are important staples to your rabbit's diet because they hold key ingredients that will keep your rabbit happy and healthy.

• Grass hay holds the high amount of fiber that they require.

• Most grass hay have the required coarseness to help wear down their constantly growing teeth.

• Grass hay helps keep their entire body healthy: muscles, hair, digestive system, internal organs, etc.

The constant foraging and grazing encouraged by hay helps to keep them physically active and mentally stimulated. It also helps to wear down their teeth while the long strand fiber helps to keep their digestion regular and functioning properly.

If given proper access to hay, rabbits will typically eat at least their own body size in hay a day. This is why it's important they they have constant access to fresh Timothy Hay, Orchard Grass, or Mountain Grass that isn't just in their hutch/cage. You should also place some hay in their litter box as rabbits like to eat while going to the bathroom.

If you see that your rabbit is eating their bedding and not the hay, check to make sure that the hay is fresh and not molding. It's good to note that your rabbit will most likely nibble on their bedding even with fresh hay available in their litter box. It's just good to make sure that the bedding isn't the only thing they're eating when using the litter box.

Yet, what happens when you've given them hay and you still see them gnawing away on other things, such as carpet or cardboard? Do you need to freak out? Give this helpful article a read below so you know what to expect when you see your rabbit do this!

Can I Give My Rabbit Cardboard?

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