Eating Newspaper...

[Beautifulboars]

Rufus has been doing this for a while but was just wondering if anyone elses wee ones do it too?

He can have a dish full of Wagg yummies and fresh veggies, yet he nudges his bowl to the corner of his house and then rips up his newspapers and tries to eat it :^-

Is this boredom or a funny quirk? :{

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[flintstones]

Well he's not meant to eat it - so that's obviously why he is . It won't do him any harm I'm sure if mine had Newspaper in there cage they would eat it to, they eat everything else that they aren't meant to eat rolleyes.

I think it's a national piggy Quirk!

 

[lauraboara]

Cheeky, one our teenage boys pigs loves to rip up newspaper - he makes quite interesting patterns. But can't say he would leave veggies to rip up newspaper I give him clean paper bags scrunched up to rip and throw aroundrolleyes

 

[Farquhar]

All my piggies eat the newspaper and kitchen roll. They actually dig the megazorb out of the corners so they can get a good grip at the paper. At first I thought they were just playing and enoying shredding the paper, but I once saw Mimsi eat a length of newspaper as though it was a piece of straw. There must be some instinctive behaviour that makes them do this, but as far as i know it doesnt do any harm as newpapers are printed with non toxic ink....

 

[CandyFloss]

lol...mine nibble theirs too .... doesnt seem to have done them any harm though
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