Twinnings Tea!

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so i like tea, quite a lot infact.
and flavoured tea too
fruit
vanilla
all the fancy names that sound like perfumes.
so i just ran out of twinnings cranberry and blood orange tea bags and as with every cardboard box i have i tend to find a use for it by making it into a pig toy or at least pop it in the cage just for chewing. so I did ...

Now it did occur to me that there may still be essence of tiny escaped tea leaves stuck to the box (being cardboard i didn't wash it) and wondered how my piggies would react. well unlike most of their toys they have had a real good chew on it and thrown it around from the loft to the bottom of the cage so it seems the fruity smell attracted them!

but I just wanted to check this is totally safe before i give them any more tea boxes has anyone else ever done this?
 
Should be fine - twinings tea bags usually come individually wrapped don't they? So I don't expect there's that much in the bottom of the box when its finished? I expect it's the smell that does it for them. I have a box of peppermint tea bags, I might give the box to Jeffrey, he likes to eat mint leaves (the others run away from them!)
 
My boys try to drink my tea occasionally! I should think as long as you dust the boxes out as best you can it should be fine.
 
Amanda1801 said:
Should be fine - twinings tea bags usually come individually wrapped don't they? So I don't expect there's that much in the bottom of the box when its finished? I expect it's the smell that does it for them. I have a box of peppermint tea bags, I might give the box to Jeffrey, he likes to eat mint leaves (the others run away from them!)
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:))
 
Its never even crossed my mind that tea dust might harm piggies! Mine have all kinds of tea boxes - fruit and herbal, PG tips and my absolute favourite, Twinings English breakfast :)
 
MerryPip said:
My boys try to drink my tea occasionally! I should think as long as you dust the boxes out as best you can it should be fine.
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Hahaha how do your boys even attempt that?!
:lol!:
 
Yorkshire tea for this Yorkshire lassy :D quite partial to earl grey too :D My pigs like yorkshire tea boxes too :d
 
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