[Gpdd] Care: Using plastic trash bags as liners (piggies like to try to eat it!)

[Algernon07 at aol.com]

Hi --
       I cut open and used large plastic trash bags under The Three Jolly 
Rodents cages at first but then learned that little bites of this thin plastic 
from such bags can lodge in their tiny intestines and that any the problem 
caused by this might not show up for quite a while. Apparently such plastic may 
stick and stay put then only eventually contribute to some kind of blockage. (Not 
to fear -- it is NOT an inevitable thing.)
       I know that my guys have all had at least a couple of small bites of 
this filmy plastic. It's been probably 16 months since I used it so I hope that 
no problems ever come of it, but I advise everyone to keep plastic bags away 
from their piggies. Even the packages that some foods and hays come in can 
cause trouble. Add to that the filmy little bags that stores use. Keep them out 
of reach of pigs and their homes, condos, cages, etc., and be sure that other 
people do as well. It's so easy to set a package down beside a cage.

Alge  (and the "Three Jolly Rodents")