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Although fruits and vegetables are essential for guinea pigs, the truth is that there are also foods that are totally prohibited for them.
We're talking about foods that can result in a problem in the normal functioning of a guinea pig's digestive system, so it's important to do a little review of this list and make sure you're not offering it.
Continue reading this PeritoAnimal article to know the prohibited foods for the guinea pig in a complete list.
Unrecommended foods
Before starting with foods that are totally prohibited for guinea pigs, we should pay attention to some that should happen very infrequently:
- Grape
- Oat
- Barley
- seeds
- Bread
- Parsley
- Sunflower seeds
These are not foods that are harmful to your guinea pig's health in small doses, but a high consumption of them could cause problems for your body.
prohibited food
Now pay attention to this list of prohibited foods to know what should never offer to your guinea pig:
- Beef
- animal derivatives
- Candy
- mushrooms
- Coffee
- salt
- Potatoes
- Avocado
- Sugar
- Onion
- Canned food
- Mint
- Ivy
- lily
- Sweet potato
- Rhododendron
Why shouldn't you give these foods to your guinea pig?
Animal products such as meat, eggs or milk are not recommended since the guinea pig is a herbivorous animal, that is, it feeds only on products of vegetable origin. Under all circumstances we must give him this type of food.
Certain species or plants, even being of vegetable origin, are also not suitable because in large quantities they can be toxic. This is the case of ivy, for example, which is also poisonous to dogs and cats.
Finally, products that contain sugar are totally inadvisable as they are not foods that a guinea pig should consume. Among its consequences are blindness, intestinal problems, etc.
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