Ingesting paper products isn't a good thing. It can be a sign a rabbit needs more fiber because of a slow gut, and the ingestion of the paper can sometimes lead to a blockage.
http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/ileus.html
No, but then again, they have a mind of their own.
I can add this to the list of things my bunnies have eaten along with the paint, carpet, soap, chocolate, etc.
I gave them the cat house, and guess what? Lady already ate half the roof off of it when I dozed off and took a nap!!! I looked at it and I was like What the heck? Was there an earthquake or something? How is the cat house missing half the roof? Then I see Lady with paper sticking out of her mouth that matched a sticker we put on the roof. Question answered...
I think also she was accustomed to eating/chewing on paper and cardboard when she was with her prior owners..because when I took up every piece of paper I was promptly bit over and over again until I gave her a piece of printing paper to shred and nibble on.
I started to give her a lecture on the dangers of paper eating and how it could wreak havoc on her intestinal track and cause me to take her to the emergency vet for surgery... and I stopped in mid lecture as she happily kept chewing on paper..and it reminded me of the speech from the Sarah Bird book, The Boyfriend School or the movie they made from the Book, Don't tell her it's me:
Lizzie Potts: No! Annabelle! Don't play with the space heater coil. Piglet, if you breath gas it will tie up all your available hemoglobin and there will be none left for oxygen transfer. Your lips and nail beds will turn cherry red and you'll die of carbon monoxide poisoning. I like to acquaint her with consequences.
I started to go into details such as the above but on paper eating and damage to her tiny little Holland Lop body and my husband stopped me saying, Your talking to her like she understands what you are saying. I think the limit of her vocabulary is NO, YES, LADY, Good Girl...
anything else and you are on your own..
Sigh.. so until I can get her to stop eating the paper off the magnets on the fridge and all the church notices, I will just have to deal with the fact that Lop loves eating paper the same way models like eating cotton balls soaked in orange juice as a meal...
Vanessa