Zolux Gnawing Wood Slices for Rodents, Hazel and Willow

Zolux Gnawing Wood Slices for Rodents is a blister pack of round discs sawn straight across hazel and willow branches, so each one has bark round the rim and open end grain on both faces.

Key Benefits

• Cut across the branch rather than along it, which leaves soft end grain on both flat faces
• End grain is the easy way in, so a disc is often what a timid animal will try before it will touch a whole log
• Hazel and willow, both named on the card, bark left round the edge
• Nothing added: no dye, no flavouring, no glue, no varnish
• Badged by Zolux for tooth care - the card reads regulation dentition

Good To Know

• A rabbit's and a rodent's incisors never stop growing. Something hard to work on is not enrichment, it is maintenance, and an animal with nothing to gnaw ends up at the vet having its teeth burred.
• Hazel and willow are both on the safe list for rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, degus, hamsters and rats. Plenty of garden woods are not, so this is not a thing to substitute with a branch off whatever tree you have.
• Discs are small and flat, which makes them good scatter-feeding: push a few into the hay and the animal has to find them before it can chew them.
• Keep it dry. Wood that sits in the wet corner of a cage goes mouldy, and mouldy wood is not a treat - throw out anything that smells or shows a bloom.
• Diameters differ because branches differ. The small ones go fast and the thick ones last, and both are the same wood.