g. m. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
><< 1) Do not use Cedar Shavings. >>
>Please help me with this?? Do you know why you shouldn't use cedar?? I
>have had gerbils for 24 years and have always used Cedar without any
>trouble that I know of.
>Thanks,
>Tracy
Cedar contains highly irritant aromatic hydrocarbons. That is why it
smells so nice and why insects wisely stay away.
Regular exposure to cedar and other highly aromatic woods is known to
cause respiratory and liver disease in humans who work with the wood,
and to rats and other laboratory rodents who live on cedar based litter.
Cedar has been implicated in nose and eye problems in gerbils and
respiratory illness, leading to death, in new-born pups.
There is a lot of info on the web about cedar. Basically, it is
something worth avoiding.
--
Julian
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