Toxic Foods: What to avoid!

Rabbits have a sensitive digestive system that requires a high fibre, low sugar and low fat diet. There are a number of human foods that you should avoid feeding your rabbit, including:

• Bread
• Rice
• Potatoes
• Biscuits
• Chocolate
• Lollies
• Chips
• Avocado.

There are also a number of plants that are poisonous to your rabbit. While many wild rabbits instinctively avoid these plants, in your backyard, confined to a small area, your pet rabbit may decide to have a try anyway. Below is a selective list of poisonous plants to avoid. More comprehensive lists can be found by searching the internet:

• All plants that grow from bulbs
• Apple (seeds)
• Apricot (all parts except fruit)
• Onion
• Tomato (leaves, vines) Tulip (bulb)
• Macadamia Nut
• Tomato Plant
• Rhubarb Leaves
• Wild Carrots
• Almond
• Arum lily (cuckoo point)
• Bindweed
• Bracken
• Convolvulus (bindweed)
• Deadly nightshade (belladonna)
• Delphinium (larkspur)
• Fools parsley
• Foxglove
• Most evergreens
• Poppies
• Potato tops
• Ragwort
• Rhubarb leaves
• Woody nightshade
• Wild Carrots
• Wild Cucumbers
• Wild Parsnip
• Wild peas