Squirrel Ate Pencil Eraser. Help!

[Maddie]

Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is life threatening or not. My 15 week old female, Ziggy, ate 1/2 of a pencil eraser. I'm not sure if I need to take her to the vet or if it'll pass or if she's sick. I'm just incredibly worried. She's about 250 - 275 g last time I weighed her (a week ago). Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[SammysMom]

I don't think there is much you can do and as long as she didn't swallow it whole, I think she is fine. Get her to drink fluids and help to flush it.:grouphug

[Maddie]

Here's a picture of how much she ate. She's running around like normal, although she's in time-out in her sleep cage.

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[Maddie]

I don't think there is much you can do and as long as she didn't swallow it whole, I think she is fine. Get her to drink fluids and help to flush it.:grouphug

Okay, thank you so much! She's drinking water mixed with a little pedialyte now. She normally doesn't do this, eating inedible things. She doesn't even like people food! Maybe it's 'the teenage years.'

[SammysMom]

Kids eat them so I think she will be fine.
Choking would have been my worry and that ship has sailed.

[stepnstone]

Pencil erasers are made out of several different products such as synthetic rubber,
vinyl and other gum type products. Pencil erasers are also made out of a synthetic
soy based gum which very well could explain the sudden taste for pencil tops.

Outside of choking which obviously is not a concern at this point, the plus side may
be they poop and erase the evidence. (JK) :gigg

[CritterMom]

Yeah, they won't eat their blocks but an eraser?? Yum!! Don't worry...my squirrel has eaten the buttons off of more TV remotes than I care to think about. When they get to the point where I am randomly pushing things just to see what happens to the TV because all of the writing is long gone I go get a "fresh" one for him to eat...

[island rehabber]

:jump sorry, it's just so cute....and so 'squirrelly'. :grin3