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Small mammal food safety
Can Small Mammals Eat Green Potato?
Unsafe
No. Green potato is unsafe for small mammals. If green skin, green flesh, sprouts, peel, or old potato scraps were eaten or chewed, remove access and call an exotic-pet veterinarian or poison hotline.
Green potatoCall before guessing
If any small mammal ate or chewed green potato, green skin, sprouts, peel, or old potato scraps, call an exotic-pet veterinarian or poison hotline with the species, weight, plant part, amount, time, and symptoms.
Guinea pigs
Call if exposed
Do not feed green potato to guinea pigs. If green potato, green skin, sprouts, peel, or old potato scraps were eaten or chewed, remove access and call with the species, weight, plant part, amount, time, and symptoms.
Syrian and dwarf hamsters
Call if exposed
Do not feed green potato to Syrian and dwarf hamsters. If green potato, green skin, sprouts, peel, or old potato scraps were eaten or chewed, remove access and call with the species, weight, plant part, amount, time, and symptoms.
Rats
Call if exposed
Do not feed green potato to rats. If green potato, green skin, sprouts, peel, or old potato scraps were eaten or chewed, remove access and call with the species, weight, plant part, amount, time, and symptoms.
Mice
Call if exposed
Do not feed green potato to mice. If green potato, green skin, sprouts, peel, or old potato scraps were eaten or chewed, remove access and call with the species, weight, plant part, amount, time, and symptoms.
Gerbils
Call if exposed
Do not feed green potato to gerbils. If green potato, green skin, sprouts, peel, or old potato scraps were eaten or chewed, remove access and call with the species, weight, plant part, amount, time, and symptoms.
Chinchillas
Call if exposed
Do not feed green potato to chinchillas. If green potato, green skin, sprouts, peel, or old potato scraps were eaten or chewed, remove access and call with the species, weight, plant part, amount, time, and symptoms.
Ferrets
Call if exposed
Do not feed green potato to ferrets. If green potato, green skin, sprouts, peel, or old potato scraps were eaten or chewed, remove access and call with the species, weight, plant part, amount, time, and symptoms.
Green means do not salvage
For small mammals, green potato is not a portion problem. Remove the potato and call with the part and amount involved.
Old potato details matter
Green skin, sprouts, leaves, peel, and whether the potato was raw or cooked are all useful details for the call.
If exposure happened
- Remove green potatoes, green peel, raw potato pieces, sprouts, old potato scraps, and any contaminated food or bedding.
- Keep the animal contained and calm while you call an exotic-pet veterinarian or poison hotline.
- Write down whether the exposure involved green skin, green flesh, sprouts, leaves, raw potato, cooked potato, or peel.
Avoid
- Green potato, green peel, green flesh, sprouted potato, potato eyes, potato leaves, stems, old potatoes, compost scraps, and kitchen scrap piles.
- Peeling away the green area and offering any part as a treat.
- Treating a green potato like a normal vegetable scrap.
Helpful food-safety supplies
Optional tools for measuring, storing, serving, and cleaning up small portions safely.
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