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Question
Hi.What can you do for a dog or a cat who eats or ate a pencil shaving?How can you help them?Is it poisonous?What about for any rodent including a rabbit?

Just ry to answer what you can!Thanks

Answer
Hi there!  It truly depends on the amount of the pencil shavings the animal ate and the size of the animal.  The lead is poisonous, but in pencil shavings, there is more wood than lead, so it usually does not become harmful, unless alot of it is ingested.
I hope this helps!
Hilary