--- title: "Can Rabbits Eat Celery? What the Vet Charities Say" url: https://pawmultiverse.com/can-rabbits-eat-celery/ description: "Rabbits can eat celery. No toxicology is published for it. The stringiness worry is common, and here is what could and could not be sourced." source: Paw Multiverse (https://pawmultiverse.com), free to cite with a link --- # Can Rabbits Eat Celery? What the Vet Charities Say Published by Paw Multiverse (A.I.T. Multiverse Consulting Ltd) · Last updated 5 August 2026 Quick answer Not on the toxic lists. There is no entry for this food in the Merck food hazards chapter and none in the ASPCA list of people foods to avoid. Neither charity names celery. Taken from this page and its sources. Not veterinary advice. If your pet has already eaten some and seems unwell, [see who to call](https://pawmultiverse.com/pet-emergency/). **This page is not veterinary advice.** Paw Multiverse is not a veterinary practice. We cannot examine, diagnose or treat your animal. There are no doses here, no portion sizes, no feeding amounts and no treatment steps, on purpose. If your pet has eaten something you are worried about, or has changed in a way you cannot explain, ring your vet or your nearest emergency clinic and let them decide. [Full disclaimer](https://pawmultiverse.com/disclaimer/). Yes. Celery is not on any toxicity list we could reach, and it is a stalk vegetable with a high water content and long fibres. The recurring worry is the strings, and it is the one part of this question with a genuine published parallel, although not in rabbits. ## What is published There is no entry for this food in the Merck food hazards chapter and none in the ASPCA list of people foods to avoid. Sources: [Merck Veterinary Manual, Food Hazards](https://www.merckvetmanual.com/toxicology/food-hazards) (read 5 Aug 2026) and [ASPCA Animal Poison Control, People Foods to Avoid Feeding Your Pets](https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/people-foods-avoid-feeding-your-pets) (read 5 Aug 2026). Neither charity names celery. Sources: [PDSA, The ideal diet for rabbits](https://www.pdsa.org.uk/pet-help-and-advice/looking-after-your-pet/rabbits/your-rabbits-diet) (read 5 Aug 2026) and [RSPCA, Feeding your pet rabbit a healthy diet](https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/rabbits/diet) (read 5 Aug 2026). The thing that decides every rabbit food question is structural rather than chemical. The RSPCA writes that hay or grass “should be the main part of their diet”, and PDSA puts fresh food alongside hay rather than in place of it. A food is a problem for a rabbit mainly in proportion to the hay it displaces. Sources: [RSPCA, Feeding your pet rabbit a healthy diet](https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/rabbits/diet) (read 5 Aug 2026) and [PDSA, The ideal diet for rabbits](https://www.pdsa.org.uk/pet-help-and-advice/looking-after-your-pet/rabbits/your-rabbits-diet) (read 5 Aug 2026). ## Strings, and the one published thing that is adjacent MSD writes about linear foreign bodies in small animals, describing how one end lodges while the other migrates so that “the intestines bunch up and the foreign body saws through the intestinal wall”, and noting that this pattern is most typical of cats playing with string and thread. Source: [MSD Veterinary Manual, Gastrointestinal Obstruction in Small Animals](https://www.msdvetmanual.com/digestive-system/diseases-of-the-stomach-and-intestines-in-small-animals/gastrointestinal-obstruction-in-small-animals) (read 5 Aug 2026). That page is about cats and dogs, not rabbits, and it is about string and dental floss rather than celery fibre. It is included here because it is the nearest published thing to the worry people actually have, and because seeing what it does say makes clear that it is not the same claim. We found nothing documenting celery fibre causing obstruction in a rabbit. A rabbit chews very differently from a cat swallowing thread. ## The honest summary Celery is not documented as harmful to rabbits. It is watery, so like cucumber it fills without feeding. The string fear has no published support that we could find, and the published material on linear foreign bodies is about a different animal doing a different thing. Advertisement ## What we could not source for this page Everything below was attempted on 5 August 2026 and is written here rather than left as a silent gap. - The Rabbit Welfare Association and Fund publishes the most detailed vegetable and herb lists in the UK. Its site refused our fetch on both attempts, so nothing from it is quoted here. - Both PDSA and the RSPCA print a quantity for hay and for fresh greens. We do not reproduce either, because a quantity for a rabbit depends on the rabbit, and a number lifted off a website replaces thinking rather than supporting it. - Neither charity publishes a toxic dose, a threshold or a maximum for this food, so this page carries none. - No publisher we could reach documents celery fibre causing obstruction in rabbits. The MSD linear foreign body material is about cats and dogs. ## Where to go next The parent reference for every food on this site is [Can My Pet Eat It](https://pawmultiverse.com/can-my-pet-eat-it/), which carries every food and species pair in its reference table with the publisher and the date read. The species hub is [can rabbits eat](https://pawmultiverse.com/can-rabbits-eat/). If your rabbit has already eaten something you are worried about, go to [the poison control directory](https://pawmultiverse.com/pet-poison-control-by-country/) and [pet emergency](https://pawmultiverse.com/pet-emergency/). The printable version lives on the [poison control directory](https://pawmultiverse.com/pet-poison-control-by-country/). Sources last checked 5 August 2026. Spotted something out of date? 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