by entrancedbymyGCC » Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:20 pm
I let Scooter play with bottle caps all the time, but I think if he were actually chewing them up, I'd be more cautious. I think any plastic can harbor residual plasticizer and while I trust to some extent that beads sold for bird toys are OK, I'd not be entirely sanguine about soda bottles. The surface is probably OK, but when the surface is scratched, I'm not so sure. I'm actually not crazy about the softer plastic toys (as opposed to chew proof acrylic), but Scotty loves to worry at them. They get discarded when bits start to come off, though. But this is really more paranoia than fact-based, I haven't tried to research how safe plastics are.
Actually I think I just wrote a totally useless response.
Scooter
Death Valley Scotty