Guinea Pigs

[midlanderkeith]

hi where aquiring a guinea pig today as the people that have it havent been looking after it properly,poor thing didnt even have water yesterday when my daughter went to the house :rant:   :rant:   :rant: . its disgusting how some people treat animals,wish i could string them all up :rant:   :rant:   :rant:
could someone give me some info on what they eat and best bedding etc as ive never had a guinea before :wacko: ive only ever had rabbits,rats,mice and hamsters,so any advise would be great :thumbsup:

think i will need to buy a bigger cage as my daughter says two steps and its at the other side of the cage so sounds tiny .

will put some pics on as soon as we get it here(dont know if its male or female yet either)

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Love these little chaps i do, i remember as a lad my parents going to the pet shop, bought a guinea pig for my brother, and a tortoise fer me, huge bugger it was, the torty, i had to tether the bugger to the dustbin to contain it, we had metal ones then, my brother used to do early paper rounds, and i remember on his way home we could hear my brother whistling, so i let roger the piggy out the cage, up the yard it would run and down the back street to follow him home, russet in colour, called roger

keith

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what a lovely story and such good memories :thumbsup: my grandma always had tortoises,i remember going to grans and looking in the garden for them as they was always roaming freely in the day.

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Good and bad memories indeed, i used to live near pylon cables, many a time the swans would fly into the cables and down they would come, i used to take em home, look after em then let em go, i can see my mothers face to this day walking down our path with a swan tuckedunder my arm. :lol: cud write a best seller bout my exploits

 

[Trish]

hi where aquiring a guinea pig today as the people that have it havent been looking after it properly,poor thing didnt even have water yesterday when my daughter went to the house :rant:   :rant:   :rant: . its disgusting how some people treat animals,wish i could string them all up :rant:   :rant:   :rant:
could someone give me some info on what they eat and best bedding etc as ive never had a guinea before :wacko: ive only ever had rabbits,rats,mice and hamsters,so any advise would be great :thumbsup:

think i will need to buy a bigger cage as my daughter says two steps and its at the other side of the cage so sounds tiny .

will put some pics on as soon as we get it here(dont know if its male or female yet either)

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Love these little chaps i do, i remember as a lad my parents going to the pet shop, bought a guinea pig for my brother, and a tortoise fer me, huge bugger it was, the torty, i had to tether the bugger to the dustbin to contain it, we had metal ones then, my brother used to do early paper rounds, and i remember on his way home we could hear my brother whistling, so i let roger the piggy out the cage, up the yard it would run and down the back street to follow him home, russet in colour, called roger

keith

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what a lovely story and such good memories :thumbsup: my grandma always had tortoises,i remember going to grans and looking in the garden for them as they was always roaming freely in the day.

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Good and bad memories indeed, i used to live near pylon cables, many a time the swans would fly into the cables and down they would come, i used to take em home, look after em then let em go, i can see my mothers face to this day walking down our path with a swan tuckedunder my arm. :lol: cud write a best seller bout my exploits

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im sure it would make a dam good read too :thumbsup:

we wasnt allowed pets when we was kids,mum and dad didnt like them,maybe thats why ive gone overboard now (w00t)

 

[Nicola]

Doughnut, Pecan and Conker in the summer before I lost Conker. These three boys lived together.

This is baby Clara at two days old.

Baby Tilly at two days old.

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Aren't baby piggies just the cutest things. :wub: It's amazing how they are born with eyes open, ready to eat normal food, and with a full coat etc. Miniature adults! Apparently they are sexually mature at 4 weeks. I've heard true accounts of baby guinea pigs being bought from a pet superstore (mention no names) :- " already pregnant, as they weren't seperated early enough into different pens(w00t) . The new owners were just a tad surprised when their guinea pig population exploded overnight :blink:

 

[Flowerpot]

Hi Nicola...That`s what happened to me ! All my pigs are rescued except Polly who I bought from pet shop.....I thought she was a little podgy and then she had a miscarriage but continued to be pregnant....I was worried out of my mind as she was such a baby herself.... :rant:

I worked out the dates and she had got pregnant at 3WEEKS !!! I have heard this before too....I was so angry I went ballistic with P@H...It`s a wonder you all didn`t hear me !! :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant:

Anyway...When the babies were born I was over the moon with them and Polly was such a good little mother...EVERYONE in the village knew I had babies...I was sooooo happy !!! :wub: :wub:

They are big now but Polly is still small...This is the result of early pregnancy but she is very well and a poppet !!

P@H did make good as much as they could. They checked the breeder...*I* made them ... and they offered me a free hutch with food. I didn`t need these so I asked them if I could have a free gerbilarium instead ...They said yes so I rescued a lovely little Gerbil to go in it. I called her Demelza and she lives beside my other older gerbil Tinkerbelle.....So some good did come out of it.

I am amazed at how many of you have piggies...It`s lovely isn`t it !!! :thumbsup:

 

[jue332]

That's exactly what happened to us when we bought our 3 guinea pigs from the well known pet store, a few weeks later we had 3 adults and 2 babies

I went out to feed them one morning and did a double take when i saw the babies (w00t) I thought i was seeing things :lol:

They are lovely little babies, our were cream and reminded me of cotton wool balls, all furry, eyes open and squeaking after a few hour old :wub: :wub:

Our adults were girls and the babies were a girl and a boy, we kept the girl and my friend had the boy, these babies lived to be 7 years old.

We called ours Tilly, Toffee, Candy and the baby was Deirdre :b

After many phone calls, visits and letters to the store they admitted they had sold us a pregnant guinea pig and did compensate us. Needless to say I wouldn't buy any animal from there again :angry: