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Hi, I'm a new guinea pig owner. So I was playing with my guinea pig, letting her jump off my hand and onto the floor. She did great the first few times, then the last time I think she landed wrong and hurt her leg. We took her to the vet and took an Xray. Her left thigh is fractured in two...

So when I got given my two piggies I noticed straight away they were quite dirty, especially the white one! So I want to give them a nice clean to make them look the cutest they can! So how do I do this? Is it water and shampoo or sand? Or is there an even easier way of keeping them clean?

Very soon I will be a guinea pig owner, which I am really excited about. I am pretty much prepared, just a few things I can get round at my local B&M. So I have an outdoor hutch ready. I wanted a hutch with a run and a bit more space but I didn't have the money to get it on such short time (I...

So I have been asking for two Guinea Pigs for ages, and my friend is giving away her two. So we decided to take them. They are arriving in around 4 days. I ordered a load of toys online and that has arrived, the hutch is ready and built, the garden and grass is perfect and food and water and all...

I have two Abyssinian Guinea pigs one is 3-4 months the other was born March 29th so he's almost 2 months. The younger one is white with long hair for an aby and his bottom half underside and hind legs are very dirty! I'm worried about upsetting the bond if I bathe him as the elder pig doesn't...

I just recently adopted a young boar (Milo) from my local rescue to be a companion for my previously lone piggy Keiko. Keiko will rumble strut constantly, occasionally force Milo's chin up, and a few odd times I have seen him nibble Milo's ears. None of this seems to bother Milo as he follows...

Hi everyone! I've been actively searching for a young boar to bond with my Keiko, and the ONE AND ONLY piggies rescue near me came through! They had a litter of 3 pigs recently (mom was already pregnant when they brought her in, obviously they do not breed) and there is one boy! The sisters will...

My new cage arrives today (ordered from the site associated with my rescue who make any size C&C cage you want single or multi leveled), and on Wednesday I am off to the store to purchase another water bottle and hidey to prepare to either adopt (hopefully adopt, depends on gender of the rescues...

Hi, so this is not an infamous C&C cage, but I would like thoughts on it. Right now I have one young boar (3months) in a cage that can only house one pig, I am searching for a friend for him and came upon this. It is from The Guinea Pig Store which is an online store based very close to me, I am...

So I've had my Guinea pig for a couple of months and I feed him well and clean him well too. But today I woke up to hearing him whining almost moaning. It's not a loud noise or high pitched. I've searched and searched everywhere to see what the noise he is making means but I can't find anything...

hello, I have 2 male Guinea pigs and was wondering for some advice. I've had the piggies for a week now, I have spot cleaned the cage everyday and changed the fleece blanket I use twice in the space if the week, under the fleece blanket I have a roll of carpet and under that some newspaper. This...

Hello all, my sisters and I are first time guinea pig owners, we got three boys a couple of months ago. I was just wondering is there a way to toilet train your piggies? Or a way to keep the cage a little more clean... I find that after cleaning the cage, within the next twenty four hours there...

Ok! so i have two new piggies. got one a week ago and added his little brother 2 days ago.Their names are Darryl and Rick, like from the walking dead :) they are extremely skiddish. I built them a big c&c cage to which they love! they eat and run around all night and i guess day too but I'm not...

Hi Guys, I've never owned a Guinea Pig before. After about a year of thinking about it and making sure it wasn't an impulse decision and doing relevant research and go plenty of times to pet shops to look at the guinea pigs and get my daughter ready and not to mention finally buy my own house...

Hi! So I'm new to owning a Guinea pig but it had all been going well. He was super happy, seemly health and very active. My life became very hectic and I stopped playing with him like I should. I fed and cleaned him for the past two weeks but rarely played. I came to him today to find him...

Hi everyone I just got a little guy today, his names Padfoot. I rehomed him from someone who was unable to care for him, and he's tame but at the same time not? Everytime I go near his cage or anything he freaks out and runs around terrified. But when I actually get him out of the cage he will...

HI lovelies! I had guinea pigs when I was a child 2 beautiful short hair girlies called Nibbles and Bubbles. Unfortunately Bubbles died suddenly with no actual cause of death aged about 3 and Nibbles died not long after with a respiratory problem. Now about 10/11 years later I have a...

I've only had my guinea pigs for over a week and the one is losing fur around his eye I've booked him in for the vets earliest I could get is tomorrow any ideas what it could be? I have two young boys and I put it down to fighting but it seems to have gotten worse! I'm new to this forum and I'm...