NMPygmyMom
New Born Pup
Hello.
I'm looking for housing help...
I have a young male in the Amazon brand of the Midwest enclosure - I think this is the link for it... https://smile.amazon.com/AmazonBasi...ds=guinea+pig+cage&qid=1634440533&sr=8-4&th=1
(So it's canvas bottom, 24" by 48" with wire walls and open top. When I adopted him he was in a smaller cage approximately 20" by 36" with plastic bottom and fully enclosed wire top. He was fully in paper litter.)
I had a pair of females before and had them in two adjoined Midwest cages.
In both cases - the girls before and him now, fleece liners, corner potty boxes, and cozy beds and hidey-houses.
What I'm struggling with is that this little boy is an absolute pig - lol.
He has little regard for using his litter box - sometimes very consistent, other times not at all.
He gladly pees in his cozy spots and sleeps in it. He poops in his food bowl.
My two girls together were half as messy as he is alone. :-(
I pick up after him two, three times a day and launder his fleece liners and bedding twice a week. And that doesn't feel often enough.
At this point I am rather frustrated. I would probably be better off to have him fully on paper bedding to have less washing. But I don't want to put him back in a fully enclosed cage with smaller dimensions so that I can have a plastic tray again.
I would love to find a plastic bin of the right dimensions that I could insert into the wire walls, just deep enough to accommodate paper bedding (perhaps 5" high?).
I hate that he is an only pig, and would love to work toward adopting another male in the future (as I did when I adopted my two females separately and eventually worked to have them live together). But at this point he is so messy and so much upkeep, I can't imagine adding another. I think having him back on paper litter will ease the workload a bit and make that more feasible.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for reading my long post and for any help you can provide!
I'm looking for housing help...
I have a young male in the Amazon brand of the Midwest enclosure - I think this is the link for it... https://smile.amazon.com/AmazonBasi...ds=guinea+pig+cage&qid=1634440533&sr=8-4&th=1
(So it's canvas bottom, 24" by 48" with wire walls and open top. When I adopted him he was in a smaller cage approximately 20" by 36" with plastic bottom and fully enclosed wire top. He was fully in paper litter.)
I had a pair of females before and had them in two adjoined Midwest cages.
In both cases - the girls before and him now, fleece liners, corner potty boxes, and cozy beds and hidey-houses.
What I'm struggling with is that this little boy is an absolute pig - lol.
He has little regard for using his litter box - sometimes very consistent, other times not at all.
He gladly pees in his cozy spots and sleeps in it. He poops in his food bowl.
My two girls together were half as messy as he is alone. :-(
I pick up after him two, three times a day and launder his fleece liners and bedding twice a week. And that doesn't feel often enough.
At this point I am rather frustrated. I would probably be better off to have him fully on paper bedding to have less washing. But I don't want to put him back in a fully enclosed cage with smaller dimensions so that I can have a plastic tray again.
I would love to find a plastic bin of the right dimensions that I could insert into the wire walls, just deep enough to accommodate paper bedding (perhaps 5" high?).
I hate that he is an only pig, and would love to work toward adopting another male in the future (as I did when I adopted my two females separately and eventually worked to have them live together). But at this point he is so messy and so much upkeep, I can't imagine adding another. I think having him back on paper litter will ease the workload a bit and make that more feasible.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for reading my long post and for any help you can provide!