Pearl and Zip
Teenage Guinea Pig
I haven’t really introduced myself. I’m not new to the forum, but I’m just going to say a little about my piggies.
I have two female piggies, Pearl and Zip. Both are four years old. Though it has been four months, they still haven’t settled who’s dominant.
After several mistakes, I finally was able to make this fabric hidey for the piggies. They LOVE it. They now refuse to use the pigloo, and they’re always fighting over the “special” hidey.
One piggy sits in the cloth hidey and the other just waits outside for her turn (if she’s in a patient mood — otherwise she chutters and acts dominant). So, the pigloo is useless now.
I think I am now a cavy slave. They are forcing me to make more and more cloth hideys!
They currently are living in a pet store cage with six square feet. I have two piggies. We got them a 10.5 square foot cage, but we needed a stand for it. I found one on Craigslist for $10, but one person I’m living with insists that there will be no furniture in the house worth $10. So, we’re building our own stand. It will have a filtration system so that the pigs won’t stink. So far, it’s costing over $300, but the person who wanted to build it is paying for it, not me!
Anyways, the cage stand is taking a long time to build because of work, which takes up most of our time.
We’re hoping to finish it by February!
Our pigs have been in that small cage waayyy too long. One of our piggies died in that cage (7 years) and probably never got to experience larger cages (we don’t know for sure though, because she was adopted). One of my piggies has been in that cage for three years, and the other for four months.
Once we’re done with the cage stand, the new cage will have fleece bedding instead of paper bedding. If they love the cloth hideys now (which aren’t fleece!), I’m sure they’ll LOVE the cage liner!
In the photos Pearl is in the pigloo (finally, they’re actually using it!) and Zip is in the cloth hidey. They are chuttering at each other, acting dominant.
I have two female piggies, Pearl and Zip. Both are four years old. Though it has been four months, they still haven’t settled who’s dominant.
After several mistakes, I finally was able to make this fabric hidey for the piggies. They LOVE it. They now refuse to use the pigloo, and they’re always fighting over the “special” hidey.
One piggy sits in the cloth hidey and the other just waits outside for her turn (if she’s in a patient mood — otherwise she chutters and acts dominant). So, the pigloo is useless now.
I think I am now a cavy slave. They are forcing me to make more and more cloth hideys!
They currently are living in a pet store cage with six square feet. I have two piggies. We got them a 10.5 square foot cage, but we needed a stand for it. I found one on Craigslist for $10, but one person I’m living with insists that there will be no furniture in the house worth $10. So, we’re building our own stand. It will have a filtration system so that the pigs won’t stink. So far, it’s costing over $300, but the person who wanted to build it is paying for it, not me!
Anyways, the cage stand is taking a long time to build because of work, which takes up most of our time.
We’re hoping to finish it by February! Our pigs have been in that small cage waayyy too long. One of our piggies died in that cage (7 years) and probably never got to experience larger cages (we don’t know for sure though, because she was adopted). One of my piggies has been in that cage for three years, and the other for four months.
Once we’re done with the cage stand, the new cage will have fleece bedding instead of paper bedding. If they love the cloth hideys now (which aren’t fleece!), I’m sure they’ll LOVE the cage liner!
In the photos Pearl is in the pigloo (finally, they’re actually using it!) and Zip is in the cloth hidey. They are chuttering at each other, acting dominant.
I’m not actually new to the forum though. I just realized I never introduced myself, so I decided to do it now.
