Cardboard Tubes

do u recycle cardboard tube for guinea pigs

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who tries to make sure that cardboard tube are not in the trash then use it for their guinea pigs? i do and i am wondering
 
No. I tried the cardboard tubes a couple of times but the piggies have no interest even if I fill them up with pellets and hay. They don't like to play with anything except their fleece tunnels.
 
I save a few. My neighbour used to give me big sturdy ones, but as the piggies got bigger, I was afraid they would get stuck.
 
Kylie80 said:
No. I tried the cardboard tubes a couple of times but the piggies have no interest even if I fill them up with pellets and hay. They don't like to play with anything except their fleece tunnels.
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mine do just the same... and into the tunnels they fall asleep... :(
 
My 3 girls much prefer a paper bag filled with hay than a cardboard tube. Maybe it’s because they can get inside the bag & munch away.
How many piggies can fit at the same time in a hay filled paper bag? Today 2 managed to both be in the bag with the hay while the 3rd munched from the side :D xx
 
Hoppity.K said:
My 3 girls much prefer a paper bag filled with hay than a cardboard tube. Maybe it’s because they can get inside the bag & munch away.
How many piggies can fit at the same time in a hay filled paper bag? Today 2 managed to both be in the bag with the hay while the 3rd munched from the side :D xx
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my sows are a bit afraid of paper bags... the boar is interested in hay inside and then... he falls asleep into the bag... :zzz:
 
Mine loved the cardboard tubes. When they got new ones Bubble used to lay in it and do a wee and a poo at the same time so there would be a nice brown stain inside and Squeak liked to strip the paper off the outside.
 
Tried it in the past and they just looked at me as if they're saying "what the effin hell you want us to do with it". :xd::xd: We even bought them those big cardboard tube from PetsAtHome and same thing, not interested. So in the end we just gave it to my stepdaughter coz she has rabbits and guinea pigs that might be interested with it. My piggies prefer loads of cardboard boxes for house instead, so they can munch it and eventually destroy it. :doh:
 
l use the big cardboard tubes from the local carpet store,and cut them down with my bread knife into 2, 3 and4 foot bits,some times they have plastic tubes,l place serval in a pile and cover them with hay,they last a few weeks,then l throw the cardboard ones(whats left of them)and wash the plastic ones.plus they have small boxs filled with hay and grass,they love them.
 
I have a carpet inner tube that I say up and use as tunnels (I say ‘I’ but I mean OH) and it’s brilliant. They’re not much interested in small ones filled with hay, probably because they have hay everywhere else too!
 
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Mine love the toilet roll inners they pick them up and throw them across the cage. Spike especially likes to move them around and put them into things,the pellet bowl, the IMG_9349.webp hidey and the bigger tube (I get mine in Wilco). Peanut likes to strip the paper out of the big cardboard tubes, Spike uses it as a poop toilet :vom:. They also love paper bags stuffed with hay and cardboard boxes.
 
I give mine a wicker tunnel filled with timothy hay which they all like. I would worry about a tunnel rolling with one of them inside unless I had proped it between two solid things.

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I was in the process of moving stuff out of the hutch to clean it and temporarily forgot that 1 small tube + 2 piggies doesn't work. My maths has improved since and I get all the hideys out first and then the pigs!

Going back to the original question, mine are normally in quite a big hutch and they love using these as tunnels to get from one end of the hutch to the other, "under cover", as it were. They normally speed through them too quickly to have a chance to roll over, this was just because they both ran in from opposite ends at once!
 
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