Chewing carpet?

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I love letting my girls have free time in the lounge but they are obsessed with chewing the carpet! I don't have long pile carpet, just the normal short stuff but they dig their teeth into it and pull at it!

Is there anything I can do to stop this? Hubby's learnt to toelrate piggy poop on the carpet but he draws the line at holes!
 
How big is your carpet? Can you put a bath towel or something similar over the top so they can pull at that? I use an old toilet mat with lots of fringes from my mother-in-laws, and it's a good distraction. Unfortunately, "no" doesn't work well with guinea pigs.

PS: Mine make a beeline for carpet fringes and it irritates the hell out of my hubby!
 
Thanks. Have put a couple of old towels down which has started lots of sniffing and wheeking! :)) No chewing yet but they're thinking about it! We've got a 26ft lounge which they have the run of so the towels can only cover a small section but hopefully it's enough to distract them!

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Mine have the run of the living room while I'm around - which is most of the day, so I have similar problems. On the whole, I've found that distraction works best where a problem zone can't be blocked off.

Towels with a chube stuck in make wonderful hide-and-seek places!
 
If they have certain places where they chew, you can get some cheap door mats from Tesco (the thin ones for £2-3) and put them over the critical zone.
 
I put a big throw down but if they nibble it just chase them away!:))
I put hay on the throw (in boxes, tubes, hiding holes) to keep them that way most of the time & it definitely works :) but I guess that is no suprise as my piggies are rarely... well, not hungry!-c
 
Yes, they are definitely best described as big vacuums with a fur coating and an impressive feed-me-now alarm attached....

I'm glad that the distraction works! Shift things around regularly or introduce new bits - toilet rolls with hay or little bits cucumber or carrot in, dry leaves to investigate and nibble, dry bits of soft ornamental grass without sharp edges, boken unsprayed rose blooms, carrot or parsnip peel, an empty soap box, even a saucer or a mug or bowl that has been slushed with some fruit juice for licking, a parsley pot that has gone over...

Desperation makes inventive! If you got offcuts of wood or mdf you can build little hurdles or platform with a treat on top.
 
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