Do Your Indoor Piggies Get Outside Playtime?

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I am meeting two guinea pigs tomorrow that are in rescue...the rescue want to do s home check to see their potential indoor home (ferplast 120 with plenty of floor playtime in a puppy pen) and they also said they would like to see the garden and run.

I wasn't actually planning on putting them outside on the grass as we have dogs that use the grass to toilet on.

We could potentially fence some of the garden off for the piggies and put a run in the fenced off but but that wouldn't be done now before the home check.
Just wondering if anyone has adopted piggies and been unable to offer immediate outside playtime?
 
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I am meeting two guinea pigs tomorrow that are in rescue...the rescue want to do s home check to see their potential indoor home (ferplast 120 with plenty of floor playtime in a puppy pen) and they also said they would like to see the garden and run.

I wasn't actually planning on putting them outside on the grass as we have dogs that use the grass to toilet on.

We could potentially fence some of the garden off for the piggies and put a run in the fenced off but but that wouldn't be done now before the home check.
Just wondering if anyone has adopted piggies and been unable to offer immediate outside playtime?
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Just tell them you only us a inside run & the reason why you don't allow it outside.They won't bite, honestly.
We don't pick grass off the lawn because of animals peeing over it. Instead we grow it in a couple of old cages that has a cage over it.
 
Thanks for your reply! We have a front garden that we can pick grass from but I wouldn't want to actually put the piggies out there!
 
Just be honest.
Make it clear that it would be possible to provide an outside area for any piggies that you adopted, but it would require some planning.

In all honesty I think a lot of people can't offer regular (or indeed any) outside time for their piggies.
We have four guinea pigs, and the Summer this year was pretty cold and wet.
Outside time is officially over in our part of Switzerland - the lawn is just never dry enough now.
We still cut grass by hand every day, but the reality is than in less than 3 months that will no longer be an option - it will be covered in snow.

So the harsh reality is that our guinea pigs get regular lawn time for about 4 months out of every 12.
 
My lot don't go outside.We have three dogs and there are cats roaming.The front is slate.Their run is 28 square foot in their own room protected by a baby gate.
 
Mine go outside if weather is good but they get spooked easily by planes and neighbourhood cats and normally after half an hour of eating grass they are all in the wooden hidey huts looking nervous and then i bring them in. My next garden project is to try and cat proof the garden.
 
MrsMoo said:
Mine go outside if weather is good but they get spooked easily by planes and neighbourhood cats and normally after half an hour of eating grass they are all in the wooden hidey huts looking nervous and then i bring them in. My next garden project is to try and cat proof the garden.
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My girls are the same! about 20 minutes grass eating, keeping to the perimeters of the run! then 2 desperate faces pressed up the bars begging to come back inside!
 
Thanks all...we went and met the rescue and the piggies in question and I explained everything and it's fine! Piggie girls reserved pending thursdays home check! Fingers crossed! :yahoo:
 
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