Giving My Guinea Pigs Up

[Coco+Teddie+Luna]

Hello forum. Right now I have three guinea pigs and I am seriously considering giving them away. My mother is in Nigeria right now, I am staying at my grandmothers house for 2 1/2 weeks. My uncle, his wife, and my cousin are coming and staying literally for one night and my grandmother is making a gigantic fuss about it saying to move it to my cousins room because the room I am currently sleeping in and where my guinea pigs have to stay(they have nowhere else to stay) is where my cousin and his parents will be sleeping in. Of course the problem of allergies, my cousin harming them, and so much more come into play that is stressing me out so much. The sheets I have right now are extremely limited and I don't want to waste them. I want to take them to my aunts house up in Goshen NY, but they had a snake in their basement before, but at this point, anything over my grandmothers house will work for me. But then I would also have to pack up my luggage, and I have a lot considering I was planning on staying here for 2 1\2 weeks. I cannot drive and my cousins also have their luggage to take. So I think because of how much these Guinea Pigs limit my traveling, I think I'll look into giving them up. I don't want to but I'm literally on the verge of tears because of this

 

[Piggies&buns]

I’m sorry to hear you are upset.
Have I understood correctly that need to move them from their current room to another room for one night. What is preventing you from being able to move them to that other room for one night?
After that one night, are you able to move them back into their current room?
If you are currently in the room with the piggies and they need to move to another room, will you also be moving to that other room?
Who has allergies?
What do you mean by the sheets are extremely limited?
Where are you going in two weeks and a half time?

I think maybe I’m not quite understanding the situation fully

 

[Coco+Teddie+Luna]

Yes, I would need to move them for one night. The sheets are the issue, I don't want to be wasting them just to move my pigs back and forth. My cousins go home on Saturday which is also the day my uncle is coming and he will leave the next day. I will be gone as I will go with my cousins for a day and go to a club meeting I have to go to then come back to my grandmother's house. I brought an air freshener(the ones you plug in) just so they wouldn't smell, and its strong and working, fortunately. My grandma fears my cousin may have allergies or that he may even kill him, he's a toddler. I only have one pack of sheets, I don't use fleece I use doggy pads for the pigs which works. I don't want to waste them. I'll be staying with my grandmother for the 2 1\2 weeks where the situation of moving them to one room and another is happening and I am considering taking them to my aunts house.

 

[Piggies&buns]

So by sheets you mean puppy pads. Why would you be wasting them? You can just put them back in the cage once you’ve moved it - you don’t need to use fresh ones if they are not completely soiled.

Can they not be moved to the room and the door kept shut while your cousin is there?
Does your cousin actually have allergies?

Dont use a plug in air freshener in the same room as the guinea pigs. The smell is much too strong for piggies sensitive nasal passages.

But, in two weeks time are you going back home?

I'm just wondering whether giving them up seems a knee jerk reaction to one night having to be in a different room?

If you would feel more comfortable with them being at your aunts house, then that sounds like a possible solution

 

[Deleted member 148738]

You could just move them into the other room for one night and then move them back? I'm confused what the problem might be?

 

[Princess Dustmop]

Are there two cousins? The one visiting for one night and one in the room you'd be moving into, or just the one visiting?
If it's just one visiting, you should be able to keep your piggies in the other room and monitor to make sure the toddler isn't in the room alone with the piggies.