Hidey houses that can't be tipped up

[pelicano]

I'm looking for ideas for hidey houses I can either make or buy that can't be tipped. Ideally not plastic, because it will soon start getting hot, or wood, as it will get too mucky. Misty is notorious for tipping things up. Up to now they've had paper bags with fleece pads and hay inside, but both of them eat paper quite a lot.

What I would really like are heavy ceramic houses, but I don't know whether such a thing exists.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Bill & Ted]

I would avoid ceramics as in the event of a tip up they are heavy and quite unforgiving. Burrowing and uplifting are all part of a guinea pig natural behaviour in the wild. A paper bag is safe enough to eat too

 

[rp1993]

How about cuddle sacks? Or tunnels? They are firm favourites with our boys. We have a wooden one that cannot be tipped as well but as you say it does get a little
Grubby!

 

[pelicano]

This is my issue with the uplifting, because I have always worried about Pearl being hit by a flying house when Misty is on the rampage!

I also wondered about trying to make something within the (C&C) cage with grids, so it's part of the cage itself. Not sure what to cover it with to make it enclosed.

 

[pelicano]

They already have fleecey things to sleep in, but they aren't so keen as with a house to hide in.

 

[rp1993]

This is my issue with the uplifting, because I have always worried about Pearl being hit by a flying house when Misty is on the rampage!

I also wondered about trying to make something within the (C&C) cage with grids, so it's part of the cage itself. Not sure what to cover it with to make it enclosed.

You could do a long fleece forest? Across one end of the cage our pigs love fleece forests.

 

[flowerfairy]

Mine have ikea dolls beds that they lie under.

 

[pelicano]

I'd never have thought of something like that. Is it these? DUKTIG pine, multicolour, Doll's bed with bedlinen set - IKEA

 

[Little Ones]

This is my issue with the uplifting, because I have always worried about Pearl being hit by a flying house when Misty is on the rampage!

I also wondered about trying to make something within the (C&C) cage with grids, so it's part of the cage itself. Not sure what to cover it with to make it enclosed.

We also had this problem, one piggy who likes to ‘rearrange’ his furniture and a blind piggy being unsuspectingly hit by a falling hidey!
Do you have the hideys pushed into the corners? The solution we found was to make sure there was a piggy sized gap all the way around the hidey so that they could walk around it freely. After that we stopped seeing hideys falling over.
We were also seeing the same issue in our other boar pair but it wasn’t a concern because both piggies were sighted and young/energetic, but once we left a gap all the way around each hidey the behaviour also stopped in their cage too.

 

[flowerfairy]

I'd never have thought of something like that. Is it these? DUKTIG pine, multicolour, Doll's bed with bedlinen set - IKEA

Yes thats the one. I love them!

 

[Piggies06]

Haha, I've honestly struggled with this so much with my two pigs as well! Ngl the one thing that continuously works for me is just cutting a hole or two into a rectangle cardboard box! My pigs do chew on it and it needs to be replaced somewhat regularly, but it's free and they for some reason don't tip them over either.
Also if you haven't already, try just putting the hidey's that you do have, in corners. That makes it harder for them to "rearrange" and tip them over.