Dwarfpotato
Junior Guinea Pig
This is my first winter with pigs. Tico and Cookie live indoors in my lounge. It's a big room (open plan downstairs) and I'm already spending a fortune on heating just to keep it warm enough for them. I don't have another room they can go in. I have a snugglesafe that I warm up but they spend all their time on it or under blankets so clearly the rest of the room isn't really warm enough.
This is their cage. It's 4x3 equivalent. The sides are about 70cm high.
What would be people's recommendations to heat just their bit? I'd rather not an oil filled radiator as it would end up heating the whole lounge. Other options I'm considering are a big wooden house with a tubular heater in (would take a long time to make. Might be a bit gloomy?) or a heat mat of some sort (would it only be warm when they sit on it?) I could put a duvet over their cage but it would be dark inside then, and I wouldn't get to see them
Pig tax from floor time yesterday when I was changing their fleece:
This is their cage. It's 4x3 equivalent. The sides are about 70cm high.
What would be people's recommendations to heat just their bit? I'd rather not an oil filled radiator as it would end up heating the whole lounge. Other options I'm considering are a big wooden house with a tubular heater in (would take a long time to make. Might be a bit gloomy?) or a heat mat of some sort (would it only be warm when they sit on it?) I could put a duvet over their cage but it would be dark inside then, and I wouldn't get to see them
Pig tax from floor time yesterday when I was changing their fleece: