HannahPiggie
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi folks My boy Saga has only had a water bowl in his cage for the past 7 months due to the fact that when he had a fight with his brother and had to be moved I didn't have 2 water bottles. He has always been fine with this and drunk regularly from the bowl. However, over the past few weeks I have noticed that his chest is often wet because of the water dripping down him and his hair getting in the bowl. Also, I have been having to change the bowl multiple times a day because he would end up eating nuggets and then drinking and moving between the two and the wash back would get food in his water bowl and also make his nuggets all soggy. Plus I have changed his cage (as he never went in the big house area anyway) so that he has a hidey, but no flat / hard place to put a bowl of water. I gave him a water bottle about 3 days ago but I haven't seen him drink out of it yet, and I'm worried that he doesn't know how. His brother uses a bottle in the neighbouring cage with no problems. But as they are not together in 1 cage, I worry that he has no one to show him what to do. I don't want him getting dehydrated. I put a water bowl in twice earlier on, as I was so worried. The first time he took a quick sip and then whizzed off. The second time he didn't use it at all. What do you think? Will he work it out for himself?