ZoomiePops
Junior Guinea Pig
Hello fellow guinea pig parents,
I am a new member on this brilliant and helpful forum and a new mummy to 2 beautiful baby girls...Poppy and Lucy
The girls are now 6 months old and live in a decent sized hutch. For the first 3 months I had them, I kept the hutch indoors in the dining room as I felt it was too cold in January-March to keep such young piggies outside. This was not a feasible long term option and as the weather is now warmer the hutch has been outside for the past month.
Personally I am not happy with neither the hutch or the piggies being outside, so I am ordering the 2x4 cage from candcguineapigcages.co.uk and bringing them back inside - in my bedroom. I therefore have a few questions I hope you could help me with.
Firstly is the 2x4 c&c suitably sized to house my 2 babies? I am buying this with a view to extend with more cubes and maybe a loft in the near future when I move somewhere with more space. Does anyone else have this size cage and find it suitable, or even not suitable?
Secondly is the bigger query about bedding. I have read a lot of posts on here already about different types of bedding. Although these have been very helpful I am still not 100% decided. I thought I might try using fleece on 3/4's of the cage with newspaper and towels underneath. I understand from previous posts that fleece stays dry as the wee seeps through to the towels/newspaper but am worried that this would then leave soggy towels under the fleece which wouldn't dry and would then smell. Please would you mind telling me how I can get round this problem? Also, as a perfectionist it would be helpful to know the best way to spot clean the fleece as lots of poop that the girls would then squash into the fleece would drive me crazy!
In the last quarter of the cage I'd have a large tray filled with hay so they could still bury themselves and their Timothy hay rack would also be over this.
Does this set up sound ok? I am sorry for the essay, I just want the best for my spoilt piggies
Thanks for taking the time to read this and thanks also for all those of you who have written lots of useful information and posted lots of inspirational pictures. I love this forum and love being a piggie owner
x
I am a new member on this brilliant and helpful forum and a new mummy to 2 beautiful baby girls...Poppy and Lucy
The girls are now 6 months old and live in a decent sized hutch. For the first 3 months I had them, I kept the hutch indoors in the dining room as I felt it was too cold in January-March to keep such young piggies outside. This was not a feasible long term option and as the weather is now warmer the hutch has been outside for the past month.
Personally I am not happy with neither the hutch or the piggies being outside, so I am ordering the 2x4 cage from candcguineapigcages.co.uk and bringing them back inside - in my bedroom. I therefore have a few questions I hope you could help me with.
Firstly is the 2x4 c&c suitably sized to house my 2 babies? I am buying this with a view to extend with more cubes and maybe a loft in the near future when I move somewhere with more space. Does anyone else have this size cage and find it suitable, or even not suitable?
Secondly is the bigger query about bedding. I have read a lot of posts on here already about different types of bedding. Although these have been very helpful I am still not 100% decided. I thought I might try using fleece on 3/4's of the cage with newspaper and towels underneath. I understand from previous posts that fleece stays dry as the wee seeps through to the towels/newspaper but am worried that this would then leave soggy towels under the fleece which wouldn't dry and would then smell. Please would you mind telling me how I can get round this problem? Also, as a perfectionist it would be helpful to know the best way to spot clean the fleece as lots of poop that the girls would then squash into the fleece would drive me crazy!
In the last quarter of the cage I'd have a large tray filled with hay so they could still bury themselves and their Timothy hay rack would also be over this.
Does this set up sound ok? I am sorry for the essay, I just want the best for my spoilt piggies
Thanks for taking the time to read this and thanks also for all those of you who have written lots of useful information and posted lots of inspirational pictures. I love this forum and love being a piggie owner
x
