Pickford
New Born Pup
Hi
I'm considering keeping guinea pigs as pets. I'm thinking of in a years or so's time. I keep hamsters at the moment. The thing is I can't decide between degus and guinea pigs and thought someone on here might help me decide.
I will only take rescue animals and, sadly, degus seem to come up more often than gps unless you can point me in a direction I haven't noticed? I have seen some fab cages at C and C guinea pig cages which I think are quite attractive and not ridiculously expensive. I'm lucky in that I do have quite a large space (although not quite so large a pot of money!) and, whatever animals I get, I fully intend to give them the best life I can, hence the research first. Do guinea pigs need a lot of other boredom breaking gear other than tubes, boxes and lots of other fairly inexpensive things.
So, to available time. I do work full time as does my partner, although sometimes different hours so that gives a bit more time to spend with our animals. All my hamsters get daily time out of cage time, unless they're not interested which sometimes they aren't. One of them practically lives on the sofa with us in the evenings. :-) My intention with guinea pigs would be for them to have a large cage, probably with a second floor at some point with the option of coming out and being able to roam further when we are in and, obviously some sofa and cuddling time. I have a bit of an issue with caged animals if I'm honest so want to give them more space and less cage.
I guess my main issue with guinea pigs is that I've always thought of them as a child's pet and that degus might be more interesting? Silly that, I know, since I currently keep hamsters but hey! ;-)
Anyway, enough waffle. I'll be grateful for your thoughts please.
I'm considering keeping guinea pigs as pets. I'm thinking of in a years or so's time. I keep hamsters at the moment. The thing is I can't decide between degus and guinea pigs and thought someone on here might help me decide.
I will only take rescue animals and, sadly, degus seem to come up more often than gps unless you can point me in a direction I haven't noticed? I have seen some fab cages at C and C guinea pig cages which I think are quite attractive and not ridiculously expensive. I'm lucky in that I do have quite a large space (although not quite so large a pot of money!) and, whatever animals I get, I fully intend to give them the best life I can, hence the research first. Do guinea pigs need a lot of other boredom breaking gear other than tubes, boxes and lots of other fairly inexpensive things.
So, to available time. I do work full time as does my partner, although sometimes different hours so that gives a bit more time to spend with our animals. All my hamsters get daily time out of cage time, unless they're not interested which sometimes they aren't. One of them practically lives on the sofa with us in the evenings. :-) My intention with guinea pigs would be for them to have a large cage, probably with a second floor at some point with the option of coming out and being able to roam further when we are in and, obviously some sofa and cuddling time. I have a bit of an issue with caged animals if I'm honest so want to give them more space and less cage.
I guess my main issue with guinea pigs is that I've always thought of them as a child's pet and that degus might be more interesting? Silly that, I know, since I currently keep hamsters but hey! ;-)
Anyway, enough waffle. I'll be grateful for your thoughts please.