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Hi, heard alot about guinea pigs that run free not in a cage/hutch/C&C. Is this true, can you?
Mine do; thankfully, they prefer to keep in the living room, although they can find their way back from the kitchen without trouble.
I have no live cables where they can get at them, corners behind the sofa and the cage are blocked off, and they have special piggy corners which are underlayed with plastic and topped with mats and bath towels. There are the odd little nibble marks on the wallpaper and the table legs, and we need to clean the carpet regularly.
It is fun watching them running up and down the living room at top speed or moving in a lovely piggy train. I usually have a welcome commity by the living room door at dinner time, so I have to be very careful when opening the door!
You have to learn to develop eyes in your back, but so far, in over five years, I have never stepped on a piggy, although we had the odd little bump when we were both moving in the same direction.
But I used to have a guinea pig that happily explored the whole house from the inside of the fridge to every single room upstairs and most of the garden completely under her own steam. Can you imagine trying to explain to the gasman that you are piggy-proofing your stairs?
Minx was more like a tiny dog than a conventional piggy, and certainly lived up to her name! She'd come to me when I called her and would follow me through the garden (although that was a bit dependent on how much fun poking around the borders was!)
Yeah, i know!Imagine all the safety equipment needed around the house for a baby whos just learnt to crawl. If theres a hole, there in it and If they can see it, they'll eat it lol. Piggies are just the same if not worse lol. Very inquisitive little creatures. I suppose if you have a wipeable floor in an area that was... erm.... Empty it would be 100% safe lol
i let mine run free round living room every night but go back in cage to sleep