Piggiepalace16
Junior Guinea Pig
- Joined
- Oct 16, 2016
- Messages
- 25
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First of all I don't want anyone saying that I'm a bad owner or anything like that before I begin...
So it's obviously getting very cold now in the UK and I'm getting pretty worried about my 4 girls (as shown in profile picture), they are outdoor piggies and have been since I got them about 2-3 months ago now.
They have a double tier 5 x 2 hutch with megazorb bedding on the bottom and fleece on the top. In their cosy area they have 2 hidies, 1 a pigtop from piggiepigpigs and 2 little corners they can snuggle into too. They also have a hot water bottle which is refilled in the morning and at night. It is wrapped up in a fleece blanket and buried underneath their hidies for safety reasons obviously.
They have 4 different areas downstairs where they eat their hay, in a tunnel, in their wooden hay manger, in their hay rack and stuffed inside their wooden heart house from pets at home. As well as two drinking bottles, one at the top and one at the bottom, refilled morning and night due to cold. As well as 2 pellet bowls, again top and bottom, filled twice a day (only due to it being winter and they're only about 5 months old).
They also have a hay rack upstairs too.
Now, all year round they would normally have been kept in the shed connected to my house. However my nan unfortunately passed away earlier this year :'( so all of her stuff is currently filling the shed, until my uncle can find a new place to live (which we were hoping he would have by this time because of the piggies). Bringing them inside is not a possibility as we currently have 3 rabbits indoors, and the cage we have for the guinea pigs especially is only really for emergency cases, for example bonfire night (and even that caused a mini fight to break out between two of them due to lack of space).
They are fed veggies twice a day. In total they get 1 whole pepper, 2 sticks of celery, 4 leaves of lettuce and either kale or cabbage.
Will they be alright? Please tell me what to do?
So it's obviously getting very cold now in the UK and I'm getting pretty worried about my 4 girls (as shown in profile picture), they are outdoor piggies and have been since I got them about 2-3 months ago now.
They have a double tier 5 x 2 hutch with megazorb bedding on the bottom and fleece on the top. In their cosy area they have 2 hidies, 1 a pigtop from piggiepigpigs and 2 little corners they can snuggle into too. They also have a hot water bottle which is refilled in the morning and at night. It is wrapped up in a fleece blanket and buried underneath their hidies for safety reasons obviously.
They have 4 different areas downstairs where they eat their hay, in a tunnel, in their wooden hay manger, in their hay rack and stuffed inside their wooden heart house from pets at home. As well as two drinking bottles, one at the top and one at the bottom, refilled morning and night due to cold. As well as 2 pellet bowls, again top and bottom, filled twice a day (only due to it being winter and they're only about 5 months old).
They also have a hay rack upstairs too.
Now, all year round they would normally have been kept in the shed connected to my house. However my nan unfortunately passed away earlier this year :'( so all of her stuff is currently filling the shed, until my uncle can find a new place to live (which we were hoping he would have by this time because of the piggies). Bringing them inside is not a possibility as we currently have 3 rabbits indoors, and the cage we have for the guinea pigs especially is only really for emergency cases, for example bonfire night (and even that caused a mini fight to break out between two of them due to lack of space).
They are fed veggies twice a day. In total they get 1 whole pepper, 2 sticks of celery, 4 leaves of lettuce and either kale or cabbage.
Will they be alright? Please tell me what to do?