| Re: Salt?
You say that you consider it junk food and that animals seem happy eating it. If it was junk food and ate it like humans then why do I never see them use all that much. A normal salt wheel last about 2 months up to 5 months, depending on how much they use it. If they used it like you seemed to imply then why does it last as long as it does?
Sometimes the best information is not from something you've found online or in a book but instead by learning and gaining expirence. Also one of the things about owning an animal for an amount of time you learn to tell when they are feeling "off". If one of my animals ever got ill due to something they ate I would remove it before they die or something like that, I would never leave anything bad in with them.
That's why I joined this forum, to learn from people with expirence with Guinea Pigs... Things they learned from owning the animals and not just what they read. Not every animal is the same and most certainly no expirences will be the same but you gather information to help find something that works with your animals.
I wasn't trying to start a fight and I am truely sorry if I did anything wrong. I'm just trying to impart my expirences with, like this time salt licks, something that's happening(ed) with my animal to hopefully help or to teach. Isn't that one of the main purposes of this forum? To help each other?  |