| Two tricks I recently tried and worked
As some of you may know about two weeks ago I got two female guinea pigs. However, they have not been drinking out of their water bottles and were not going to the second level. To remedy these two problems I came up with two solutions. Since my water bottle spout goes through the coroplast first I put a piece of their pellet food above the spout so they would have to use their teeth to get it out. As they did this they would bump the spout and water would come out. They finally learned that this little spout sticking in gave them water. For the final dilemma I found another nifty solution. Once a day I would pick the little poops out of the cage with gloves. They would get scared and freak out. So I decided before I would do that to put some fresh veggies on the second level, scoop them up and put them up their. This reduces stress for them and also is getting them used to using the second level. I just thought I would post this for anyone else who is or may have this type of trouble in the future.  |