[phantom35]

As the weather has got so so lovely over the past few weeks, I bought an outdoor run for my guinea pigs. The run is massive....the biggest one I could find and I was very excited about letting the pigs spend time outside grazing on the grass. I only put them out there for a few hours at a time (I don't think it's safe enough to keep them out there without being watched!!!) but all they do is hide away in their little box! I imagine it's quite scary going outside what with all the new noises, but it seems to have affected what they are like in doors now! My girlies are 8 months old, and they used to be popcorning all over the place, wheeking constantly and just really relaxed and happy to let me stroke them and pick them up...but since I've been putting them outside they just hide away all the time and don't like me stroking them!
Very surprised as I thought it would have the opposite effect!! Has anyone else experienced this before?? Is it just a case of waiting and letting them get used to going outside??

Has anyone got any advice on washing guinea pigs???...I'm going to wash my girls for the first time tonight (they are both long haired coronets) and just want to make sure I'm going about the right way of doing it!! I've been told its best to wash them with johnsons baby shampoo and dry them with a hair dryer afterwards...bit worried the noise may frighten them though and make them even more skitish!!!

Phantom35