We are enjoying the company of our two lovely 3 year old rescue piggies. They are living inside, spending night time in a wooden hutch (36' x 24") and day time in an enclosure made with 5 squares by three squares (with roof). The reason they are in a hutch at night is because I don't trust one of the cats even with a roof on their regular cage.
I am curious: as a child in England, our piggies lived outside year round, in their hutch under a covered porch in summer, in their hutch in an unheated shed in winter. They had sawdust on the floor and a big box of hay to sleep in in their sleepping box. They grazed outside in an ark with a sleeping box from April until October.
Are they a different breed of piggy? I have never heard of anyone keeping a guinea pig indoors in England (maybe a garage but never in the house. And if you waited for it to be 65 degrees they would only go outside about two weeks a year!
Ours (brothers)lived happily until 8 years old and were never sick.
We are keeping our wonderful piggies
inside because that is what we were advised (although we did take them out on the grass on a warm day this week and they loved it, especially clover)
I am just curious why they are treated so differently. We live near San Jose so it is pretty warm 9 months of the year, although cold at nights.