Help My Guinea Pigs Are Being Attacked!!!!! Help!!!

[Haley0489]

Originally Posted by Treauremapper

My idea would be to install a dog kennel around the hutch. One of those chain link wire kennels with a door, so that the kennel sits in the center. The entire structure would need to have a roof or be in a porch with a roof. If it is strong enough to prevent dogs from getting out, it should be strong enough to prevent a cat from getting in.

But, sadly, sometimes it is better to rehome a guinea pig.

Originally Posted by Simmonkey

My father is allergic to rabbit urine. He almost died once a while back, when I had a rabbit. But I would put a sterdy top on the cage. ANd then put a cage withen a cage

A cage within a cage doesn't stop snakes, mice, and other small animals from entering the cage and harming your pig. Nor does it keep them cool in the summer or warm in the winter.

Guinea pigs shouldn't be housed outside, period!

[Simmonkey]

most balls around the stables, no snakes. Lemon spray (pet save and not to close to the cage of course) no spiders, mice, what the crap is a mouse going to do besides eat his food? :P My main consern is the dogs. and we fixed that. My mom mad me put him into a pet store cage and I felt bad so I had o find a new envrament for him. And I did. Pigs can be housed outside. In the wild where do you think they live?

[Haley0489]

Mice carry disease, maybe you missed all the posts VJ posted at the beginning of this thread. And what about the weather? Does it rain where you live? Does it snow? Does it get cold? Hot? Is it windy? This isn't ideal living conditions of a guinea pig, and the guinea pigs that we know and love are NOT like the ones in the wild. I find it very hard to believe you don't have snakes or spiders in the country. Got ants? I'm sure the guinea pig will love having ants in his pen.

If you don't want him in a petstore cage you should put him in a C&C in your home.

Originally Posted by VoodooJoint

Dangers of Outdoor Housing
UK GP housed outside dies of heatstroke
GPs stolen from outdoor cage
2 GPs in outdoor cage killed by dog (on Animal Precinct)
HAWK, drops guinea pig in someone's yard
Violent thugs batter family pets to death
Thread about people breaking into outdoor hutches and sheds
2 guinea pigs stolen from outdoor shed
Guinea pig attacked by rats in shed
Magpies attacking GPs in their outdoor hutches
4 GPs dead. Cause is a suspected mouse infestation in shed and garden
Ant infested yard and hutches
Warning for those keeping animals outside
Guinea pigs stolen from "Cavy Sanctuary"
GPs stolen from outdoor garden
More Guinea pigs die of heatstroke
Guinea Pig Killed by Cat

Summer is Coming. Should You House Your GP Outside?
Outdoor vs Indoor

[Simmonkey]

I can't! my mom also wanted me to give him away for health issues! Moth balls keep the snakes away. No thugs! Tottaly prrotected from cats, dogs, and all flying animals. Maby you missed the part about "In a Stable" its not like its out in the open for him to be rained on and snowed on (not that it snows here very often) As for ants, we are putting sugar and fire ant killers around the stables as we speak. If the weather gets to rough we bring him in.

[VoodooJoint]

Simmonkey - Watch your step. You are starting to walk on very thin ice. Your language and attitude is starting to cross the line of what is accepted around here.

I suggest you do a TON more research before you seriously harm your pet. Do some research on the diseases mice and rats can spread as well as the damage they can do to a pet.

Do you honestly think you have no spiders?

I'm starting to think you are just here to cause a little trouble. If you don't start acting and posting rationally then you will end up forcing us to have to show you the door.

[Toadies]

Guinea pigs are not livestock or a commodity! They are sweet, fragile, helpless creatures that, if you're going to have them, deserve a place in the house! If that is not possible, for whatever reason, then it would be loving to find them a place that can accomodate their special needs. You have to love them more than what you want. You have to love them enough to do what's best for them.

[Simmonkey]

I have no more comments on the matter.

[RainKindle]

Mice carry diseases that can be deadly to pets. That's how we lost my brother's iguana at my old place.

Our pampered iguana was kept inside of course, (we live in Minnesota.) which is also partly why the mice wanted in so badly. We discovered, too late, that mice were sneaking inside the iguana cage to get at the iguana's pellets. The mice carried diseases that the iguana could not fight, and that is how we lost her.
Shortly afterwards, mom got a cat, because the cat smell kept out the field mice.
I still have my cat, she is a senior cat now living out her comfortable life. Mom's cat shares her home with my guinea pig and an additional cat.
My guinea pig lives with me comfortably in the basement in a cat proof capable home just in case, while the cats have free reign of the upstairs.
Ever since I started volunteering with adoptable rabbits, I've discovered that I may be allergic to the timothy hay. Therefore I simply take generic zyrtec or generic claritin. I was not going to give up my guinea over a mere allergy.
Also, my sweetheart happens to be very allergic to pet dander. When he mentioned that he wanted pets in our future and I asked him how that would work due to his allergies, he said, "I will get the allergy shots."
I have since come to the conclusion that if I were ever so extremely allergic to anything that I am not willing to give up, such as a pet that I've taken on the responsibility to care for, that I will get allergy shots as well.

[Res Judicata]

Besides, if someone in the house has a deadly allergy to something, it is not going to be kept anywhere in the home or on the property. Have some common sense. If my pets, whom I love like my own children, were going to cause a fatal reaction to someone in my family there would be no question of what to do. Unfortunately the pet would have to go to a different loving home.

I have never in my life heard of allergies to pets being deadly enough to kill people, although it is possible to have anaphlylatic responses to anything, such a reaction is very rare, and occurs mostly with foods, insect stings, medicines, and horse serum (used in tetanus shots). See a pattern here? Most of these things are items that actually enter the body and end up in the blood stream, not that are inhaled or touched. Inhalation anaphylaxis is a very rare form of a very rare reaction, and the vast majority of touch-induced anaphylaxis is due to peanuts and tree nuts because of the oil. The mere smell of it can also put some allergic people into shock. I doubt very much that in the highly unlikely event that someone is deadly allergic to rabbit urine that putting the rabbit in any area that could be accessed by the severely allergic person (which would include the backyard or the garage) would solve the problem.

[lmarieaa]

I agree, you should find your guinea pigs a new home. Keeping them the way you are now is very unhealthy and dangerous. If you have allergies that are so unbearable because of your guinea pigs, thus forcing you to put them in such a bad circumstance outside then they really need a new indoor home. I think its selfish to keep the pigs like that rather than finding them a permanent indoor home because your merely keeping them for your interest only (which still makes no sense because apparently they are toxic for your allergies) and the interests of the animals have been thrown out.

[hueyeats]

I think if OP insists on keeping them outside, OP would be more humane to re-home your pigs.

I do not think it would be fun for them (piggies) when they have to live in constant fear of being food to that cat or some other animals. I do not think as a human you would enjoy living in constant fear of losing your life (eg. when you live in a crime filled neighbourhood where you run the chances of being shot at)... your piggies won't enjoy that too (even if they have unlimited supplies of food; without life & safty, what is the use of food?).

Re-homing would also be more humane of a treatment to your dog & your neighbour's cat (so you do not have to spray at it or leave your dog to freeze; which I am also sure that your poor piggies are freezing too as they like human temperature zones).

Yeah, rehome your pigs if you cannot have them inhouse... best option.

[5guinea5pig5]

Why would you keep them if you're allergic to them? How did they get free time? I just don't get how members of this forums after being on it and knowing what we're like keep them outside! Personally, I think that they are just trying to cause trouble because they know that we don't like keeping our guinea pigs outside 24/7. If you loved them then you'd know what's best for them and know that that means give them a nice comfty home where they can be love all the time.

[hueyeats]

Originally Posted by tantrixfafa

Hear hear! to aqh88.



Now would you call a mother who takes a toddler in the car with her a bad mother? Technically she is doing the same. But no one would fall all over her for doing so.

No she is not technically doing the same.
Now a mom who would "house" the toddler in a car (without her too living in it like in an RV)... that person for the most part would just be asking for "jail-time" big time!

BUT
if you the pig parent would camp OUTSIDE with your pig... then I would see it as an equal of human's insight into a pig brains that they actually enjoy living outside like you do.

I do think all should be fair for both humans & their pets they chose to have.

NOT
because I live inside, I could still justify housing a piggie out as just as comfy when I am living inside comfortably! That is NOT practicing what you yourself preach!

[Caviekisses]

I feel stupid for asking this but... Have you tried giving them a bath? Also, if you have Asthma the last bedding you would want to use is Carefresh. Something like Cell-Sorb or Yesterday's News would be much better... Works great and also absorbs odors very well.

[deborahtucker]

This is why I got my girls. Their previous owner was allergic. They are spoiled rotten. Currently expanding to 3x7 c&c