Don`t they poop everywhere?

[JennG]

Too bad we could use the poop to fill "sand bags" and block water when we have floods. As much as they all poop, its got to be useful for Something.

[SugarSpice]

I lay down 2 newspapers in the same corner every time ,The rest of the floor is carpet . They never go on the carpet unless one gets kicked on there , other than that they pee and poop in the same corner every time , plus I take one grid off their cage so they can go in and out as they please . I guess Im lucky too , I have very little clean up .

[iLoveDusty]

My boys don't care where they poop!!! I just let my dogs in after them and the poop's gone in about 5 seconds! I just block off under things where I can't reach.

[homeschoolmama]

We took 20 cube squares & zip-tied them together. We put it on a vinyl tablecloth, with fleece over the top. That way they can do whatever they want, whenever they want to & all I have to do is shake all their little beans out into the garden... they make the best fertilizer I've ever seen.

[lovezpiggiz]

mine tooo
my mom hates it becasue once in a while when she is cleaning, she finds some dried up pieces of poop around the carpet.

[jdomans]

Poo doesn't bother me it would be the pee in the carpet! Anyhow my crew is let out in the kitchen. I put down an old bedspread that I have cut a bit here and there to go aorund things for a better fit. I take it out, shake it out, and wash. No big deal.
A friend of mine said, "As clean as you are, I can't believe you let the guinea pigs out in the kitchen." I thought, well I don't prepare food or eat on the floor!

[ErdTirdMans]

I have two fleece blankets for their bedding in the cage, one in their cage and one so that i can put a fresh one in. The way I do floor time is by using a few extra grids to block off areas in my room they can't go. The fleece blankets are sized perfectly for the area of my room remaining when I block everything off. So, I take the clean one and lay it on the floor, throw down the grids, take them out, and clean their cage. When i'm done, they have a short moment in their quarantine cage while I set everything back up, and presto! floor time accomplished and cage cleaned.

I'm not as good as the rest of these cavy-lovers in that my pigs don't get nearly as much floor time as they should. Generally, I only take them out once or twice a week. I'm getting better though, and their cage is huge so they're happy little girls, regardless.

Oh, and you can train them to use litter boxes. A few of the ways have already been mentioned: provide only one covered area so it's the only private place to go or fill the box with the same bedding from their cage. The former doesn't work if your guineas don't mind going right out in the open (mine aren't shy at all), and the latter doesn't work if you use fleece (which i do). The only way i could potty train them is to set up a special kitchen area in their cage and get them used to that.

[Becky cavy mad]

I let my piggies run around my living room and dining room and they hardly poop at all.

[aml1676]

I built a fence out of some spare grids so I can block off the part of the dining room they run in -- it's not a whole room, but it's about 3x the size of their cage. I put a cheap, flannel-backed, vinyl tablecloth down with a sheet on top, give them their hideys and their litterbox and hay, and they do just great! They do motor around on the carpet, but I have yet to find a stray "bean", and Rock has only peed on the carpet once. My carpet is so destroyed from the bunnies, it'll have to be replaced eventually anyway. The rabbits are just like furry termites...

[cavyinhawaii]

I have a piggy playpen I got at walmart for 10.00.
I just put newspaper down and throw it out when they go back in their house.

[Daedalus]

The few times I have taken mine out for floor time, (only had them a week) they either hold it in for the 20-30 minutes or go in the corner of my room where I have their food and some newspapers down for this purpose and go there.

[SkinnyPiggys]

I do the same exact thing! I also put one of their litter boxes in the play pen filled with hay. They usually poop everywhere but they mostly pee in their litter box.

Originally Posted by homeschoolmama

We took 20 cube squares & zip-tied them together. We put it on a vinyl tablecloth, with fleece over the top. That way they can do whatever they want, whenever they want to & all I have to do is shake all their little beans out into the garden... they make the best fertilizer I've ever seen.

[piggiepeanut]

when i get mine out to hold she'll start biting me or squeeling to let me no that she has to go, i think i got lucky? she also loves to lik me and my mom but noone else, shes so friendly!

[o0fastfilly0o]

mine poop a lot. Lol.... we have them lose in a birds cage!