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I can't say how impressed I am with this stuff. Yes it does cost a fortune. BUT it smells amazing and I haven't had so much as a sniffle since I started using it. I can touch it with out sneezing or itching with out taking clariton. I don't sniffle when I pass the cage. And the boys LOVE it...

I know I'm in Canada but believe it or not there's corners of Canada that very rarely see snow and when they do... chaos insues. I live in one of those little corners and tonight we're getting what for us is a blizzard (a pitance for most places, including where I grew up). There are very few...

One of my little guys was breathing abit heavily and a touch weesy this morning. He's eatting fine, no weight loss. He could just have had a nasal obstruction briefly as it cleared up within about an hour but I'd like to get it checked out. The problem? It's -10C here and it's a damp, biting...

I was at the local SPCA tonight and unfortunitely while they're very good with bunnies they don't frequently have guinea pigs. When they do they keep them in the largest pet store cages but on paper with some yesterday's news some times. Today they have an adorable wirey haired guy named but...

I have a 9 year old who picked up the most recent Stink book. It's about the problems with buying pets on an impulse, pet stores and a Guinea Pig rescue. Most impressive to me the back page refers people who want a guinea pig to Guineapig Lynx's web site! I'm very pleased if you have kids who...

I supose we can't say if you got it at a pet store it's wrong now. My local higher end pet store is now selling Mid West cages which are C&C like with a canvas liner for a bottom. The smallest one they carry is 7.8 sq feet on the interior and they get larger from there. Apparently once they get...

I was sooooo upset with the boys. They dragged their litter all out of the box last night and I woke up to a horrifically messy pen this morning. I decided to clean all thier blankets since these were a disaster and put them out in the kitchen for the morning on some towels and with their hidies...

My boys are 5 months-ish now and some what in puberty though they're starting to settle down (with eachother at least). The rescue I have fostered for has a couple older pigs (one in particular is 6) that I'm concerned may not be able to be adopted at their age. I'd be happy to take the older...

I happened to wake up in the middle of the night last night and couldn't sleep so I went down stairs. I heard an odd, rythmic snoring/grunting sound coming from the cage. It wasn't weezy or sneezy at all and very regular. I'd never heard it before so I picked up Buddy (who wasn't happy to be...

I buy all my guinea pig supplies from a store that typically only sells a few fish other wise it's a feed only shop that mostly specializes in rural supplies. Any how they had a litter of guinea pigs arrive there that someone abandoned. He figured that someone had an accidental litter and...

I searched but I can't find exactly how much calcium growing pigs need. One of mine is glutting himself on his alfalfa based pellets and I've noticed a lot of white in his urine (it's not gritty but definitely cloudy and whitish). The Vet says he's getting too much calcium in his diet which...

Winter is coming and so it's time to move the boys to a warmer spot in the house. I'm going to keep their pen that's down stairs in the living room but build a second one up in the upstairs room we use as a tv room as we spend a lot more time there in the winter once it starts to cool off. I...

My boys are 11 weeks old today. One is 1 pound 12 oz. The other's 2 lbs even (Buddy's gonna be a big boy I figure). They've each gained an ounce in the last week. Anyone know how long I should be expecting them to be growing for and what's a normal growth rate? I noticed in the last few days...

I do a lot of my shopping at the asian markets local to me as their produce is MUCH more affordable. I'm curious about things like Bok Choy and Watercress Sprouts and if anyone knows what their nutritional value is for the cavies? My instinct is that the Bok Choy would fall in some where between...

My boys are 10 weeks old now and have a 2 x 4 ish pen that they live in with two dishes two pigaloos + a box, a towel tent and a tube... so lots of hidey spaces. Any how every night they do what is essentially playing tag, they chase eachother in laps around the pen the outside edge of the...

So Buddy and Baby came home on Friday to a lovely 2 x 4 cage with three hidey holes and a nice kitchen area on a nice soft fleece and I realized within a few hours that this wasn't going to work. Two things became readily apparent - my piggies like to pee in thier houses and they like to eat in...

I've got my two boys now (pictures to come) they're 9 weeks old but already huge and seem to be pretty happy with their pen. They're playing around happily and enjoy lap time a lot but they have no idea what to so with floor time. They just sit there stunned and then hide or if I'm sitting on...

I've noticed there are a LOT of UTIs in the piggy population. What can be done to prevent them?

My daughter and I are getting ready to adopt our first pigs very soon. We've started construction on it's pen and the first level is done, second is coming soon. Thanks to you all I've learned about fleece and we're definitely going to go that route to avoid too much muss and dust from invading...