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So over the years I have had many guinea pigs who I have seen or heard chirping in my care. I have found over the past year one of my boars is a very active chirper. It took me a while to identify who my chirper was because he always stops when I start moving and tends to be a dead of the night...

Just posting this to send my wishes that the guinea pig owners and guinea pigs located in Australia are holding up okay with this nation wide heatwave. So far my guinea pigs are none the wiser to the outside temperatures as the air-conditioner is holding up well, but I know several people in my...

Hi everyone, I have found a commercial made cage available in Australia that meets the size requirements for a pair of guinea pigs. The cage is 140cm long, 70cm deep, meaning it is 0.98sq meters. I have had a family member purchase them for their rabbits and they were very easy to put...

Hello everyone. I want to introduce Esther to you all. She came into my care on the 31st of May, I estimate her to be around 5 months old now. When she came to me she had a fungal infection in/around her right ear, and in the following weeks I found out she was also pregnant. Unfortunately her...

There are going to be hay shortages in Australia. The drought has caused a huge demand for hay from farmers in the eastern states, combined with a very dry season across most of australia and we are heading towards large hay shortages. My local fodder store (South Australia) has already been...

I have recently been able to get and try the Oxbow Garden Select adult guinea pig pellets. I have been giving them to my guinea pigs for a little over 2 weeks now and they have gotten the seal of approval from all of my guinea pigs (no white spots in their cages either, but that has never been...

My beloved boy Prince has passed away this evening. He was 6 years old.

Inder is my boy who has become a solo guinea pig with the recent passing of his cage mate Theodore. Since Theos passing Inder has not been coping well, he has always been a timid and jumpy guinea pig even at the best of times, but Theo was a very confident guinea pig who Inder used to follow the...

Today my boy Theodore passed away in his favourite sleeping spot. He had been in my care since mid April 2012, and was about 4 weeks old when he came to me. May he rest in peace.

I have recently had someone inform me of a place where you can buy C&C grids online in Australia aside from the Guinea Pigs Australia store. I thought I would share the information. Here are links to both. https://www.petshopdirect.com.au/shop/item/c-and-c-cages-grid-connector-set...

This morning I found my dear Hatsuharu had passed. Over the past few days I had been intensively feeding him and he had been back and forth to the vets. The vets conclusion was that he had a stroke, but given the nature of neurological illnesses I wanted to try feeding him and see if he improved...

I get a database error whenever I try to load any profile pages, including my own. Here is the line of error code I get: PHP Warning: mysqli_query(): (HY000/144): Table './guineapi_vbulletin/vb3_profilefield' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed in...

Recently I was having some issues with one of my guinea pig cages and moisture. I was using fleece and disposable puppy pads but it just wasn't working with one of my sow cages as I have a pig who love to play with her water bottle (not to mention how horrible I felt about the amount of rubbish...

Well it seems to be a very bad week for me but I knew this one was coming unlike the passing of Elenora. My oldest guinea pig Caramel (who was estimated to be about 7 months old when I got her, and she was pregnant) who was now over 4 years old has been in a slow decline over the past week, it...

This afternoon Elenora passed. It was sudden, she was fine this morning begging for food like usual and was her normal weight. Then this afternoon I walked passed the cage and she was gone. She was just over one year old, her birthday was the 16th of September. Her cage mates Nahla and Tamara...

Background - My boy Theodore had an abscess on his shoulder in mid 2013 when he was just over one year old, the abscess began forming three weeks after the scab fell off of the initial injury, which was caused by a small bite wound inflicted by a cage mate which I thought had healed well until a...

Background info - A month ago a woman in my area was looking to surrender a pregnant sow to a new home, she was about a year old and the woman was giving her up because they didn't have enough room. I went and picked her up and it turned out that the girl (now called Fluff) had been bred back...

A almost 4 months ago one of my boys called Theodore (currently 1 year old) had a falling out with his cage mates, so I trialed him with some different boys. Long story short I found a brilliant match for him, but that was after a few failures. During one of the failed pairings Theodore got...

Can guinea pigs eat the skin of the dragonfruit? I don't know if they could eat the flesh because of all the seeds, although they are really small so I couldn't see a guinea pig choking on them. I'm just asking because I love dragonfruit and have it growing in my backyard, but as I can't eat...

One of my male guinea pigs, Bumble is always crying at night. When I say crying, I don't mean weeking, it sounds similar but higher pitched and much more distressed. He is about 3 months old, and is house with an older male called Reece. They get along okay, and he doesn't cry that often, some...