shypaw
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Cavy Slave
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- May 7, 2008
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Hello,
I wanted to say hi and introduce my girls Peaches, Fifi, Hershey and Carlita. We've had them for about 10 days now. My roomate and I both bought two guinea's each, so we have four total. We've lived together for 6 years, so I don't see the herd splitting up any time soon. :cheerful: His girls are Carlita and Hershey, but all four live together in one herd, with Carlita as the leader.
We did buy them from a Pet Store before we knew better, but now that they are home I couldn't think of bringing them back there. They were crammed into two small tanks with 4 more female piggies. We made a really nice 6x2 cube home for them that has an awesome second story with a ramp. They have multiple houses that are fully edible, lot's of tubes, two water bottles and two hay bins and the softest, bird snuggly tunnel thing that they all love. These girls are loving the space they now have!
The only problem we've had so far is with Carlita. When we take them out of the cage at night for one on one time, Carlita tends to chew and nip at our clothing, fingers and sometimes arms. It's strange, she could be just sitting on out lap and we are not even touching her and she'll nudge over to our arm and nip it. None of the other girls do that, so I'm hopeing she grows out of it. She is the largest and most dominant female too. Is this normal? How can we deter her from this? We don't yell at her or anything, we just act like she did nothing wrong so she does not get scared of us.
Thank you!
-E.J. (Shypaw)
I wanted to say hi and introduce my girls Peaches, Fifi, Hershey and Carlita. We've had them for about 10 days now. My roomate and I both bought two guinea's each, so we have four total. We've lived together for 6 years, so I don't see the herd splitting up any time soon. :cheerful: His girls are Carlita and Hershey, but all four live together in one herd, with Carlita as the leader.
We did buy them from a Pet Store before we knew better, but now that they are home I couldn't think of bringing them back there. They were crammed into two small tanks with 4 more female piggies. We made a really nice 6x2 cube home for them that has an awesome second story with a ramp. They have multiple houses that are fully edible, lot's of tubes, two water bottles and two hay bins and the softest, bird snuggly tunnel thing that they all love. These girls are loving the space they now have!
The only problem we've had so far is with Carlita. When we take them out of the cage at night for one on one time, Carlita tends to chew and nip at our clothing, fingers and sometimes arms. It's strange, she could be just sitting on out lap and we are not even touching her and she'll nudge over to our arm and nip it. None of the other girls do that, so I'm hopeing she grows out of it. She is the largest and most dominant female too. Is this normal? How can we deter her from this? We don't yell at her or anything, we just act like she did nothing wrong so she does not get scared of us.
Thank you!
-E.J. (Shypaw)
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