Cherrbear71
Active Member
Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2008
- Posts
- 30
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2008
- Messages
- 30
Hello!
My name is Cherie and I am in the Baltimore area. I am a stay at home mother of a three year old. We are brand new owners of a 4 month old guinea pig...as a matter of fact we picked her up yesterday.
She is adorable! I am not sure why I waited until now to own my first guinea pig, but we should have done this a long time ago! She is dark brown and tan, with a white band around her middle. We've named her Cookie becasue she reminds me of one of those soft, creme filled cookies!lol
I have a couple of questions...1) We had her wrapped up in a towel earlier today and she started nibbling on it. SHe actually got a thread loose and I got it away from her before she could eat it. If she were to actually eat a piece of string, would it hurt her? I am thinking that can't be good for her intestines...2) She has bald spots behind her ears. Is this normal? Does this mean she might have a mite problem?
She is still a little skittish. When she is in her cage she just sits in her pigloo. She is active when we have her out. Is that normal for the first few days? Right now she is in a store bought cage, but I plan to buy a C&C cage for her as early as next week.
Thanks for reading my post, and thank you in advance for answering my questions. I've been lurking for a couple of weeks and it seems like there are a lot of really nice people here. I am looking forward to chatting with you all for years to come!
Oh, and as soon as I figure out how to post pictures of Cookie I will!
My name is Cherie and I am in the Baltimore area. I am a stay at home mother of a three year old. We are brand new owners of a 4 month old guinea pig...as a matter of fact we picked her up yesterday.
She is adorable! I am not sure why I waited until now to own my first guinea pig, but we should have done this a long time ago! She is dark brown and tan, with a white band around her middle. We've named her Cookie becasue she reminds me of one of those soft, creme filled cookies!lol
I have a couple of questions...1) We had her wrapped up in a towel earlier today and she started nibbling on it. SHe actually got a thread loose and I got it away from her before she could eat it. If she were to actually eat a piece of string, would it hurt her? I am thinking that can't be good for her intestines...2) She has bald spots behind her ears. Is this normal? Does this mean she might have a mite problem?
She is still a little skittish. When she is in her cage she just sits in her pigloo. She is active when we have her out. Is that normal for the first few days? Right now she is in a store bought cage, but I plan to buy a C&C cage for her as early as next week.
Thanks for reading my post, and thank you in advance for answering my questions. I've been lurking for a couple of weeks and it seems like there are a lot of really nice people here. I am looking forward to chatting with you all for years to come!
Oh, and as soon as I figure out how to post pictures of Cookie I will!
