WithyPig
New Member
Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2010
- Posts
- 2
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2010
- Messages
- 2
Well this is my first post to this forum and my husband and I brought home about a week ago two little girls. One a brown teddy 1 month old and the 2nd a grey and white crested who is 2 months old.
These are our first Guinea Pigs and I have to say we have a lot to learn.
We did get these two from a breeder who is well known and obviously takes good care of her Pigs(we toured the place). She was great with answering questions and encouraged us to make sure to take two home instead of one. Her Pigs were obviously healthy well socialized and happy and it was wonderful to see.
My little brown girl Snuff(short for snufalapagus) is a sweetie already, coming to the door of the cage for treats and wheeking in the morning when I make a plate of veggies for them. She allows me to pet her and lies down when I do so I'm guessing she likes it. Still a bit nervous on the lap but every time improving. Seems to be a chatterbox too.
My Grey girl on the other had we can't work out. Mind you she did go into heat this weekend (yep one week after we got her) and did the whole rumblestrutting thing around poor Snuff. We've been trying to work on a name for her letting her natural personality show through. I'm a bit scared we've got a Diva on our hands..... My husband started calling her Rain (and Raincloud when she bullies Snuff). We're trying it out to see if it fits.
She seems to be comfortable on our laps (seems to prefer my husband too) she stretches our sticking her back legs out and just lies there while we pet her. She's never wet us whilst on our laps and all in all seems a bit more timid with us in the cage. She's allowing the occasional pet now and then but seems to be nervous of our hands. She does take treats from our hand but you can see she likes it less than Snuff who has already worked out that looking cute brings treats (veggies)
We are very gentle with them and I think they will come around nicely. So far they popcorn and chase each other every evening in the cage so they seem happy(except for the drama last night with Rain rumblestrutting and Snuff kicking and running away complaining as she ran).
Any advice and comments would be welcome
These are our first Guinea Pigs and I have to say we have a lot to learn.
We did get these two from a breeder who is well known and obviously takes good care of her Pigs(we toured the place). She was great with answering questions and encouraged us to make sure to take two home instead of one. Her Pigs were obviously healthy well socialized and happy and it was wonderful to see.
My little brown girl Snuff(short for snufalapagus) is a sweetie already, coming to the door of the cage for treats and wheeking in the morning when I make a plate of veggies for them. She allows me to pet her and lies down when I do so I'm guessing she likes it. Still a bit nervous on the lap but every time improving. Seems to be a chatterbox too.
My Grey girl on the other had we can't work out. Mind you she did go into heat this weekend (yep one week after we got her) and did the whole rumblestrutting thing around poor Snuff. We've been trying to work on a name for her letting her natural personality show through. I'm a bit scared we've got a Diva on our hands..... My husband started calling her Rain (and Raincloud when she bullies Snuff). We're trying it out to see if it fits.
She seems to be comfortable on our laps (seems to prefer my husband too) she stretches our sticking her back legs out and just lies there while we pet her. She's never wet us whilst on our laps and all in all seems a bit more timid with us in the cage. She's allowing the occasional pet now and then but seems to be nervous of our hands. She does take treats from our hand but you can see she likes it less than Snuff who has already worked out that looking cute brings treats (veggies)
We are very gentle with them and I think they will come around nicely. So far they popcorn and chase each other every evening in the cage so they seem happy(except for the drama last night with Rain rumblestrutting and Snuff kicking and running away complaining as she ran).
Any advice and comments would be welcome
