arionat799
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Cavy Slave
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Hey guys!! I'm not exactly a newbie...but my piggie is!! Yesterday I adopted an 8 month old tricolor (black, white, and brown) sow from a girl who needed to re-home her. The ride was about an hour long, but well worth it! I built her a 2x3 C&C cage-it was going to be 2x4, but it turned out to be a little to big for my room-and bought her Oxbow Cavy Cuisine pellets and Oxbow Western Timothy Hay. We picked her up in a carrier that I bought from my local pet store with a folded towel inside (for comfort) and I brought hay. Her (old) owner gave me some of her hay and pellets and I've been giving her a mix of her normal hay and the new hay, but I thought the (once again: Old) owner said that the pellets were rabbit pellets so I gave her half and half the first day but today I just gave her the Cavy Cuisine and she seemed to love it! She dug in the second I poured the food in! She is also very sweet. She even let me pet her yesterday! And she doesn't run when I put my hand in the cage! Today I went to pick her up and she willingly let me hold her on my lap and purred as I gently pet her and talked to her in a hushed tone. She seems to be very happy and healthy, I gave her lettuce, baby carrots, and-what i thought was cilantro-parsley. So far, her favorite is the lettuce. I love her already and since I know you all love pigtures,so here you go!
When I first brought her home I forgot you had to wash the fleece so I left her in the carrier but I opened it and set the lid on the top of the opening to the litter box.
This was when she first came out and sniffed around her litter box. At the time I had Carefresh in it, but after realizing how much it would cost (I used about half the bag just filling it once) to keep using it I put wood pellets in instead. I sprinkled some Carefresh on top just because it looks nicer. (matches the cage)
I let her out for some floor time while the fleece dried. I used a playpen that I bought from my local pet store to block her off from going under my bed and the grid box for where the playpen didn't reach. At first she was very partial to her litter box, then she came out on the towel to eat some hay. (By the way, her floor space was bigger than the litter box and the towel, she just stayed in that one area.)
Ginger eating some hay.
Gingy's fave food: Letuce!!! Lol you may also notice that this is my new profile pic...
When I first brought her home I forgot you had to wash the fleece so I left her in the carrier but I opened it and set the lid on the top of the opening to the litter box.
This was when she first came out and sniffed around her litter box. At the time I had Carefresh in it, but after realizing how much it would cost (I used about half the bag just filling it once) to keep using it I put wood pellets in instead. I sprinkled some Carefresh on top just because it looks nicer. (matches the cage)
I let her out for some floor time while the fleece dried. I used a playpen that I bought from my local pet store to block her off from going under my bed and the grid box for where the playpen didn't reach. At first she was very partial to her litter box, then she came out on the towel to eat some hay. (By the way, her floor space was bigger than the litter box and the towel, she just stayed in that one area.)
Ginger eating some hay.
Gingy's fave food: Letuce!!! Lol you may also notice that this is my new profile pic...
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