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Introducing myself and my little pig

danitxo

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Hello everyone,
We are a couple from spain and after some months reading in this forum we want to introduce ourselves and our guinea pig named Buffy, a small and lovely animal.

A few months ago we were asked to take care of a guinea pig for a week. When we went to pick up the animal it was giving birth 3 pups, so we took home all of them. Finally 2 of them found a home and we made a place for the third one and constructed a cage for it.

It was very small compared with the other 2 pups but Buffy is growing up healthy.
Here are some pics of Buffy and a funny video


[video=youtube;ij3sqVzPEFk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij3sqVzPEFk[/video]


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Welcome to the forum. Glad you found us and researched before getting your guinea pig. I think it really helps owner and piggie get off on the right foot! Buffy is lovely!
 

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Thank you!
Yes, it really helped us a lot reading information in forums to give the animal a right cares. We knew almost nothing about guinea pigs in that moment so we had to find a lot of information and we are still trying to know more things about them.
 

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Buffy is so cute! I love the video of her doing popcorns. She must be so happy, to be popcorning so much! This forum is an amazing source of information.
 

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Pretty pig, she has a cute nose :)
 

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It's been weeks i don´t see her doing that kind of popcorning, now is more like standard popcorning. Probably its getting too big to do that, but she is still funny. :)
 

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It's been weeks i don´t see her doing that kind of popcorning, now is more like standard popcorning. Probably its getting too big to do that, but she is still funny. :)

Alot of them grow out of popcorning, but not necessarily totally.
My big pig Percy (4lbs) still popcorns now and again :D
 

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Very cute pig! Welcome to the forums. :D
 

danitxo

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Alot of them grow out of popcorning, but not necessarily totally.
My big pig Percy (4lbs) still popcorns now and again :D
Good to know. I hope she will popcorn for a long time. I bet she will do it, she is so nervous :D
 

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I just modified her cage. It was made with a tv table with wheels that i didn´t use. It´s easy to clean.

It´s not too big but the piggie go out of her cage whenever she want. She spend more time in a blanket in the living room.

I hope you like.

[video=youtube_share;IhhMAJ9KVds]https://youtu.be/IhhMAJ9KVds[/video]
 

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I commend you on your clever cage idea. Honestly, it would be awesome for a syrian hamster. I would love that for my syrian.
But it is much too small for a guinea pig. Much too small. With that corner house she doesn't even have a clear open space to run around.
If she was free roam ALL day and only went in there to eat and sleep at night, then maybe.
 

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She is free ALL day
 

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Welcome. Cute piggie . I would cover the wire door while the it's open regardless if she uses tunnel to go up and down because could get a little paw stuck if for whatever reason she doesn't use the tunnel.
 

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In the beginning, i had the wire door covered but there was a problem. Buffy was always hiding under the door and pissing all over there. Now that i moved the cage to the kitchen it wouldn´t be a big problem if she pee there, i could try covering it again. Forunatly she has fear of walking in the wire and always wait till i put the tunel. That´s how it was before.
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