Hey everyone! I'm totally new to this forum. I have one guinea pig named Molasses and my name is Claire! I got Molasses from a lady who got a pregnant guinea pig from the petstore she lives in a 2 by 3 c&c cage with a 1 by 2 loft. I use fleece. in her cage she has several chew toys, a bell, a tube, a hut, water bottle, food bowl and hay rack. She seams really happy but she's kind of shy. Please don't tell me that I need to get another guinea pig though because we got another one from the best petstore where I live. They don't have dogs and they clean the cages everyday. They live in large cages and they take really good care of them. We took Molasses to the petstore and said we needed another girl. There were two girls at the petstore. The guy said that they were 100% sure that the guinea pig was a girl... And you probably no the story from here. Well he wasn't. We didn't find out for a while. We had to find him a new home ad once we found out we seperated the two pigs. He went to a really nice home today (but I still cried). Anyways we don't know if Molasses is pregnant tho so we aren't going to get another one until we know for sure. If she is pregnant we r gonna keep one of her sows but if she's not we r gonna wait until one comes to our humane society (I don't want to go through that whole processes again). I'm involved in 4h and I'm going to show her at some local shows! Can't wait. I've never had a guinea pig before so I just have some basic questions. What are the signs of her being pregnant? Also I live on a farm with horses and is it ok to use the same kind of hay that the horses eat for guinea pigs? Do you have to give them baths and wash their ears? If there are any other things I should know let me know!