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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2013
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- Joined
- Feb 28, 2013
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- 10
Hi,
I have been reading this forum alot, but this is my first post. This morning I was cleaning the cage out, and had set my 3 boys into a cardboard box with hay while I changed fleece. I was going back and forth to rooms and - not thinking anything about it, tossed an empty toilet paper roll in the box with them. My thinking was that if they didn't chew on the hay they chould chew that alot easier than the cardboard box they were in.
I know I have read that people stuff toilet paper rolls with hay and put them in their cages. I've personally never done that and don't know if people put them in the cages unstuffed...
I heard alot of squeaking going on which was unusual in that small box. I was only not looking for maybe a minute or two while I was cleaning. My biggest boy had stuffed his head INSIDE the toilet paper roll. He was halfway through it. It was so tight on him his body looked as if it had doubled it's size to make up for it.
I ripped the end and pulled it off quickly. Thankfully he is fine, but it scared the heck outta me.
I have no idea if anyone has had this happen before but it was enough to make me post this thread just to warn people that it could possibly happen. If I had ignored the squeaks I am sure he would have died. It was actually my other two pigs squeaking.
Very scary. Not sure WHY he was trying to go IN it, but if there was hay inside it and not all around them, I'm sure the others would have tried to go in it as well.
If it helps others, my guinea pigs are young adults and this happened to the biggest one. I would say he is almost fully grown.
Well, I definately won't be doing that again.
I have been reading this forum alot, but this is my first post. This morning I was cleaning the cage out, and had set my 3 boys into a cardboard box with hay while I changed fleece. I was going back and forth to rooms and - not thinking anything about it, tossed an empty toilet paper roll in the box with them. My thinking was that if they didn't chew on the hay they chould chew that alot easier than the cardboard box they were in.
I know I have read that people stuff toilet paper rolls with hay and put them in their cages. I've personally never done that and don't know if people put them in the cages unstuffed...
I heard alot of squeaking going on which was unusual in that small box. I was only not looking for maybe a minute or two while I was cleaning. My biggest boy had stuffed his head INSIDE the toilet paper roll. He was halfway through it. It was so tight on him his body looked as if it had doubled it's size to make up for it.
I ripped the end and pulled it off quickly. Thankfully he is fine, but it scared the heck outta me.
I have no idea if anyone has had this happen before but it was enough to make me post this thread just to warn people that it could possibly happen. If I had ignored the squeaks I am sure he would have died. It was actually my other two pigs squeaking.
Very scary. Not sure WHY he was trying to go IN it, but if there was hay inside it and not all around them, I'm sure the others would have tried to go in it as well.
If it helps others, my guinea pigs are young adults and this happened to the biggest one. I would say he is almost fully grown.
Well, I definately won't be doing that again.
