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Cavy Slave
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- Joined
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YAY!!! Almost ready for introductions! *sigh* Penelope had her check up and we've decided it's from all the massive amounts of dust in my house (farm house) so I now have two air purifiers in there. She's doing great now!
Maybelline is still on pregnancy watch and I'm 80% certain she's not pregnant unless she's just having one baby. So... We'll see.
The last thing I'm waiting on is the grids for their floor time area, which will also be their introduction area.
I just want to be certain about a few things because I'm quite nervous.
I know I need a huge pile of veggies in the middle but what about hay. Should I have a pile of hay too? Two water bottles? Or just a pile of veggies for intros?
I have an area picked out they've never been in before.
I have two hidey house's with two exits.
I'm going to put a dab of vanilla extract on their noses before putting them together.
I know I need to keep them together unless they draw blood.
The thing I'm confused about is the bath situation.
Some say to give them a bath separately before they meet so they don't smell like themselves anymore. Some say to do a buddy bath after if they aren't getting along.
Obviously I can't do both because that would dry them out. So do you think the dab of vanilla on their noses and then a buddy bath afterwards would be fine? (I'm going to do the buddy bath regardless if they get along or not just to "seal the deal" and they also both need a butt bath anyways.)
I need to keep them together in the introduction area for around seven hours, right? Or am I totally off? Lol.
I'm going to wipe down everything really well and they'll have a new fleece liner and uhaul pad in their cage plus Penelope only had her loft for a couple days in the beginning before I took it out because it wasn't necessary so I'll put that back in and it'll be like a completely new cage to her as well. Hopefully haha.
I have one more question about the fleece though. It's about Penelope's liner that she has had since she's been here. They'll have a new one but eventually I'll want to use the one I already have again. So how do I wash it to get her smell out completely? I normally wash it with fragrance free detergent and a little dawn dish soap with a cup of vinegar. Will that be enough? I don't think it will, so what should I do? Wash it twice? Get something specific to use on it?
Thanks everyone!
Maybelline is still on pregnancy watch and I'm 80% certain she's not pregnant unless she's just having one baby. So... We'll see.
The last thing I'm waiting on is the grids for their floor time area, which will also be their introduction area.
I just want to be certain about a few things because I'm quite nervous.
I know I need a huge pile of veggies in the middle but what about hay. Should I have a pile of hay too? Two water bottles? Or just a pile of veggies for intros?
I have an area picked out they've never been in before.
I have two hidey house's with two exits.
I'm going to put a dab of vanilla extract on their noses before putting them together.
I know I need to keep them together unless they draw blood.
The thing I'm confused about is the bath situation.
Some say to give them a bath separately before they meet so they don't smell like themselves anymore. Some say to do a buddy bath after if they aren't getting along.
Obviously I can't do both because that would dry them out. So do you think the dab of vanilla on their noses and then a buddy bath afterwards would be fine? (I'm going to do the buddy bath regardless if they get along or not just to "seal the deal" and they also both need a butt bath anyways.)
I need to keep them together in the introduction area for around seven hours, right? Or am I totally off? Lol.
I'm going to wipe down everything really well and they'll have a new fleece liner and uhaul pad in their cage plus Penelope only had her loft for a couple days in the beginning before I took it out because it wasn't necessary so I'll put that back in and it'll be like a completely new cage to her as well. Hopefully haha.
I have one more question about the fleece though. It's about Penelope's liner that she has had since she's been here. They'll have a new one but eventually I'll want to use the one I already have again. So how do I wash it to get her smell out completely? I normally wash it with fragrance free detergent and a little dawn dish soap with a cup of vinegar. Will that be enough? I don't think it will, so what should I do? Wash it twice? Get something specific to use on it?
Thanks everyone!