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  1. Heather Ost

    Hedgehog help!

    Okay so I'm totally jumping the gun here but please hear me out. I'm trying to rescue a hedgehog but I've never owned one before and I need to do some homework. However if I learned ANYTHING from owning guinea pigs, it's that Google is not a trustworthy resource but you guys are! Does anyone...
  2. Heather Ost

    Behavior Rumblestrutting AND popcorning

    Ever since I introduced my boars, back in June, they've gotten along pretty well. However, they rumblestrut a LOT. I know that this is normal boar behavior but I'm confused because my boys will also popcorn while chasing each other around and rumblestrutting. Is this part of the rumblestrutting...
  3. Heather Ost

    Chat Guinea pigs and mental health

    I suppose this thread could include all pets but my guinea pigs help me more than my cat does so I'm going to talk about them. lol I have depression, anxiety, and ADHD. I always take on responsibilities without taking my depression/ADHD into account because sometimes I view the consequences of...
  4. Heather Ost

    General Spot cleaning and Skittish piggies

    Spot cleaning is difficult for me because for now I'm using over-sized fleece, which makes it easy-ish to vacuum the little poops but not to sweep them. I have some correct-sized fleece but it's not being held down by anything just yet so vacuuming it and sweeping it is equally difficult...
  5. Heather Ost

    Chewing Is Chicken Wire Safe?

    I'm tired of my guinea pigs living in my room, it has so many cons. But unfortunately I don't trust my cat around the cage. My boyfriend wants to rebuild the cage and wrap (????) chicken wire around the grids. Okay to be honest I'm not entirely sure what he has planned but he wants to make sure...
  6. Heather Ost

    Pigsitting Friend is Pigsitting for two nights

    Instead of coming over and feeding them, she wants to keep them at her house. Unfortunately the only cage that's good for travel* is smaller than the requirement for 2 pigs but I'm hoping for 2 nights they'll be fine. She has a 5 year old so I'm going to stress to him that guinea pigs explore...
  7. Heather Ost

    Herbs Is peppermint essence okay?

    My apartment has a really bad spider problem and in the ant we have a horrendous ant problem. Last summer I tried all of the natural remedies I could find to get rid of the ants and eventually had to poison them, which was still tricky. This year I've found the first ant exploring my living...
  8. Heather Ost

    Storage Areas Water Bottles?

    I'm already on my second bottle because the first bottle started leaking after a few days. This bottle has started to leak also and now I want to tear my hair out. Should I just get a sturdy ceramic or glass bowl to let them drink out of and toss the bottles altogether?
  9. Heather Ost

    Behavior I got bit

    So I got Hamphrey on Sunday and since getting him I have started holding him and Daydoh (separately during the quarantine period) for a few minutes. Though I've had Daydoh longer, Hamphrey seemed to be the most tame, but still scared. Today as I was picking Hamphrey up to put him back in his...
  10. Heather Ost

    Nutrition Please help me figure out the menu

    So my boar is roughly 2 months old. He has a constant supply of Timothy Hay and I give him Oxbow pellets (which I checked today and are alfalfa based, is that okay since he's still young?) In the morning I give him chunks of green pepper and romaine leafs, and then in the evening I give him...
  11. Heather Ost

    Safe cleaners for the cage?

    So for right now I'm using basic bedding so I figure at the end of the week my cage floor will be due for a good scrubbing. I made a soap by soaking lemon peels in vinegar for two weeks. It's really effective cleaning practically everything. But will it be too harsh for my boar? I plan on...
  12. Heather Ost

    Bonding Things are better!

    Sorry for triggering an argument yesterday everyone but I wanted to come back and let the people who help me know that things are better today :) When I came home the Vitamin C tablet had been eaten and my boar, Daydoh, had moved from his spot and eaten the broccoli I left behind for him. By the...
  13. Heather Ost

    Bonding I'm a new and worried parent of a boar!

    So I just got a baby boar yesterday, I'm not sure how young he is, I should have asked, but he was the youngest in the store. (I tried to adopt but no offers in my area currently). I thought I did my research but now I'm worried! Since I brought my baby home and put him in his cage he hasn't...
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