KellyMichelle
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- Nov 13, 2004
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I found some old guinea pig books, and i was just wondering what they considered as a good cage size...what's sad and makes me feel bad for my first guinea pig, because i assumed that the books knew what was best...
here's what i found:
"before you go to buy a guinea pig, you will need to get a hutch. a wooden rabbit hutch would be best."
but in the picture, the hutch is only twice as long as the guinea pig
"Each cavy should have at least two square feet or room to run in, the more space, the better."
In this picture he's in an aquarium...now i know i've heard that this isn't healthy!
In the third book, I think it might be the closest to the current standards. It requires something 20" high, 24 inches wide, and 48" long. If you have a 2x3 grid cage, at 14" a grid, the it would be 28" x 42", and 14" high.
I understand that people who write these books had the best of intentions, but how lucky are guinea pigs that now people are becoming informed! I just wanted to point this out, because if people read the books and go out and get, or build a cage, to these measurments, they have no idea that it could be much better! My question really is though, how do you get the word out to a wider spectrum of pet owners, so they know too? Because they aren't mean or bad owners, they just have the wrong sources.
Hmmm, someone should write their own book!
Kelly
here's what i found:
"before you go to buy a guinea pig, you will need to get a hutch. a wooden rabbit hutch would be best."
but in the picture, the hutch is only twice as long as the guinea pig
"Each cavy should have at least two square feet or room to run in, the more space, the better."
In this picture he's in an aquarium...now i know i've heard that this isn't healthy!
In the third book, I think it might be the closest to the current standards. It requires something 20" high, 24 inches wide, and 48" long. If you have a 2x3 grid cage, at 14" a grid, the it would be 28" x 42", and 14" high.
I understand that people who write these books had the best of intentions, but how lucky are guinea pigs that now people are becoming informed! I just wanted to point this out, because if people read the books and go out and get, or build a cage, to these measurments, they have no idea that it could be much better! My question really is though, how do you get the word out to a wider spectrum of pet owners, so they know too? Because they aren't mean or bad owners, they just have the wrong sources.
Hmmm, someone should write their own book!
Kelly
