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GP's eating coroplast....

crunchygranolam

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This site has been so helpful to our family! Our GP's have been in their C&C cage for about 8 weeks now and I have a few questions, please:

1) they have nibbled away at the coroplast around their water bottle. Is that a health problem????

2) I have one whole side (short side) of the cage set aside as a litter area with two litter boxes taking up the entire side. Is it normal for them to make in other areas of the cage as well? They seem to make sort of....all over. They even move their food dish to pee and poop back there. I would rather not buy anything else for a while, so I'm hoping the answer is not to buy a heavier food dish (but I'll consider it, if that's the best thing). They do make a lot in the litter boxes, too, and, in their smaller cage, that side was the one they had chosen to use to make in, so it seems like I have the litter boxes in the right place.

Thanks so much for the help!
 
If you are using litter all on there cage it would be confusing to say you can go in the box with litter but you cant go in the big box with litter, you know? If you are using fleece you could be able to but not all piggies are made to be potty-trained.
 
Thanks for the reply! No, they only have litter in their boxes. They have bedding in the rest of the cage. I read the forum more, and realized that maybe the GP's and I just have differences of opinion about what it means to be litter-box trained....(hmm, kind of like my toddler and using the potty!)
 
What kind of litter do you have in the litter boxes?

As far as them chewing on the coroplast, you can get those binder edge covers (long thin plastic pieces, and I can't think of the exact name of them right now) and slip them on the edges of the coroplast they chew on.
 
yes you shouldn't use cat litter or something like that for guinea pigs. YOu should use kiln dried pine or aspen or carefresh NO cedar!
 
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