Behavior Guinea pig's behaviour after cleaning their cage

[julifra97]

Hello everyone, I'm a new guinea pig owner. I got 2 little females and they are so cute !! I have had them for a week now and yesterday we (my boyfriend an I) cleaned their cage. It was such an stressful expirience for them to be picked up, mostly for one of them, and after the cage was cleaned we proceeded to pick them up again and put them in their cage. Since that, they've been really scared and jumpy when they see us and we are kind of sad because we had really good progress in the last week; they weren't scared of us being around and now they are. Is this normal, or did we make a mistake?

 

[Guinea Pig Papa]

Totally normal. Guinea pigs will take time to adjust to their routine, and they will get used to this as well. They're new to their environment and naturally skittish as they're prey animals.

If you're new to being a cavy slave, perhaps this would be of benefit to you:

https://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/threads/113176-Information-for-new-guinea-pig-owners