Hi im new to this website. I've had 13 guinea pigs in the last 3 years which have all died. My first 2 Misty and Petle i got for my tenth birthday. Petle was always a strong pig, but Misty wasn't she had a brocken leg, an ear infection and a lot of other little problems. She always had a laidback, i do not care, kind of atitude. After about a year I thought i like to breed them which i now no i shouldn't have. I bought a male guinea pig and named him Milo. A couple of months later Petle had 3 babies and Misty had 3 too but 2 died. Milo was in a section of the cage by himself, another descision I regret. The babies soon grew up. I sold one of them and kept the rest. 1 was a girl called Patchy and the others where boys called Scrapy and Darwin. Everything was fine for a while until Darwin tried to climb up over his cage section into the girls side. He wasn't alone or anything he was with Milo and Scrapy. He fell of and died quickly after that. I was extremly confused and sad, then about a month later Misty died. She died during the night, she was only 2 years old. She was my favourite pig. Soon after that Petle died leaving Patchy alone. I then decided I would get rid of the boys and get her a friend. Couple of weeks later I got Lemington the best pig ever. I was about to get rid of the boys when they got into the girls side and got the girls pregnent. This was really bad because Milo and Scrapy were related to Patchy. Soon enough I had babies to deal with again. 2 from Patchy and 3 from Lemy. 2 where girls which i kept which i called Roxy and Nibbles. There where 3 boys which when they reached 4 weeks I put them in the boys side of the cage. Then suddenly Scrapy started trying to mate with them, he also started attacking Milo. Milo had huge scabs on his back and his ear was half nibbled off, it was horrible. So the next week i got rid of them all to different owners. So now it was just the 4 girls. About a month after the boys where sold Roxy and Nibbles died at only 6 months. I then began to take a bit more care of the pigs. I began to start doing a lot of research. I brang there cage up closer to the house and spent more time with then. Then Lemy got URI. My mum took her to the vet and she was prescribed on a liquid. She got better after that. Then a couple of weeks later Patchy died. I was so sad. Lemington started to get so much attention. She began to lick my finger and purr whenever i patted her. But 1 night she wouldn't really move at all, she also wouldn't eat or squeak and early in the morning she past. I was so sad so much had happened in the last few years. 13 guinea pigs had gone in 3 years. I am now going to get another guinea in about 3 weeks. I have already seen it. It is a alpaca guinea pig I think. This will be my last pig so i want to get stuff right this time. i have made a large indoor guinea pig cage for it. I also have a outside cage, since my parents siad it can't always be inside and i also have a indoor play pen for floor time. I am going to use hay in the outside cage and fleece in the inside one I have researched hours on what they eat since i think i got that wrong. Now that is my long story on cavies so far.