Exercise Need Piggy-Proofing Tips

[spiritofthepig5]

Does anybody have any piggy-proofing tips? I have a HUGE basement, the square-footage of my house and I could possibly use half for free-range. I jut need piggy-proofing tips. I have wires and non-movable wood furniture that CANNOT be chewed. I also have carpeting and my mom will NOT let it be peed and pooped on.Thanks

 

[snickers]

Is your basement like a den/living room area? The basement might be too cold for the pigs to play in, but it sounds as if your basement is a den/living area if you have carpet and furniture down there.
For the wires you can get some molded wire covers at home depot or the hardware store. They cover up the wires and blend in to the paint so its not ugly. You just have to think of safety for the pigs as baby proofing your house, just as if you had a baby that you didnt want to get into anything.
As for the carpet, you can get a shower curtain and lay that down on the carpet, that way when they do pee and poop it wont wet the carpet and its easy clean up. I have carpet, but I don't use a shower curtain, I use fleece. The pigs relate the fleece to there cage and pee and poop on the fleece. I put the fleece in a cat style bed and put that on the carpet, and kinda just time it out when I think they are going to pee. I take them and put them into the bed where the fleece is and let them do there business and sure enough they pee. Then I take them out of the bed and let them play on the carpet again. I keep doing this until floor time is over.

 

[sdpiggylvr]

Your basement might not be the best location for your pigs. Mine used to live down there but I saw they didn't like the dampness and chillier air, so I moved them up. You should consider this.
As far as the wood furniture goes, my pigs don't really tend to chew on my wood furniture. You could cover up the parts of the wood furniture with some coroplast, maybe? You could tape the seams on the inside so that there isn't any exposed tape for the pigs to ingest.
For the carpet, you can put down clear plastic shower curtain liners ($5 at Target) and cover these with towels or old sheet(s). Instead of the plastic shower curtain liner, you can get inexpensive pieces of laminate tiles and connect these in the guinea pigs' area. You can use fleece bedding over the tiles.
With the wires, just put them up high and cover any unused outlets with those little plastic inserts. Otherwise, you can cover the wires with the wire coverings here:
Good luck!