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[CuteButShyPig]

My guinea pig Georgie is 5, like I said in other postes, and I am making her a C&C kind of cage. My question is if I make a ramp will she ever use it? She is so old and chubby I don't know if she would know how.

 

[dagwellismypigy]

If you put her food and veggies up there she will get it really quick. Leave a small dish of pellets on the bottom floor for her just in case.

 

[Rachy1412]

My 6yr old female never ever uses the ramp no matter how much vegi's I put upstairs.. however she is very lazy!!

 

[CuteButShyPig]

yeah mine is a very lazy piggy also. But I'll try what you suggested Dagwell and hopefully she will catch on. Thanks!

 

[CuteButShyPig]

Also because she has been in a store bought cage all her life do you think she will run around in a C & C cage? She doesn't run at all, not even for floor time.

 

[CuteButShyPig]

This is her my little fatty.

 

[Slap Maxwell]

I am sure despite her old age, a C&C would be wonderful to her. Even if she dosn't run around.

 

[CuteButShyPig]

ok I was going to make one anyways, but i was just wondering if she would. Hopefully she will. I am also planning on getting a younger guinea pig for her as a friend eventualy also.

 

[Teria]

It's never too late to make a bigger cage. I'm sure she will love it.

 

[TheQueen]

Well, if she's lazy like my pig is, and doesn't run around like my pig does, I know that if you put a pigloo or hidey house at the top, and don't put one in the bottom, she might use the ramp. My pig spends a lot of her time in the pigloo, so if I put it at the top, she would go up a ramp to get it. Good luck!

 

[CuteButShyPig]

Well the problem is she is so used to us she never uses her hidey house anymore (it's still in there) shes always veggin out in a corner.

 

[carrotflavour]

Both mine use the ramp i gave them. but you need to give them a reason to go up. My ramp goes up to a little 1x2 with a tent for hiding and lots of hay. They both love sleeping there, especially my old one.

 

[carrotflavour]

I'm sure shes not as lazy as you think.

My old pig had spent a year and a half in a tiny hutch at his old owners. He got food and company and such but was used to a tiny space and sleeping all the time (cos there was nothing else to do I guess). After a few weeks of having him in a bigger cage (but not that big, he now has a c+c cage) and regular floor time he livened up. He still sleeps a lot, but he does move around a lot more then when I first got him.

 

[CuteButShyPig]

thats true, I hope that happens with Georgie. Even if she doesn't move as much as I hope when i make the cage it will still make me feel like i am making her last years great for her.