Krysanthemum
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Hello, I'm new to this forum so I just wanted to introduce myself.
I am a new guinea pig owner. My family has always had cats, and my mum is a bit scared of rodents, so it never occured to me to own a guinea pig. However, now that I'm living away from home in an apartment, a cat was out of the question but I still wanted a pet for cuddles!
So four weeks ago, my fiance and I purchased a guinea pig from a pet store. Yes, I know adoption is better but I live in Australia and I'm not sure we have the same level of guinea pig support here that exists in the US.
Anyway, we purchased my little girl piggie, Cocoa, who I was told is about 5 - 6 months old. She's gorgeous! But as it turns out, we got more than we bargained for. She's pregnant, and the vet has told us that we have at least four more piggies coming within the next week.
I just wanted to say thank you for this priceless website. I too fell victim to a small pet store bought cage, and realise now this it was hideously small. I had to scour Sydney to find the right bits and pieces, and I'm pretty sure I found the last set of cubes in the southern hemisphere (they don't seem to exist out here any more!). But now Cocoa now has a much larger house to run around in.
Anyway, the question I wanted to ask was that I've read a number of guinea pig pages and they all talk about the noises that piggies make, especially when they want attention or food. Cocoa doesn't make these noises. She has a happy cooing noise when I'm petting her or when she's playing, but she doesn't ever wheek at me when she wants something. Is this normal, has anyone experienced this before? Is this perhaps part of the pregnancy, or is she just a quiet piggie? It's not sickness, she's a perfectly happy, healthy piggie.
The only thing I can think is that I had her in a smaller cage, and have just recently moved her into a 2x3 C&C cage. Perhaps she will come out of her shell, as it were, once she's used to the new home. I'm hoping the babies will be wheekers!
I am a new guinea pig owner. My family has always had cats, and my mum is a bit scared of rodents, so it never occured to me to own a guinea pig. However, now that I'm living away from home in an apartment, a cat was out of the question but I still wanted a pet for cuddles!
So four weeks ago, my fiance and I purchased a guinea pig from a pet store. Yes, I know adoption is better but I live in Australia and I'm not sure we have the same level of guinea pig support here that exists in the US.
Anyway, we purchased my little girl piggie, Cocoa, who I was told is about 5 - 6 months old. She's gorgeous! But as it turns out, we got more than we bargained for. She's pregnant, and the vet has told us that we have at least four more piggies coming within the next week.
I just wanted to say thank you for this priceless website. I too fell victim to a small pet store bought cage, and realise now this it was hideously small. I had to scour Sydney to find the right bits and pieces, and I'm pretty sure I found the last set of cubes in the southern hemisphere (they don't seem to exist out here any more!). But now Cocoa now has a much larger house to run around in.
Anyway, the question I wanted to ask was that I've read a number of guinea pig pages and they all talk about the noises that piggies make, especially when they want attention or food. Cocoa doesn't make these noises. She has a happy cooing noise when I'm petting her or when she's playing, but she doesn't ever wheek at me when she wants something. Is this normal, has anyone experienced this before? Is this perhaps part of the pregnancy, or is she just a quiet piggie? It's not sickness, she's a perfectly happy, healthy piggie.
The only thing I can think is that I had her in a smaller cage, and have just recently moved her into a 2x3 C&C cage. Perhaps she will come out of her shell, as it were, once she's used to the new home. I'm hoping the babies will be wheekers!
