Pet Forum / Mammals / Guinea Pigs / June 2004

i looked around on the net, & what  i could tell timothy hay is the best
2 give piggies. (correct me if i'm wrong). but i started giving my buddy
timothy hay & he started getting really hyper, so i stopped the hay & he
calmed back down. my question is does timothy hay cause some ...

home from the gym only to find a small, temporary cage set up in my
living room....upon closer inspection I saw a tiny new baby pig in
there. It's an abby mix that is a reddish brown and white with nice
pink eyes.....my mom went out and got the little girl while I was

I remember reading somethign about guinea-pigs getting a crust round the
edge of their ears.
I have recently encountered bats with a similar problem, and was trying to
find information about it occuring in guinea-pigs to see hwo it compares.

Just wanted to say hello and introduce myself as a new reader of this
forum. I have 2 cavies - j.t. is about 3 years old and then we had a new
arrival - suzi-cue. She is about a year old. Suzi came to us as a somewhat
neglected one from my sisters home. J.T. and Suzi seem to get ...

dose anyone ever put shredded paper in they guinea pigs cage for bedding.
Has anyone ever took they guinea pig out on a lead.
Let me no thanks
Sandy

While looking for a greeting card I was amazed at the number of
'Days' to mark just about every activity,event or condition. There
is even an 'international rat day'.....Does anyone know of a
special day for pigsters. Perhaps a day when they get to sleep

Hey Everyone. .I had to take our 1 1/2 year old boar to the vet this
morning and I thought I would share the findings.  We took him in
because of hair loss on his hind quarters.  I didn't think it was due
to itching because he could not reach this particular spot.  The vet

today, actually a little while ago, our cocoa died. She was at the
ripe old age of 7. Lately i noticed that old age was catching up to
her especially since it's been very hot lately. Every week i give
my pigs a once over on fridays. I groom them, teeth check, clip

just wondering , maybe you all can give me some insight. can guinea's
eat zucchini's?

       I have two male guinne pigs (Pudding and Woley bear) and my two
children have a fungal skin infection from all the signs( itching, constant
knawing at certain areas between the shoulders, etc). I check with several
sites to confirm the problem. I have chaecked for mites, ...

new to this group and new to guinea pigs. enjoy reading this group very
much.  i have 9 hamsters, 1 rabbit and the latest newcomer to my home is a
guinea pig which we call 'guinea pig' (at the n-th hamster we ran out of
names....)  <gp waves his hand to all>

I have recently bought 3 female guinea pigs and i have also dicovered that 2 of
them were pregnant...at first i only thought that one of them was pregnant and
to make sure i went 2 the vet and he agreed that she was in fact pregnant with
definetely 2 but maybe 3... he predicted that ...

I've got two sweet, healthy guinea pigs. Being I guess pretty typical,
their favorite thing in the world is food and this constitutes most of
their "fun." Next to food, they like going in and out of boxes, plus
chewing on them ;)

Does anyone have any experience of importing a Guinea pig into the UK?
      My fiancee in Russia and her daughter have a Guinea pig and a
tortoise who they would like to bring with them when they come over. My
reading of the documentation on the government's website tells me ...

Hia ll,
I noticed Beer limping a bit. Upon examining him i see the sole under
one of his front feet very skin colored, human skin and the other foot
seems to have a piece of dark skin loose, a sort of flap it seems. Is