Pet Forum / Mammals / Guinea Pigs / July 2004

Hi.  I'm planning on getting a guinea pig, but for probably the most
selfish reason possible.  Basically, I just want a little animal to
cuddle and pet.
I currently have a rabbit, who I LOVE, and she is very sweet and we play

Interesting to note the great difference in VitC content between
red/yellow and green peppers. The red/yellow varieties contain
more than double the VitC content compared to green. Regular
inclusion in the diet should go a long way to preventing

some advice please,whats the best way 2 trim an hyper GP'S nails?

Last Thursday while I was clipping my pigs' nails, I noticed that Kassandra
left a brownish stain on the towel. I had her in a plastic bowl until she
peed, and it was all bloody, completely red! I took her to the vet that
afternoon, who gave her antibiotics (bactrimel) for 10 days. ...

I've just been home and took some photos during muck out time.  They can be
found at http://users.durge.org/~stu-stu/gps/ and are the ones labelled as
*July04.
Yours,

does anyone here find that their pigs prefer a certain type of music?

For the first week or so after Suzy's departure, Hazel really seemed to
thrive.  She had the whole, large pen to herself -- she could sleep wherever
she wanted, the food was all hers, she was getting as much (probably more)
attention as she desired.  But, last week, she too went ...

I just read the7/17/04 Thread and decided to substitute some words in the
story.  This story substantiates my 6/17/04 post.  To those of you who want
to flame me for what you perceive as insensitivity, flame on.  I'm not a
troll and I perceive this example as bad as pet abuse-the ...

My two guinea-pigs have always lived in a one level hutch but I recently
purchased a two floor hutch so they would have more room etc. The floors are
connected by a large wooden ladder.
The problem is that they get twig that there are two floors now, if we put

I'm so worried about Checkers.  She's a 30-month old guinea pig, and
has dropped from 850 to 560 grams, and continues to fall.
The situation :
basically, she's just super-skinny, still pretty peppy, but bonier and

Does anyone have a problem with eating carrots, apples, etc... and get told
off by their pig(s)? My pigs are in my office area and I was just eating
some baby carrots and they started screaming at me. I gave them a carrot
each and they shut up.

Is there one in this group?? Never seen so much crap that don't have to
do with piggies.

Hello Everyone;
I just want to ask a question about pig health that has me kinda stumped.
We have a 3 year old pig (J.T.) and we are starting to see a problem rise
in him.

My friend came to my door this morning all in a panic, telling my husband
that she things her sow is dying. She said that she's howling in pain. Does
this happen when a pig is dying?
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