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Thank you. I'm at the vets again this week.

Hey am not sure if this is the right place but I’ve just recently got two guinea pigs yesterday there in my room,in the mornings when I go downstairs it’s cold so I turn the heating on I do have a radiator cover in my room am so unsure what to do if to have a window open and the heating on in my...

My piggies live in my purpose built shed. It has stable doors as well as internal mesh doors so that the main doors can still be left open and they are still protected inside. The shed is insulated. One big question - is your shed able to be heated? My shed is not heated. Originally they...

Thank you. I appreciate the advice. I will set up a heater to keep her warm. It's been currently dropping to 13C overnight, not quite winter yet. The temperature makes me a little anxious.

I have the wire/cloth tunnels which I soak in hot water & soap. I scrub the inside with a scrub brush. I then rinse many times and then I hang it over the shower head to drip dry but in warm weather I let them drip dry outdoors. I have 4 of them so I can switch out a clean one right away when I...

Hi You need to put some towel or fleece blanket down onto the ground; especially the patio area. Also make sure that the top is cat and fox safe and peg a towel or sheet over half of the run top to provide a shady area (keep in mind that the sun is moving). Please make sure that you are around...

:agr: Completely My four live in enclosures in my shed. As they are outdoor pigs, they only get run time in the summer months. For the winter they are in their enclosures 24/7 late autumn until late spring. (There used to be space for a playpen on the shed floor but when Wilbur and Hugo...

This guide will also help you - Cold Weather Care for Indoor and Outdoor Guinea Pigs It’s great you are thinking about winter now though - always best to be prepared. Do you also have thermal hutch covers? Silver foil insulation can also be stapled to the hutch walls (on the outside). You...

Hi and welcome The dream of a large outside enclosure has to be really carefully thought through because while it looks catching, it does have lots of snags and frankly takes lots of daily work (usually more than one person) to keep it running and to maintain it. Faszination Meerschweinchen...

1 Outdoor guinea pigs living in a hutch - How to prepare your hutch for Winter - Insulation - Daily care 2 Outdoor guinea pigs living in a shed/garage 3 All outdoor guinea pigs 4 Indoor guinea pigs - Preparing your cage - Preparing the room 1 Outdoor guinea pigs living in a hutch How to...

Hi, I have moved mine from inside to outside a couple times. It would be best to do it on a warm day, so the change in temperature is not too much. If it will be cooler it would be best to sit with them in a cooler room to help regulate the temperature change before completely moving them...

You don’t need to have a shed but it does make things a bit easier - offers wind and rain protection plus means it would be easier for you to spend time with them, clean them out. Yes the shed would need a window. Either way (inside a shed or not), their bedding needs to be lots of hay...

Hi, My sister got two male guinea pigs a few years back as well as 3 enclosures, a run on the grass and a hutch and indoor run inside a shed we built for them. All was okay until they stayed at a ‘Guinea pig Hotel’ whilst we were away on holiday and were too close to female guinea pigs. They...

It would be a good idea for you to get a thermometer you can attach to the cage to enable you to ensure they are being kept in a comfortable environment. If they are cold right now, then fill their hides or cardboard boxes with hay so they can snuggle into it. Cover part of their cage with a...

Guess that's what I get for trusting google on frost dates ... though I shouldn't be surprised by weather not following averages - we had a freeze in late May last year here. The general climate information still stands (Köppen-Geiger or Trewartha climate classifications/maps) For example, I...

Hi, guinea pigs can live outside all year round but it’s a lot of hard work and they wouldn’t be able to go out until May time when night time temperatures are around 15 degrees and we’re no longer having night frosts. The hutch would need to be insulated and have a wind / rain cover over the...

:wel: Well done for taking them in. You are right, a 5 foot bluebell is not big enough for 4. For 4 piggies you ideally need a 7 foot hutch on a single level which is not something that is commercially available - you’d have to have one custom made. The minimum for 4 piggies is a 6 foot...

:wel: A very important factor is that it is now starting to get late in the year to bring new piggies outside if they have only been used to living indoors until now. Normally, where there is an intention for them to stay out year round, they would have come out at the beginning of summer so...

We keep ours indoors, it means that we can just passively include them in our daily lives rather than having to make a specific effort to visit them. It does cause issues with allergies, however - we're planning to move them into an alcove with an extractor to try and tackle that. Even with...