#newguineapigowner

pls help my guinea pig choco keeps sleeping alone in a corner all puffed up. his cheeks also look abnormally puffy, but it’s just the fur. he sometimes makes a wheeking noise but it’s not very loud. he eats and drinks normally so i’m not sure what to do. is he sick? if i can’t take him to a vet...

Hello everyone. I have a quick question. I have two boars—how often does their cage need to be cleaned? It’s 63 by 23 inches. Thanks!

Hello, My boars and named Juju and Goliath. I am aware of the meaning of Juju but he is good Juju. Plus, it suits him. Anyway, I was wondering if it’s normal for the room with the boar’s cage to smell a bit “farm-animaly”—per my mother

hello i’ve had my female guinea pig for over a week now. she was doing fine for the first 4 days, then i noticed she was scratching a lot. we went to the vet with her yesterday, but they said they can’t do a checkup. i told them about what i saw on her fur which was some white smal bugs on the...

hello, i’ve got my first ever guinea pig (she’s a female) and she’s only 13 weeks old. i have a c&c cage for her and when i brant her home she ran straight to her hide house, i woke up this morning and she’s still in there... i took her out to check if she was ok, she’s very friendly and purred...

My boyfriend and I got two New Guinea pigs from petsmart. Tupac we had for a couple weeks and didn’t notice any health changes until we got Biggie just a couple of days ago. My boyfriend is saying biggie has been sneezing a lot, and now I’m noticing that Tupac is sneezing here and there. Should...

Hello Everyone! I live in NYC and found a lil piglet in the park and because of the pandemic still keeping things closed here and the park staff/ 311 not having a lot of information to get her to a safe place - I decided to take her in as a foster and potential child. I bought her a cage (that...

My boyfriend and I bought a guinea pig a couple weeks ago. We decided to get him a new friend today. Tupac is the one we had for a couple of weeks and is 1 and Biggie, the one we got today, is a little younger. They were introduced and Tupac immediately starting mounting him. We eventually put...

Hey everyone! I have two piggies. One is about 3 months and the other is about 5. They were hesitate to like each other at first but are now the best of friends. They do everything together. I got the 3 month old first and didn’t get the second until after she was off of her medicine because I...

I regularly look at my long-haired guinea pigs coat, due to grooming them everyday and have recently come across these... I am a new guinea Piggie owner and so am very concerned and worried.... Can anybody help?

Hello, I’m really new to this forum and owning a guinea pig. No one in my family has had one before so yeah aha. Anyways not so sure this is the right category but it’s kind of health , because I don’t want a toy to be dangerous for my guinea pig . I found a toy that is soft and there is no...

Hello! I have a question, so I got my guinea pigs about a week ago and their names are Luna and Penelope. Luna has started sniffing me and all trying to get used to my scent. They both are nice guinea pigs. Recently Luna has been sniffing and nibbling my finger. I move it away usually before she...