Advice on Moving My Guinea Pigs Cage

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Hi everyone, I'm new here. I'm just looking for some advice about my Guinea pigs cage. It is currently situated in my bedroom/office and is a 2*4 c and c cage for my two boys (4 years old and 4 months old). I put it there because that is the room I spend all my time in, so I can talk to them more etc.
However, now the baby is getting a bit bigger, I am considering making the c and c cage bigger, but that would mean moving it to my dining room (only room I would have the extra space). But I am hardly ever in that room, so I wouldn't really see them, until night time when I go get them for a cuddle.

So my question is, would the guinea pigs benefit from the bigger cage, with less social interaction from me. Or is it better to keep them in the smaller cage and they get lots of interaction from me?

Thanks in advance!
 
Hello and welcome to the forum 😊
Oh gosh yes that’s a difficult one? Is there any chance you could perhaps have a rearrange in your office to keep them with you during the day? Perhaps you could make an L shaped cage in a corner, that works for some people. They are your pets and you want to enjoy the interaction with them throughout the day, but a larger cage would be better for two boys so it’s a balancing act
Would love to see a photo of your boys x
 
:wel: and :agr:

It is tricky one.

It would be a shame to not be able to spend as much time with them but given one of them is about to hit his teens and become hormonal, a bigger cage would be of benefit to them (with a 2x4 being the minimum size for a boar pair a 2x5 offers that little bit more space which can help when hormones are in play).
You may find you change your routine a little to spend more time in the dining room if you were move them. Also, they have each other so moving them and getting less interaction from you won’t harm them but obviously you will still want to spend as much time with them as you can

Practically, If you do decide to move and expand the cage, ensure you use soiled bedding once you’ve moved the cage to ensure it still smells of them. Expanding the cage will mean they need to reestablish their relafionship and territories and by using soiled bedding it can help them still see it as their own space, which will help keep the dominance down a bit, particularly, given the hormones
 
weepweeps said:
I think if you moved them to your dining room you would actually start going in there more. They would lure you in. 😊
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:agr: My piggies have taken over the dining room that we rarely used. They get plenty of contact and we use the room more than we ever did before.
 
Is it possible to move the piggies and the office into the dining room? Or do some work in there? I have just bonded a teenage boar and an older sow and they're in a 2x5 with loft and even then it seems as though he'll need a lot of floor time in a bigger area, he's a flying ninja popcorn maniac just now 😊
 
My piggies live in our spare bedroom that we hardly ever use but I am always popping in to see them :) I think if you move them in to your dining room, you would make the time to go in and see them :) A bigger cage would definitely benefit them especially as the 4 month old is coming up to his hormonal stage
 
I would move the piggies and your office to the dining room (if that's possible). More peace and quiet during the night for you and more room for the piggies - and you would still spend a lot of time with them.
This is my living room where the dining table stood when I first moved into my appartement - I confess to being a crazy gp lady. :whistle:
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My piggies live in my garage as my OH won't have them living in the house. The garage is attached to the house via a grotty 40 year old "Sun Lounge" which we will convert next year into a Conservatory. I spend quite a bit of time in the garage interacting with my old gals. They love it in there as they are out of the wind and rain of winter (before we moved nearly 2 years ago they lived outside) and apart from the coldest days in the winter they are in the run every day. As long as your piggies have each other and you can interact with them as much as you can they will be fine. A larger cage would benefit them as others have said.
 
I'd put the piggies and a comfy chair in the dining room and be there with them as much as possible. If your piggies have each other that's all they are worried about, humans only welcome when bearing food! I'm sure my piggies wish we had another room for them. They are in the living room wich is also the passage from the stairs/front door to the kitchen, pesky humans are always going past with no treats!
 
piggieminder said:
I'd put the piggies and a comfy chair in the dining room and be there with them as much as possible. If your piggies have each other that's all they are worried about, humans only welcome when bearing food! I'm sure my piggies wish we had another room for them. They are in the living room wich is also the passage from the stairs/front door to the kitchen, pesky humans are always going past with no treats!
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This is what I've done. I have my piggies in the dining room and felt I hardly saw them so I've moved the dining table into the living room and made a reading nook in the dining room.

This is my set up:
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Thanks everyone! I am now less worried about moving them to a different room.

I just have a couple more questions, if anyone can help me out again?
Firstly would it be better to have a 2*5 cage in a long rectangle. Or would it be just as good to have it in an l-shape, like 3*2 and 2*2 stuck together?
Secondly does anyone know anywhere that sells l-shaped absorbant fleece, incase I do opt for that shape cage? Or l-shaped correx?

Thanks so much again, you've all been so so helpful!
 
SuperNanoPig said:
Thanks everyone! I am now less worried about moving them to a different room.

I just have a couple more questions, if anyone can help me out again?
Firstly would it be better to have a 2*5 cage in a long rectangle. Or would it be just as good to have it in an l-shape, like 3*2 and 2*2 stuck together?
Secondly does anyone know anywhere that sells l-shaped absorbant fleece, incase I do opt for that shape cage? Or l-shaped correx?

Thanks so much again, you've all been so so helpful!
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That's great you've come to a decision. I think either shape would be fine. I build my own correx bases from sheets of correx, I attach pieces using gorilla duck tape in the colour of my correx. Then it can be any shape. Similarly I have fleece cage liners in 2x4 size and 2x3 size and 1x5 size and I just lay several out as needed, you could have a 2x3 and a 2x2 if you go for an L shape. I find it slightly more manageable having smaller liners rather than one huge one.
Look forward to photos of the piggies taking over the dining room if you're happy to share 😊
 
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Either is fine - it’s the floor space which matters

You just need to have two liners if you go for L shaped. One big one can make washing it harder anyway
 
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