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Recently Nala has started to sit on her wooden house and chew the bars, its not much problem (unless she does it at night!) but I noticed Sandy (1 of her daughters) starting to copy her earlier..really dont want her 3 daughters doing it aswell!
Is there any reason why she may be doing it? Would a chew block help?
Any advice appreciated.
 
my bertie does this. :( i don't know how to help it. you could try giving her a chew block? :-\ i think there is some sort of spray you can put on the bars that you can get from p@h, but i wouldn't like to put chemicals on there really, it might help though, it's supposed to make it taste really bad, i'm just putting up with it.
 
now if she was a hamster i would understand ::)

see hamsters do it if the cage is to small it could be the same with guinea pigs

does nala have alot of floor time?
it could be shes just bored

i'am sorry i cant be more help :( good luck O0
 
lovely-piggys1 said:
now if she was a hamster i would understand ::)

see hamsters do it if the cage is to small it could be the same with guinea pigs

does nala have alot of floor time?
it could be shes just bored

i'am sorry i cant be more help :( good luck O0
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hiya bertie has LOADS of space and still does it he has loads of floor time and i get him out in the run and stuff. i thought it was because he's bored, but he's also got toys too, i don't know?
 
thats got me i got no more ideas :-\

could it be a pharse shes going through? :smitten:
 
lovely-piggys1 said:
thats got me i got no more ideas :-\

could it be a pharse shes going through? :smitten:
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i'm so sorry, i don't want to be mean or anything, i hope i haven't offended you. :-\ :'(
 
you havent everything alright O0 ;D

i see this in hamsters not guinea pigs

see all mine dont do this just running through the iedas O0 O0

debs how old are the mini piggys now?
 
I have had piggies do it, I think they're just hoping to get lucky really, either something extra to eat, come out of the cage again or get at the piggy the other side teasing him! They usually get fed up doing it after a while if nothing happens but it can be really annoying. My Bully has started doing it because I began to open his 'front' door to let him out of his cage on his own like the others, so he could go in and out when he wanted to, but of course now when I shut that door, he chews on it to get it opened again! Its definately a phase which wears off after a while.
 
From my experience, boars have done this when they can smell a girly... :-\
 
She may be bored, and the cage is a bit too crowded right this minute but its only a few weeks till they'll all be moved!
The girls are 3 and a half wheeks old now :)
 
keep us updated debs

the time flys by good luck O0 :smitten: :smitten:
 
It could be stress or some pigs do it to grind down their teeth. Btw that's exactly what I did, i biggie-tied a chew block to the spot where my pigs were chewing and it works fantastically! O0
 
This is getting beyond a joke now. Uusally she chew for a bit then stop, then if she starts again I tap the cage and thats it shes stopped. This is not too bad at 4am as I can usually get back to sleep.
However, this morning is a different story. She has chewed the bar constantly (well on and off with me stopping her in between) constantly for the past 45minutes! This has resulted in me getting VERY angry as I've only had about 3hours sleep, my Dad has been woken up because of me getting up and down to bang the cage, and hes now told me I've got to get rid of them.
All this because Nala wants to chew some bars!
What the hell can I do to stop her?!
I want to move her into my Zoozone, but Simba & Kiara are in it and I cant put them in with the babies.
I've got to do something, and quick. I know Dad will make me get rid of them otherwise. Hes had enough of his sleep being distubed, and to be honest so have I!
 
awwwww debs i feel sorry for you hun ((((((((((( hugs))))))))))))

have you tried putting a cover over the cage at night i do this my self just to quite the bubs down it works so far might be worth a try to see if it will calm her down

good luck debs O0 O0
 
I cant really as theres another cage on top of it..plius wouldnt thye just pull it into the cage?
 
ahhh little madam ;D

couldnt you put her in the zoozone with bubs then put the other 2 where mums even if it just for a night then every one can get some sleep :-\
 
I might try and put all 3 babies in the Zoozone, then put Nala, Kiara & Simba together in the barred cage...ok it means Nala's still in a barred cage but maybe shes chewing them because shes stressed from the babies? Shes currently chasing them round the cage...
 
squeak knocks them out of the way when shes had enough they are only 6days now :smitten: :smitten:

bet its getting close to split boys now?

i would give it a try the only thing she can do is carry on chewing the bars it could be shes had enough of the bubs already bless her :smitten: :smitten:
 
All 3 are girls! And they're about 5weeks old, think your getting me mixed up...if they were boys they would of had to be split up 2weeks ago! hehe
 
haha! Well I thought I had 2 boys, 1 girl but thry turned out to be 3 girls :D
 
lol
i thought the other way i really thought i had 2 girls think i got it wrong ::) ;D :D
 
if your ever passing though this way you can always give me a shout O0 :smitten: :smitten:
 
Thread a small towel / face flannel through the bars and back again, yes, they probably will pull at the towel but if you thread it back through again they can't get it off?! see what I mean?, then they get fed up or cross with not being able to chew the bars or move the house that they stand on a different side. Confuse them!
 
Ive re-arrnaged the cage a bit, the food is now where she chews...will see how tonight goes.
Your idea sounds good though...but wont she just chew somewhere else?
 
then she could chew some where else :'(

i thought hamsters were bad lolol ::)
 
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