Best clippers for extremely grumpy and intolerant guinea pig?

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I've had a rescue long hair Abyssinian, Ermintrude, for 6 months now and she is awful with haircuts. She hates being touched or petted in general and despite being very friendly this is just a personality trait of hers.

She is a very dominant guinea pig who puts up with nothing from anyone. She will not tolerate anyone even lightly touching her rear half and will flip round and jab you, scramble away, and even resort to biting if you try to cut her hair with scissors.

Giving her food actually seems to make her *more* angry 😭

Cutting her hair right now takes me 2 days and is only semi- successful (usually can only do enough to keep it mostly off the floor). I give her baths every 3 months / as needed but her fur quickly gets peed on and matted despite being kept on fleece bedding.

For reference I am experienced in guinea pig grooms with scissors since I used to do it as a job and so have successfully groomed multiple terrified guinea pigs using correct techniques and become a bit of a guinea pig whisperer... but my guinea pig is by far the worst I've ever had!

I want to try using clippers - does anyone have any recommendations?

Ideally they'd be:
- Silent / very quiet
- Soft on the fur
- Able to be used with the grain of her fur rather than against it
- affordable (around £15-30 max)
- Safe so I don't have to worry about accidentally cutting her skin
- give a very short finish, less than 4 or 5mm at most.
- mainly for use around her rear

Feel free to attach links 🙏

Thanks in advance!
 
Bill & Ted said:
I use my husbands old beard/hair trimmer, I think it’s a Remington. Any will do, far easier than scissors you can whip through the job in no time
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Me too. I've got my husband's old clippers for my Bumble (I think they're Remington too) he hates being groomed / haircuts too. Mind u afterwards he looks like he's been given a haircut with a machete. But.....it gets the job done. 😆
 
I wrote a thread on Cavy Coiffure but can't link it in on this device. Maybe someone will be kind enough to do that for me? I use pet clippers any ones will do (the link on the thread no longer works). Please be aware that The Ever Beautiful Betsy 🌈, who is the model, took around 2 years of 6 weekly trims to sit calmly for her bum trims and all over beach bod. She was so angry about being trimmed she would take 2 days to calm down and would run around with half a trim for a few days before I could finish the job properly. Son No 3 had to hold her so she didn't run off and was often on the receiving end of her teeth!

My guide to hair cutting can be found under "Daily Guides".
 
Betsy said:
I wrote a thread on Cavy Coiffure but can't link it in on this device. Maybe someone will be kind enough to do that for me? I use pet clippers any ones will do (the link on the thread no longer works). Please be aware that The Ever Beautiful Betsy 🌈, who is the model, took around 2 years of 6 weekly trims to sit calmly for her bum trims and all over beach bod. She was so angry about being trimmed she would take 2 days to calm down and would run around with half a trim for a few days before I could finish the job properly. Son No 3 had to hold her so she didn't run off and was often on the receiving end of her teeth!

My guide to hair cutting can be found under "Daily Guides".
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Poor Betsy. Bumble is bad but not as bad as Betsy was by the sounds of it.
 
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