OK I know its early but I cant be the only one who's piggys get a visit from santa paws
I like to start shopping early soo what are you getting your piggys for Christmas
So far I'm thinking fleecy tunnels, forage, maybe a couple of the large hay cubes (i got a rabbit sized one last year and cut the holes to make sure no one could get stuck) and maybe large carrot houses they did a white coconut version last year which my piggies loved!
One thing I won't be getting this year is the small animal advent calanders, piggies weren't interested last year and they probably weren't the healthiest anyway! I might get some pea flakes instead and they can have one a day
I do crimbo shopping weird I do the animals first, then children once they've gone back to school in September and then adults closer to the time
I must confess that I don’t really do Christmas for the guinea pigs on the basis that they think it’s Christmas every day.
They get new fleecy stuff and hay toys throughout the year but they get a rare treat for Christmas veggies - some fruit or a handful of spinach, stuff they don’t get often.
As you are so well organised, when you’re done with your own stuff please would you come and organise me?
I start of organised but somehow there always seems to be a mad dash the week before
these guys get new stuff year round too it's more for the kids haha but I am a bit soft with the pets I get my mils dog and fils two dogs something too
I usually give them carrot and parsnip peelings and sprouts for Christmas Dinner but I don't give them those things any other time of year and may have to bypass it this year as nugget has a sensitive tummy so sprouts would be a no I'm thinking
I don't get mine anything, in fact we don't really do Christmas presents as a family any more. Christmas is a wonderful relaxed time for me now. I send a handful of cards and avoid shopping as much as possible. After the vets bills of the last couple of years I think the piggies will get an extra handful of grass this year.
My pigs tend to like handmade stuff - their favourite last year was a cardboard box stuffed with grass that they had to break into, despite the fact that I spent I-don't-know-how-much on shop-bought hidies and other treats!
However I have also bought them a second-hand bundle of 5 fleece cosies, a new willow tunnel and a hammock, since it was only £5 on Gumtree!
We do Christmas for the piggies, and for my old Mum and the children in the family. Myself, my husband and my daughter don't usually buy gifts for each other though, just for the animals and youngsters and old folks.
I've given up buying any of the unhealthy pet shop style treats that the piggies arent keen on anyway, last year they got 2 festive fleecy tunnels, a haycube, a carrot cottage, and Jezzy floof got a new extra large corner hay tray as she was going through a phase of sleeping in the smaller ones!
Far too early for us to plan Christmas, we have a family rule there's no Christmas preparations until after piggy daddy's birthday at the end of November! Then the first weekend in December we have a family party and put the Christmas decorations up and start planning
My boys get new toys a lot, but I get them something on Christmas (they’ve only had one Christmas) like a new toy or something, I do decorate their cage too though!
Mine are always more excited about their Christmas dinner than their presents (They've inherited that from me, no doubt!)
I usually get things they can share, it'd cost a small fortune for all 11 to get their own gift lol! This year I'm thinking a few bags of readigrass or some other treat hay, usually they get grassy logs from Galens Garden so they'll probably sulk if they don't get those again bags of forage, a brussels sprout tree.
They much prefer Halloween however, when all the fancy squashes and pumpkins are for sale!
We do Pigmas at ours. They have the veg peelings for their dinner and I'll 'wrap' up bags of herby treats in paper bags for them to tear into . To be honest it isn't much different to normal enrichment activities but I make the bags up christmassy and they have their own tree and decorations too!
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bags of forage, a brussels sprout tree.
. To be honest it isn't much different to normal enrichment activities but I make the bags up christmassy and they have their own tree and decorations too!