I let my guinea pig run around my room and my room is carpet floors and my room stinks and what I’m going to do to solve this is potty train my guinea pig and get a air purifier but I don’t know how to get the fur out of the carpet, what air purifier should I get and how should I get the fur out of the carpet and make it fresh and clean again?
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Adult Guinea Pig
Hi! Guinea pigs don't potty train, they just use the bathroom whenever/wherever they are. If there is hair in your carpet, just run the vacuum over it and it should be fine.
The vacuum doesn’t get all the fur out
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Adult Guinea Pig
How long was your piggy running around for? My piggies only come out for about 30 minutes tops before they want back in their house. They don't shed that much in that short amount of time. Another thought, I use a shop vacuum with one of the attachments when cleaning the fleece off and that gets 90% of the fur off of the fleece. That could be worth a try.
h.h.lovecraft
Junior Guinea Pig
Try a lint roller, it usually always gets the fur out when all else fails.
I have a levoit pet air purifier, it is advertised to tackle pet odors, I chose it because I am allergic to animal dander and I do believe it helps. I'm not really sure why your carpet would be so smelly after such a short amount of time. Do the piggies themselves smell? How often do you clean their cage? I am just asking because I don't think guinea pigs/your carpet should really smell that bad in such a short amount of time unless there is something else going on.
You can't potty train guinea pigs, but you can do things to try to get them to go in one area. Guinea pigs use the bathroom where they eat a lot of the time, so having a litter tray filled with hay may make it more tempting for them to poo inside the tray. It needs to be large and you need to fill it with some type of absorbent bedding. It will also need to be changed more frequently than the rest of the cage if they do start using it.
I agree with the others. You will not be able to litter train your guinea pigs. As above, they may incidentally toilet where they eat but they will also do it in other areas as well
Guinea pigs should not smell that much that it makes your carpets smell just by running on them.
Is it just one or both of them that smell?
If your piggies are boars then they may have been scent marking on your carpets (although sows scent mark as well but it tends not to be as strong) - if so, then this is entirely normal and nothing you can do about it other than not let them out onto your carpets or use their own fleece blanket to run on so they scent mark that instead or a playpen. Piggies will scent mark any area which does not smell like them.
If it isn’t that they are scent marking, then I would look into what may be causing this ie a medical issue or the type of bedding being used in their cage
Guinea pigs should not smell that much that it makes your carpets smell just by running on them.
Is it just one or both of them that smell?
If your piggies are boars then they may have been scent marking on your carpets (although sows scent mark as well but it tends not to be as strong) - if so, then this is entirely normal and nothing you can do about it other than not let them out onto your carpets or use their own fleece blanket to run on so they scent mark that instead or a playpen. Piggies will scent mark any area which does not smell like them.
If it isn’t that they are scent marking, then I would look into what may be causing this ie a medical issue or the type of bedding being used in their cage
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Yes that sounds helpful, he comes out whenever he wants to, so a lot
