Guinea Pig Pet Hates!

Status
Not open for further replies.
Jess said:
All the above but my main pet hate is the selling of metal things like hay racks and hay balls. I refuse to allow any metal in my guinea pig pens. They should be banned!
Click to expand...
Why don't you like metal hay racks:-)
 
Davey-cavy said:
Why don't you like metal hay racks:-)
Click to expand...

Reports of guinea pigs getting their teeth trapped in the metal racks and dying as can't release themselves also there was a photo of a guinea pig trapped inside a metal treat ball. I refuse to have any metal in my pens.
 
Well mine now is my obsession with checking I've tucked them up (pulled the cover down on the hutch and zipped it up!) as I did this last week in the dark - I'd already done it earlier but I needed to check! - and fell over breaking my toe! :-(

Seriously though -
how does hay get everywhere?!

Why does lily like to flatten all the hay and pee on it as soon as I put it in?!

And people telling me I don't need to worry about them being outside in winter cause their guinea pigs umpteen years ago didn't even have covers on their hutches and they were fine - ahhhhhh! Xx
 
Jess said:
Reports of guinea pigs getting their teeth trapped in the metal racks and dying as can't release themselves also there was a photo of a guinea pig trapped inside a metal treat ball. I refuse to have any metal in my pens.
Click to expand...
Thats very sad! I am changing my mind on getting that hay ball then, I read this last night and had a dream of having a hay ball and a hay rack with no sides! But they didn't get stuck so that is a relief! ( even if it was in my dream though ;) )
 
Snuggle 'safe' wool bedding, i wish it was banned.
Scented wood shavings, need i say more?
And my piggies insisting on kicking all the carefresh out of their tray and spreading it all over the fleece lol
 
Digging up the fleece, chewing the incontinence pads and popping and peeing underneath the shower curtain.Also sees and poos behind the litter trays.And people taking too long to get them to the vets
 
1.) Closed-mindedness in the Guinea Pig world.
2.) Watching my Guinea Pigs kick bedding and hay onto my floors I just vacuumed!
3.) Those who think all breeders are terrible, who think that there are rescues as an option on every inch of the planet, who think because you breed or support responsible breeding who can't have a care in the world for animals, etc. etc. You see my point.
4.) People who seem to keep nails uncomfortably long all the time!
5.) Pet stores giving the wrong idea on care. Especially when they have free care sheets for their animals, that are wrong or hardly even give an idea on care.
6.) No one in the area selling Aspen shavings in stores most people go to for their pets! Only Cedar and Pine.
7.) The destroying of a nice, clean cage after I put it all together, making it look a mess after an hour!
8.) Being allergic to everything Guinea Pig.
 
Smelly boy bums. Haha! I get the boy piggies out for lap time and end up smelling like a male guinea pig!

That and never being able to eat ben and jerrys chunky monkey ice cream without thinking the chocolate bananas look somewhat familiar...
 
My pet hates are things like,
1. Tinsel is a very big furball, only way I can explain is fur if like having a teddy type of pig then just making the hair extra long so when he pees it just get sucked up in to his fur! I usually find when I want a cuddle I get covered with pee :( :doh:
2. That odd bite they give you when they're annoyed with you for giving them a bath,:eek: that gets you in just the right place!
3. Giving them floor time but blocking off areas with wires or small places, so when they're out all they want to do is get at these places instead of running about in the huge area already given to them xD
BUT I love my piggies all the same :) :luv:
 
having a lovely laptime and putting them back realising that everything you're wearing is covered in hair... (this is even when i try to use a fleece to cover myself because Buddy decides I'm his own personal climbing frame)
 
Gizi said:
Thats very sad! I am changing my mind on getting that hay ball then, I read this last night and had a dream of having a hay ball and a hay rack with no sides! But they didn't get stuck so that is a relief! ( even if it was in my dream though ;) )
Click to expand...

We've recently had an incident like that where one of our new girls got so excited about food time that she got her head trapped in their metal hay rack. Thank God, hubby and I were both in the same room and noticed it in time. We managed to bend the metal, so that she could get out, but I wouldn't want to think what could have happened...
We've banned these metal things from our house now too... they are really dangerous!
 
And adding my GP pet hates:

- Definite no. 1: Piggies just don't live long enough :-(
- People who don't take them seriously.
- It doesn't matter how often you brush and clean the house... five minutes later the hay is back and it gets everywhere.
 
Kasper when I have just hoovered and he walks out of the cage and shakes his white hair all over a the black rug...

TINY cages

No hay!

Hay on the toilet seat :mal:
 
1- one of my piggies likes to be a food snob,turns his nose up at veggies that I usually provide so I end up popping back to the shops to get a different selection
2- George insisting that his litter tray is best positioned on his food bowl with the contents spread over his cleaned fleece
3- poo, poo and more poo..just endless poo :)
 
chelle83 said:
1- one of my piggies likes to be a food snob,turns his nose up at veggies that I usually provide so I end up popping back to the shops to get a different selection
2- George insisting that his litter tray is best positioned on his food bowl with the contents spread over his cleaned fleece
3- poo, poo and more poo..just endless poo :)
Click to expand...
Oh I like that endless poo thing :)
 
  • Picking up my piggy for a hug and then realising an hours gone by
  • Piggys just associating you as a veggy feeding machine and only get interesting in you when they think veg is being dropped off
  • Cutting piggys nails
  • Wanting to rescue all the piggys and realising you can't
  • Seeing neglected piggys
 
One thing I really hate is "it's only a guinea pig"

For some reason some people think small animals don't need vet attention..

You wouldn't let your cat/dog suffer, I won't let my piggie suffer (or any other small animal of course).

Oh.. And that first little piece of poop on a freshly cleaned cage!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top