Piggies chewing everything

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My 2 girlies have been chewing everything recently and i don't know how to stop them. They have chewed there fleeces, the clamps i use to hold the fleece onto the cage and today they chewed there water bottle so that it fell apart and the whole bottle leaked into the cage and i had to change the fleece again even though i only did it yesterday.
I love my piggies so much but its getting really annoying now, i have given them wooden chews and willow sticks but they don't touch them.
Is there anything i can do to stop them?
 
I'm not sure really. Mine don't chew their wood chews either. Do the willow sticks have bark on them? Mine like to chew the bark off their log cabins.

You can get glass water bottles for chinchillas, that might help.

I dunno about the fleece though, sorry.

I assume they have hay available to chew at all times anyway?
 
How strange? Mine always chewed their pigloos and the bark off things, and any chance they got of bin liners (?) but nothing else, oh actually one more thing....newspaper!
 
Yes they get hay but only twice a day not all the time as they tend to eat it until every last bit is gone and i didn't think that was good for them.
I suppose thats maybe where I'm going wrong, will try to give them more hay throughout the day.
Yeah the sticks had bark on them but they didn't go near them!
 
defo defo defo hay ALL the time, try not to let it run out, its best way of keeping their teeth in check hon :)
 
I agree, they should have a constant supply of hay.

You could also try stuffing some of their hay into the cardboard holders for loo roll. Mine love nibbling through those to get to the hay. (If they are small you may want to split it along one side so they don't get a head stuck in it.)

Treatballs are great to put their dry food in; they have to work at it by pushing it around to get to the food. Keeps them occupied for quite awhile.

HTH
 
I was looking to get a treatball so will defo get one now :) I was also thinking of hanging the loo rolls filled with hay up across the cage, just waiting for someone here to finish the loo roll!
 
There's a reason Nibbles is called Nibbles....he chews anything, especially peoples hair, plastic, waterbottles, the food bowl (even when there's food in it) necklaces or sequins on clothes. I've just given up telling him to stop and just wear a thick fleece whenever I hold him. If there is a way to get them to stop I desperately need to know it!

Amy
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*Nibbles&Nugget* said:
There's a reason Nibbles is called Nibbles....he chews anything, especially peoples hair, plastic, waterbottles, the food bowl (even when there's food in it) necklaces or sequins on clothes. I've just given up telling him to stop and just wear a thick fleece whenever I hold him. If there is a way to get them to stop I desperately need to know it!

Amy
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And i thought mine were bad! i think some animals are just into chewing whereas i think my piggies are bored. I used to have a rabbit that liked to bite my stomach so at least my piggies don't do that!
 
I think having hay to chew will help you heaps! It's supposed to be "unlimited", more than they can eat. Hay won't make them sick, like too much veggies would.

Other things they may enjoy are fresh apple or willow branches. Mine go crazy and nibble the bark right off :)) How about shoebox houses? Those would be ok to chew too...
 
I think they can't have too much hay, the more the better. :) So I'd give them hay all the time, and hopefully they'll just chew on that instead! Good luck :)
 
BellasMummy said:
I was looking to get a treatball so will defo get one now :) I was also thinking of hanging the loo rolls filled with hay up across the cage, just waiting for someone here to finish the loo roll!
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Lol, I swear my kids go through the loo roll twice as quick now in an effort to keep the guinea pigs well supplied. :))

Shoebox houses as suggested sound like a great idea. I'm patiently waiting for the kids to return to school so I can use their new shoes' boxes for piggy hideys. :red
 
Good plan with the shoe box hideys, loo rolls, a tissue box stufffed with hay as a hay rack will also work a treat, i even hide veggies in egg boxes with hay ontop some they have to rummage for the nice tasty stuffs - keeps them quiet for five mins! :) I also got some fruit wood chews for the boys as they have never touched their willow sticks, and they love them! :) Hope they stop chewing soon!
 
I got the girls a treat ball today but they have just chewed it! not even attempted to roll it to get a treat :( I also got another toy that they have chewed and thrown around.
 
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