Position of water bottles

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If they are high up the guinea has to stretch, which I thought would not be good for the neck. if they are lower, they turn their heads sideways. As it is hard to get the position right for all of them, which is better - higher or lower?
 
Tonni and Guin have theirs fairly high as they only delicatrly lick the ball-bearing. Whereas Peanuts and Rattie have their low cos they seem to like taking the whole spout - like using it as a straw! ;) The other girlies have it high-ish too and do the same as Guin :)

Icey and Tiny, Cuddles and Squeaky have bowls. :)
 
I used to worry a lot about water bottle position when I first got my guineas... I guess I am just used to it now and place it at an inbetween height... it is hard to get it just right but as you say they find a way to get it either way!
 
I've found that having it lower is the lesser of the two evils. My piggies used to have theirs quite high but I felt they were in danger of hurting themselves by stretching to get at it so I lowered it to the only other place it could go and they seemed a lot happier.

I've now got sippys for them instead - to reduce leakage - and these don't rely on anything to sit on but can be affixed anywhere and at any height.
 
Yes i place mine in an in between hight too, although truffles always gets dribbles down the left side of his fur with the way he drinks his water!
 
Fluffly & Patch likes to just tilt her head up to reach it.
Biscuit and Fudge and smidge like tilting there head sideways.
And georgy likes it lower than him.
 
Cindy and wilson chew on it rather than lick it so i put it not too low but not too high lol... just like head height...
 
i dont put mine too ot too high just in between as long as there cat get there water
 
I put mine slightly higher - they have to very slightly stretch but get the water fine. I started doing this because Tia and Angela both have the habit of leaning against the bottles causing them to leak ::).

Being slightly higher stops this.
 
Mine have to have it low, not that I want to, but they have to be.

Because of the cage height and the size of the water bottle, I can only just fit the bottle onto the wired cage. But, even if I can do that, it is very low, and most of my guinea pigs like to put the whole spout in their mouths to drink from it, so it's quite hard if they are large piggies. The younger, smaller ones find it less hard, of course.

It's just we need big bottles because most of the groups are large and so they drink quite a bit. Largest bottle size and only just fits the door. Pretty good, really. :)
 
On ours, the end of the spout is level with clover's nose... she likes to attack it, chew it etc! I heard that guineas sometimes push the mushed food in their mouths, into the spout of the bottle! I really can't remember where i heard this... but i think that's what she might be doing
 
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