Smartecosse
Junior Guinea Pig
We collected two boys from the Scottish SPCA on Saturday....having been ourselves at the start of the week to have a look at them, fill in paperwork etc and then back again on the Saturday as they wanted to see our children before we could take the guinea pigs home....
Anyway, they were lifted out the cage and sat on our kids laps (who were sitting on the floor) and had a little pet, didn't really move around much.
They have been with us since Saturday morning, they are eating as the food keeps disappearing but they really don't come out the house or out from under the hay when you are there. If you sit quietly at night when the lights are down you can eventually see them come out for their food, I sat for more than an hour in the dark the other night as I wanted to make sure that both were eating - which they are.
They don't appear to be drinking the water, or only a tiny amount but the veg they get is soaked and they are eating cucumber and watermelon as well which is high in water content.
I've read the pages about letting them settle in and so forth, should I be worried that they only venture out when we are not there or is this normal? Obviously I have no idea what they were treated like before they ended up at the rescue centre.....
Anyway, they were lifted out the cage and sat on our kids laps (who were sitting on the floor) and had a little pet, didn't really move around much.
They have been with us since Saturday morning, they are eating as the food keeps disappearing but they really don't come out the house or out from under the hay when you are there. If you sit quietly at night when the lights are down you can eventually see them come out for their food, I sat for more than an hour in the dark the other night as I wanted to make sure that both were eating - which they are.
They don't appear to be drinking the water, or only a tiny amount but the veg they get is soaked and they are eating cucumber and watermelon as well which is high in water content.
I've read the pages about letting them settle in and so forth, should I be worried that they only venture out when we are not there or is this normal? Obviously I have no idea what they were treated like before they ended up at the rescue centre.....