Water Bottle Mystery

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Mystic_corgi

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My guinea pigs have two water bottles, but they NEVER use the second one its the exact same as the one they favor just smaller, yet they refuse to use it. Could there be a certain reason for this.... I have checked it multiple times to make sure it works and it works fine. Should I buy another one so they have two that they use orrrr what
 
Hi! No clue why they do this but my three girls are similar with their pellet bowl! They have a larger pellet bowl downstairs and a smaller one upstairs, but they never seem to take pellets from the top one! (only when the one downstairs is empty).
Not sure what it could be but just thought id share my similar experiences😊
 
If they are drinking, and aren’t arguing over it and pushing each other away by trying to be at it at the same time, then I really wouldn’t worry.
My boys have two identical bottles but they seem to prefer one over the other.
 
Mine were exactly the same so I removed the spurned bottle in the end!

They have a bottle and a bowl.

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Our boys are exactly the same will only drink from one even though they are both identical!
 
It's the same here in one of my cages. It seems to be the position rather than the bottle, I swapped the bottles over, they always drink from the one on their right.
 
It must be a piggy thing.
I see mine sometimes queuing up at a water bottle when there’s another one a few inches away.
They do the same with the food bowls too.
For some reason the identical pellets are better from one bowl and they will only eat from the 2nd bowl when there’s none left in the favourite bowl :bye:
 
I always have two water bottles, side by side, in their hutch in case one fails. Even though they never use the one to their right, I figured that if something went wrong with the other, then in desperation they would. Wrong. For the first time ever last night, the one they use, on their left, did fail. We can't have screwed the lid on properly and by this morning the fleece was soaked and the bottle totally empty. Yet they had not touched the other water bottle, even though Ophelia is constantly needing to drink. As soon as the favoured one was refilled, they were both at it, one immediately after the other, drinking copiously. They are identical bottles and although one is marginally lower than the other it is at a height that appears comfortable to them ... when it is positioned to their left.
 
KHBz said:
I always have two water bottles, side by side, in their hutch in case one fails. Even though they never use the one to their right, I figured that if something went wrong with the other, then in desperation they would. Wrong. For the first time ever last night, the one they use, on their left, did fail. We can't have screwed the lid on properly and by this morning the fleece was soaked and the bottle totally empty. Yet they had not touched the other water bottle, even though Ophelia is constantly needing to drink. As soon as the favoured one was refilled, they were both at it, one immediately after the other, drinking copiously. They are identical bottles and although one is marginally lower than the other it is at a height that appears comfortable to them ... when it is positioned to their left.
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I am rather disconcerted that the pair of them would dehydrate in front of a full water bottle; Ophelia continuing to try to drink out of the empty one. (It was the unusual rattling sound as Ophelia attempted to drink that immediately alerted my daughter to the fact that something was wrong with the bottle when she went in this morning.)
 
I have three water bottles in my cage (I have a herd of six). I noticed the same thing, with the piggies having a water bottle preference - what I noticed is it's location seems to be what matters more than the bottle itself. Depending on where I placed it in the cage depended on how much one bottle was used over another.
 
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