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onenameshelley

onenameshelley

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Funny little creatures arent they?? I dont know how on earth they cope in the wild as they are the most skitterish pet i have ever seen. Am currently looking after another urbanites guinea pigs and after only 1 night i am completely smitten with them, not only do they make fantastic noises (like ewoks!! :cool: ) at each other, they are just amusing to watch especially the long haired one its like watching a big hairball on legs. They do poo a lot though :)

Anyone else got some of these funny little furries??
 
I love guinea pigs. Especially the ruffled punky haired ones. I had many while growing up, our friends round the corner also had some and so we had a few baby ones (at their best when they start leapfrogging each other).

I seem to be allergic to furry things now so for christmas we got two of these.
 
drag0n said:
I love guinea pigs. Especially the ruffled punky haired ones. I had many while growing up, our friends round the corner also had some and so we had a few baby ones (at their best when they start leapfrogging each other).

I seem to be allergic to furry things now so for christmas we got two of these.
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ahh thats a shame about the allergies, there is something really comforting about a furry pet that you can pet. I really wanted a gupi for ages too they are cool. Yep the black one has big hair and the other one is a blonde short haired one. I wonder if you can house train guinea pigs like you can rabbits??
 
onenameshelley said:
ahh thats a shame about the allergies, there is something really comforting about a furry pet that you can pet. I really wanted a gupi for ages too they are cool. Yep the black one has big hair and the other one is a blonde short haired one. I wonder if you can house train guinea pigs like you can rabbits??
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I can pet my GUPI. :) it's not exactly the same but at least robots don't need feeding etc. Also they wont get eaten by foxes (as happened to several of my old pets).

I'm pretty sure you can't house train them sadly. The family round the corner had a housetrained rabbit but the guinea pigs were always outside.
 
I'm allergic to them too. It's horrible because I love them so much :(

We had one when I was a child and I was fine but later in life, I suddenly became allergic. Boo!
 
I *heart* pigs. My best mate has two, and I love the way they sing to each other.

They sure ain't the bravest of animals though, eh. That's interesting about all the allergies though. Someone told me that they were allergic to pigs and I thought it was just because they didn't want me to have pigs (they weren't allergic to my hamster...)
 
I went out with this girl once that invited me back to her house, we went out into the back garden and the were several Guinea Pigs, I commented that this was cute. She then took me to a large shed that's was full of the little critters, as I walked round the corner they all stopped their squeaks and stared at me in an eery and uncomfortable silence.

I like Guinea Pigs......but I just don't trust large groups of them. :eek:
 
wiskey said:
so are guinea pigs house trainable? or do they chew through wires and stuff?
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Best kept in a cage - they don't seem to be able to control their poo particularly well. They've got very weak hearts - the cat gave one of our guinea pigs a heart attack :(
 
I've been living with the most adorable little dooberry of a guinea pig for the last few months. He has a little personality and everything! He's fully housetrained but apparently this is unusual. pinkmonkey is his mummy and she knows all about him so I'll let her do all the factoloidal stuff.


I *heart* guinea pigs! :)
 
trashpony said:
Best kept in a cage - they don't seem to be able to control their poo particularly well. They've got very weak hearts - the cat gave one of our guinea pigs a heart attack :(
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Yeah they poo a lot waaaay more than my rabbit did, bless everytime i move they both run into the poster tubes, it was like a comedy moment where the arse of the black one was at one end of the tube and the blonde ones face was the other end.
 
goldenecitrone said:
An ex of mine had a thing about guinea pigs. She reckoned they made around 60 distinct noises which she could understand.
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I dunno about that but they sound like ewoks which makes me happy. Did your ex make you talk to them ;)
 
onenameshelley said:
I dunno about that but they sound like ewoks which makes me happy. Did your ex make you talk to them ;)
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No, thankfully. Another ex of mine used to have two rats that had been saved from a lab. I've never been a great animal lover myself. (awaits a head laugh offable response from EE or other great wags) :p
 
onenameshelley said:
Yeah they poo a lot waaaay more than my rabbit did, bless everytime i move they both run into the poster tubes, it was like a comedy moment where the arse of the black one was at one end of the tube and the blonde ones face was the other end.
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Even better is with a head at both ends.. like pushmepullyou's :cool:
 
onenameshelley said:
I wonder if you can house train guinea pigs like you can rabbits??
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I bought a toilet tray thing in the hope that they might get the point..

First time I looked, Shirley (the blonde one) was sitting in it...

No pooh :mad:

Second time, she was chewing on the plastic, and proceeded to turn the thing on it's end, and was covered in woodchippings! :D

Still no pooh though :mad:

I gave up after that. You think they pooh a lot, I reckon they wee a lot more.
 
My kids have got 2! :)

We have a special kitchen house for them, and I love they way they call to me when I come down first thing in the morning. They are MUCH more fun than rabbits.

One is a cappuchino coloured punk job, the other tortoiseshell , she has one black foot, one ginger foot, one white foot and one pink foot. :cool:

I love their ears :)
 
wiskey said:
so are guinea pigs house trainable? or do they chew through wires and stuff?
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They're not supposed to be but I managed to housetrain ours, easily. But recently he seems a lot happier in a cage,so he's no longer free range. I think he's getting a bit old and doddery (he'll be six in October), he doesn't tear about the place anymore and he wants cuddles every night. :)

We did have the hide the wires though and he loves eating paper too,he's anybodys' for a Rizla.

The only problem with free range pigs is them coming into your bedroom at 6 am every morning, walking down the side of your bed and whistling into your ear to ask for food.

That and your next door neighbours thinking you have really lost it because you are seen wandering around your garden at 6.05 a.m. in your bathrobe, picking grass. :D
 
They are without a doubt the most nervous animals in the world , they get scared if I even look at them ! Still quite cute though :D
 
We've got 2 of the little beggars. Vyvyan is ginger with a mohican and Giz is a black silky fluffball - brothers. They appear to have homosexual tendancies :eek: - well, Vyv is always humping Giz anyway(as my daughter is keen to tell me).

I've not been able to train them - and in my experience they definitely poo more than they pee.
 
i'm not very up with pig noises so i just looked in feyr jnrs " can you hear the duck quack?" book which covers a guinea pig , and apparently they go meep meep :)

that is what I learnt in school today , and i shall be writing to Daz simpson to inform him of this :)
 
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