Skidding around on the floor

Hardwood floors make it difficult for our piggy feet to keep traction! Coppy and Sharky always used to skid around madly during out of cage time - and not always intentionally.

Five guinea pigs, one bowl of wheatgrass

Five guinea pigs and only one bowl of wheatgrass. What's a cavy to do?

A guinea pig's morning exercises

Some humans make it a point to exercise in the morning. Well, Belka is a cavy who also enjoys an early workout. She takes advantage of the space available in our C&C fleece cage to sprint laps, wind around obstructions, leap over objects and hurdle upstairs. Her favorite obstacles include pigloos, tunnels, huts, tents, food bowls and anything else she can find lying around the cage.

Guinea pig laundry

This is what it looks like in the laundry room when our humans change our C&C cage and wash all of our laundry.

Poof munches on mint leaves

Poof is a guinea pig who happens to love eating herbs! She has so many favorites, it is difficult to say which she likes best - cilantro, parsley, dill, basil, fennel and mint, Poof will gobble them down without pause.

Belka & Truffle's Pat Carrot and Billy the Pig magnet from Guinea Pig Magazine!

Truffle and Belka strike a pose

Whee are very excited to share that Belka and Truffle are now the stars of an adorable refrigerator magnet sold in the Guinea Pig Magazine online shop!

Peaches peeks around the corner

"Is that a plastic bag I hear?"

Peaches pokes her piggy nose around the corner hoping for a snack. Like any guinea pig, she loves her vegetables and gets very excited at the sound of crinkling plastic, rustling bags and fridge doors opening.

Truffle's baby pigtures

Pigtures of Truffle when she was a baby - she is about 2 to 3 months old in these snapshots. How times have changed!

Tracking your guinea pigs weight

Regularly weighing your guinea pigs is good practice - not only does it give you an idea of what weight fluctuations are normal for your pig, but it also allows you to identify potentially worrisome trends, such as a gradual weight loss. As we have written before, sudden weight loss and decreased appetite are some of the first symptoms to show up when cavies fall ill so tracking your pigs weight is essential for their long term health (see earlier post here).

Hidden cavies

Shh, humans... can't you see we piggies are busy trying to nap under here?

Revy's Guinea Pig C&C Cage Expansion - Second floor loft

Surveying her new domain

For those of you interested in guinea pig C and C cage layouts, Revy would like to show off her newly remodeled cage! Our contractors (aka the humans) gave her cage an upgrade last weekend, adding in a second floor loft and ramp. She had to put down a sizeable piggy bean payment and borrow some from the neighboring pigs, but thinks it was well worth it.

Corn husks, a guinea pig favorite!

Morry, Sharky and Coppy eating happily in a large pile of corn husks

Many people have let their cavy nibble the occasional ear of corn (fresh and uncooked of course), but what they don't know is that guinea pigs can also eat corn husks. As much as we guinea pigs enjoy eating corn itself, we love the corn husks even more! It is one of our most favorite foods, next to fresh grass.

Keep your cavies warm in winter

Just a friendly reminder to keep your guinea pigs warm and dry indoors during the chilly winter months! Guinea pigs are particularly susceptible to upper respiratory infections (URIs), which can result from exposure to cold damp environments - such as soiled bedding or being kept outdoors/in the garage.

Raise cavy morale!

Just sharing these in case you haven't seen them yet! Many people are familiar with the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster that was commissioned by the British government during World War II to raise public morale in the event of an invasion or other wartime emergency.

A Guinea Pig's Normal Body Temperature

Fellow cavies, does your human like to spend extra time cuddling you on chilly days? Well, this is because us guinea pigs operate at a higher normal body temperature than humans do!

Sharing hay and grass

It was surprisingly sunny out yesterday (73 degrees F) so we piggies got to sit outside and munch on timothy hay while one of our slaves changed our cages indoors.

Happy New Year!

Whee would like to wish everybody and everypiggy a happy New Year! Hope you all had a lovely time. We piggies stayed up late to ring in the new year. Or at least that was the plan...