6.10.2013

Homemade Guinea Pig Toy DIY: Tunnel Tube

how to make guinea pig tunnel toy

Some of the best guinea pig toys can be made from items found around your home. Here's how to turn an empty oatmeal container into a fun cardboard tunnel.

Instructions

  1. Empty any remaining oatmeal from the container. 
  2. Wipe down the inside with a damp cloth.
  3. Remove the plastic lid and container lip. Discard the label and any other packaging materials.
  4. Cut out the bottom end and give the tunnel to your piggy to play with! Remove the tunnel if they pee inside to avoid having damp pigs.

how to make guinea pig cardboard tunnel

Belka, Truffle, and Abby-Roo frequently run zoomies through the tunnel as part of their floor time obstacle course. Occasionally Poof will takes a few nibbles on the end. Best of all, they can be recycled or composted when it's time for a new one.

Are your piggies fond of running through tunnels?

8 comments:

  1. I often bring these to the pignic, because they're light and easy stuff to bring and the pigs love them.

    I have cloth tunnels that my girls love. My girls tend to pee in the tunnels, and cardboard tunnels result in wet pigs.

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    1. That's a good point. I rarely see mine sitting in them (they're more fond of sticking poops to the insides) but others might hide and pee in them. I'll add a note.

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  2. We use paper bags that wine bottles are often packaged in when purchased at the store. Open the end and they have a fun crinkly tunnel to run through, chew on, pee in, and can easily be thrown away once wet! We save them up as we get them for 'treat toys' now and then. (I have to admit, there has been at least ONE instance where we bought some cheap wine just for the bag for the pigs; sure cavy-slave indication.) :-)

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    1. That's a good reason as any "I need this for the pigs!" ;)

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  3. When I go to the dollar store I buy a package of brown lunch bags. My Oreo loves them, I put one in his cage daily and he runs thru it and chews it up... every day he gets a new bag... he's so happy too..

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  4. Our owner had some big cardboard tubes that were used to post things in. They were made of really stiff hard thick card, so she had to use a saw to saw them up into smaller tubes we could use. The stress she went through! Haha (she can't use a saw very well lol)! It was worth it though :)

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  5. Can you use a plastic cup instead of an oatmeal container, or does it have to be the paper kind?

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    1. I would avoid plastic because some pigs tend to chew on it or even try to eat it. There are also fleece tunnels if you're looking for a longer lasting toy.

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