Articles on Guinea Pigs

How to Hold a Guinea Pig

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Guinea pigs are fragile little animals. Guinea pigs can break legs or their backs if they're dropped, and there's little you can do once these injuries occur. And they startle easily, making it even more important to know how to hold your guinea ... more »

How to Introduce Two Guinea Pigs

By Angela Dalecki

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Guinea pigs are social animals, and they thrive when they have another guinea pig living with them. However, guinea pigs have distinct personalities, just like people, and they don't always get along. Conflicting personalities coupled with ... more »

How to Know if a Pet Guinea Pig is Ill

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Guinea pigs rarely recover from illness without a veterinarian's care. You can enhance your pet's chances of recovery if you recognize the symptoms of his illness early on. Follow these steps... more »

How to Make Guinea Pig Treats

By Sandy Smith

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Guinea pigs, wonderful pets that they are, have two chief pleasures in life: food and fellowship. With this easy-to-follow recipe, you can add a little sparkle to the former. Hand-feed these nutritious little biscuits to your squeaky friend, and ... more »

How to Shampoo a Guinea Pig

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Bathing guinea pigs is a necessary part of their regular care. Guinea pigs do groom themselves, but because they spend much of their time in shavings that are often soiled, they can still get quite dirty. Guinea pigs in general are happy to be ... more »

How to Shop For a Guinea Pig

By Beren deMotier

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When you feel that tug at your trouser leg, and the big eyes are turned up at you appealingly, what can you say? “Yes, honey, you can have a guinea pig,” are words that can start a fun-filled day of pet shop hopping, Internet searching and ... more »

How to Tell a Male From a Female Guinea Pig

By NinaH

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Guinea pigs are wonderful household pets. Owners usually want to know the sex of their guinea so that an appropriate name can be chosen. Owners of multiple guinea pigs must know the sex of their animals in order to avoid unwanted litters... more »

How to Trim Guinea Pig Nails

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Guinea pigs are great small pets for children and adults alike. Like most pets, they require some grooming. This includes trimming the nails on a regular basis, which is an important part of keeping your guinea pig healthy. You can always take ... more »

How to Clean a Guinea Pig Cage

By Angela Dalecki

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In order for a guinea pig to remain healthy and happy, its cage must be cleaned on a regular basis. Depending on the size of the cage, cleaning should occur at least every one to two weeks... more »

How to Feed Guinea Pigs

By Angela Dalecki

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Guinea pigs are wonderful pets. They are small, clean, easy to take care of and wonderful with children. However, they have special dietary needs that their owners should be aware of... more »

How to Determine the Sex of a Guinea Pig

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Guinea pigs can multiply rapidly, even at a young age. It is essential to determine a guinea pig's gender to eliminate the chance of an unwanted litter. Even very young sows may be carrying babies when purchased from a pet store. By learning to ... more »

How to Cure the tick and flea problems for your animals

By Rosepedal

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Is that pet of yours having small or big problems with fleas, ticks or even the hot spots? I know a way that you can solve that problem and the best thing is it is a lot cheaper than those advertised products. If you will try this I promise that ... more »

How to Make Guinea Pig Food

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Properly caring for your guinea pig means providing your furry friend with a clean habitat, fresh water, lots of love and a healthy diet. Guinea pig pellets are not the best food choice for the health of your guinea pig. It's a good idea to ... more »

How to Care for Guinea Pigs

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Guinea pigs make great pets for animal lovers of all ages. They're relatively inexpensive, take up little space, make a minimal amount of noise and still have a lot of personality and love to share with their owners. It's important to know the ... more »

How to Decorate a Guinea Pig's Cage

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Your guinea pig may not seem to mind just hanging out in his hum-drum cage filled with nothing but a water bottle, food dish and a bunch of wood shavings. There are plenty of fun things you can add to his cage, though, to decorate it and make it ... more »

How to Diagnose Pregnancy in a Guinea Pig

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A pregnant guinea pig requires a great deal of special attention. If you should rescue a sow in questionable health, it's important to be able to diagnose pregnancy in a guinea pig so she can receive the best possible care... more »

How to Help a Pregnant Guinea Pig

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Guinea pigs do not stay pregnant for very long, so if your pet guinea pig becomes pregnant, you will need to prepare for the birthing process... more »

How to House a Pet Guinea Pig

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Guinea pigs are great pets for older children. They enjoy people and may even curl up and go to sleep on the laps of calm children. Guinea pigs are smart and once they get to know their owners, often whistle for attention or treats. If you're ... more »

How to Know What to Feed to Guinea Pigs

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Cute, clean and sociable, guinea pigs make wonderful pets. Learn what foods these perky little vegetarians need to keep them happy and healthy. It's just as important to make sure you never feed them dangerous foods, even if pet food stores ... more »

How to Rid a Guinea Pig of Mites

By Angela Dalecki

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Occasionally, guinea pigs can catch mites. Mites are microscopic and invisible to the human eye, but if your guinea pig is scratching or biting itself excessively, mites may be the culprit--especially if the scratching is accompanied by hair ... more »

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