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Guest Post: Essential Foods for Your Guinea Pig

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You’ve just purchased your guinea pig and when you bring he or she home, it starts to “wheek” and “chirp”. It’s hungry!  You go through your cabinets and offer it a Pop­Tart, popcorn, even chips, but it refuses to eat, a problem is brewing. Guinea pigs need essential foods for their survival and some foods just don’t cut it. Please put your guinea pig in its cage and go to the store, right away! Once you’re at the store, head to the produce area and get some leafy green veggies for your guinea pig. Guinea pigs thrive on leafy greens. Some leafy green veggies are high in Vitamin C, which your guinea pig needs on a daily basis in order for its survival. Lettuce is a great option. Do not buy iceberg though, because it lacks nutrients. I … Continue reading Guest Post: Essential Foods for Your Guinea Pig

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A Roundup of Pet Presents

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With three of our pets having birthdays this past spring, I started thinking about the topic of pet gifts. Initially, the gifts that celebrated milestones were what came to my mind. To jog my memory of what other gifts Andy and I have given our pets, I began looking at past journals and browsing through our many years’ worth of photos. Suddenly I had a long list. To make the resulting list more manageable, I began to make associations. Some gifts were practical, others helped enrich our pets’ lives, and many were just fun presents. In this article, I’ll share … Continue reading A Roundup of Pet Presents

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Fruity, Pudding, and Bee

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Wheek! In 2001, my life changed when I took home my first guinea pig. Each rental I lived in after that time was alive with squeaks, chortles, and the scurrying of tiny feet. My back yard brimmed with vegetables and I educated myself about the wide variety of fruits. Oxbow Animal Health, due to their expertise in hay, became one of my favorite companies. Over the next eleven years, I cared for three unique cavies before saying goodbye to the last in 2012. For my first cavy, I narrowed my choices to a brother and a sister at a local … Continue reading Fruity, Pudding, and Bee

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What Should You Feed Guinea Pigs?

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Wheek! Ah, it’s the delightful sound of guinea pigs demanding food. From 2001-2013, I was the proud owner of guinea pigs. In brief, guinea pigs need pellets, hay, vegetables, fruit, maybe a Vitamin C supplement, and of course water. What follows is an elaboration of that information based on my research and experience. PELLETS The majority of pet owners provide a pellet feed to their guinea pig. Pellets are a convenient way to ensure your guinea pig is getting necessary nutrients. Each guinea pig should have available approximately 1/8 cup of pellets a day when also fed adequate hay and … Continue reading What Should You Feed Guinea Pigs?