Cavy Health Problems

Hi everyone!

Today I'm going to talk about guinea pig health problems.

Common Ailments:

• Too long teeth. Guinea pig's teeth grow constantly through out their life. If your piggy is not given hard things to chew on, his or her teeth will grow too long and curl. Curled teeth in a cavy can lead to starvation. 

• Obesity. Guinea pigs who are feed unhealthy food and/or do not get any exercise will develop obesity. 

Please take good care of your piggies so they will live long, happy, healthy lives.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been pretty busy.

Marshmallow and Licorice are doing fine, and so is Holly. Holly has lost a little weight which is good considering how obese she is.

Yesterday I gave each piggy a little piece of raw corn on the cob. They were so happy! The boys ate theirs' down to little bare nubs. And Holly ate the entire thing! I looked all around Holly's cage but I couldn't find the cob. So I guess they really enjoyed it!

The boys have a really big tupperware container full of hay in their pen. They dug tons of tunnels through all the hay. :)

I brought home Oreo yesterday. I changed her name to Holly. She's very sweet and loves to cuddle!

Holly:

Oreo

There is a new guinea pig at my local animal shelter. Her name is Oreo. Oreo came to the shelter with another piggy named Cinnamon. Their previous owners did not take good care of them and feed them junk. Cinnamon is seven months old and Oreo is two years old. Cinnamon has already found a loving home but Oreo is till at the shelter. Oreo is on hold for me and I will be adopting her soon!

Hello again!
The piggies have been very happy lately! Marshmallow's now litter trained and Licorice is working on it. Their birthday is coming up on October 2nd ( still a little while away) and they will be one years old.
A happy "hi" from the cavy gang!

I'm really sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been really busy lately, mostly with the guinea pigs. In my last post I said that I was going to try to bond another pig. For a while I didn't have time and now it's probably too late. :( So I'm not going to work on bonding them. To avoid a fight, of course.

Here's a pic I took recently of Licorice.

I have exciting news! I might be adding another piggie to my clan! You see, the person I got Marshmallow and Licorice from (a friend of mine) had a guinea pig that had babys and that's where mine pigs came from. My freind kept one of the siblings and sold the rest. Toffee(the one she still has) is becoming very depressed because he misses his brothers so much!:( So what we are going to do is she'll let me borrow Toffee for a while to see if they fight. And if they don't then she'll let me have him! It's like a sixty forty chance that they'll fight. Sadly the sixty is that they will fight.:( But we'll just have to wait and see what happens. Wish me good luck!