Mega Guinea Pig Care Q&A! Your Questions Answered!

Answering your questions all about guinea pig care! Including behaviors and dominance issues, taming and human interaction, grooming, healthcare and the dreaded vets, diet, and staying away from our piggies. Check the chapters to navigate around and if you found this video useful let me know 😃🥰

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Guinea Pig Dominance Problems
6:30 Can more than 2 boars get along?!
8:01 How to help nervous piggies brave lap time?
9:37 Biting guinea pigs?!
11:37 Picking up otherwise friendly piggies
13:30 Can piggies be therapy animals?
15:22 How do I look after Nacho's hair? My pig HATES it?!
18:40 Advice for cutting black nails?
7:20 What about the CARPET!
19:14 How do you find a vet you can trust?
28:28 Guinea pig diet: do they even need pellets?
25:13 Guinea pigs not drinking enough water?
26:09 Do older piggies have trouble digesting fresh foods?
27:46 My vets say the pigs need Vitamin C supplements?
29:01 What to do when you go on holiday?

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[SqueakDreams]

It's a beast! We tackle a lot of guinea pig care topics in this video, I recommend treating it as a podcast and listening along as you do your piggies chores 😍😄

[ChristopherTradeshow]

I got a singular piggie last night from a friend. his cage was a fish tank, had muslei mix for food. and bedding was wood chips. his bedding is now a blanket with hay to sleep on and eat with normal pellets and fresh cucumber and parsley. his cage is also bigger now. he also let me pet and hold him immediately

[cerullomichelle]

If anyone else is in the Chicago area, I use Chicawoof for my pet-sitting needs for my three boars and they are FANTASTIC. They don’t usually come up in searching for guinea pig sitting, because they’re primarily cat and dog focused, but I’m so glad that they were recommended to me. All of the folks I’ve worked with have been so professional and they take the best pictures and it was just SUCH a relief knowing my goobers were safe while I’m away.

[mariannelueder]

Hello Sarah! Thank you for your new and very informative video. I‘ve been having piggies for 20 years now and I can still remember how nervous I was when I first had to cut my long-haired piggies‘ hair. What helped me, was using a pair of scissors with rounded tips - like you find in a first-aid kit. I really recommend that - not only for nervous owners, but also for nervous piggies. They might do unexpected movements and easily hurt theirselves by jumping against the tip of the scissors. Rounded tips really help reducing this risk. Best wishes, Marianne and herd

[uwvmhww]

Hello!!!! Sarah Your channel is very helpful and amazing! Thank You!❤

[ktm_washere]

25:15 Bandit and Splodge here! We (and our Mummy Kt) feel very honoured and touched that we got a mention on your video!! Thank you so much! And thank you for the advice - Mummy is reassured now!! ❤❤

[scifirocks]

I think guinea pig boarding or sitting would be a good video idea for you. I've kept guinea pigs for around 15 years and started taking in boarders several months ago. What surprised me is that there are no rules or regulations at all for boarding animals other than cats and dogs in the UK. I'm a very experienced pig keeper, but technically anyone could take them in and be legal. Since there are no guidelines I went with what I would expect if I were to entrust my own pigs to someone. Things that you should ask are how long they've cared for guinea pigs, do they have an exotic vet nearby, do they know how to syringe feed and give medication, can you visit before booking, will they have floor time, do they disinfect supplies between guests and many other questions. There seem to be two main types of facilities too, there are experienced people who take in small amounts of animals as a hobby/side hustle and bigger places with a lot of animals and staff members. I'm in the latter category, I had a look at quite a few websites- there doesn't seem to be a massive price difference but smaller places seem to give more individual attention.

[rayaxpawzy]

Hey Sarah! Hope you and the piggy fam are well 💕 Would it be possible for you to do a vid on convincing your parents to keep your guineapigs inside. I know that guineapigs CAN live outside however we live near a town where there are noisy ambulances and there are neighbours cats and one of my pigs sadly passed due to a heart attack from that and I couldn't bare that happening again. So, just a thought on tips to help them realise that they are living creatures who get scared quite easily. Thank you for all your tips in your videos they've made me become such a better piggie mom sending love to the herd 💕

[User-lvhn]

You have inspired me so much that I’m now getting two New Guinea Pigs tomorrow and they are two cute boys❤❤❤😊😊

[inez.m.]

Another fantastic video! Thank you Sarah ❤

[amd]

Hello! Thank you for such a lovely video! I wanted to add a comment about supplementary vitamin C. I have a piggie girl who developed some trouble walking several years ago and the vet recommended liquid vitamin C. It fixed her right up! She gets 1ml three days a week of the CHILDLIFE ESSENTIALS Liquid Vitamin C for Infants, Toddlers & Kids, which I order off of Amazon. She absolutely loves it! As for the cause of the problem, my piggie suddenly stopped eating her cecal poops years ago (no idea why), so I think she was not getting enough vitamin C from her food no matter how many bell peppers I fed her!

[Jus-txzm]

Can you make a genie pig video like a normal like watching them. I hope it will be 1 hour 🤞

[sofiaalonso]

Hello! First of all, I wanted to tell you that I love your channel and it has helped me a lot with my 6 guinea pigs. Greetings from Madrid, Spain.

I must say that even though I know your intention is the best... perhaps you shouldn't advise anyone not to be alarmed if they see their guinea pig squealing when another one is chasing it... I did it and the one that was fleeing lost one of its hands... the other male caused a wound and it got infected incredibly fast... seeing how the hand of your 3-month-old guinea pig is necrosing and falling off is one of the most traumatic experiences I've had with my babies (and that's saying something, considering that in the past I worked as a veterinary technician in the operating room and I've seen real atrocities).

That said, I again thank you for your effort with the channel :) and I would like to ask if you could make some kind of video explaining the best options for enclosures for our guinea pigs.

[cavymum]

This was great! You answered so many of my questions... one that I actually added in a comment to another video of yours. Thank you so much for sharing the knowledge you have about the piggies with those of us who are new to them. Have a wonderful day!

[mjanderson]

Thanks for taking the time to answer some of my questions. Hoppy and I are making the 4 hr trip to the nearest guinea pig rescue this weekend to hopefully find him a buddy. I've learned a lot from the comments about bonding multiple boars too, so I really appreciate everyone sharing their experiences. Melissa

[rosannw]

This was a fantastic video! Thank you so much, it must have taken a lot of work to put it together. Some advice regarding finding a good "piggy sitter" is to find other piggy owners in your town that you would be willing to take turns with caring for each other's piggies while on vacation. Have them come to your home once a day to feed, fill water, clean, etc. and vice versa.
One question I still have is - why does my piggy constantly chew on the wire bars of her cage? How can I discourage her from that habit?

[jenneferpierce]

I was going to get a guinea pig and you taught me so much about them and now they’re so happy thank you so much❤❤❤❤❤❤

[biancamolenaar]

Love your video, s. Learn so much from you. Much off your tips are so valuable

[PM-gxbp]

Your piggies are so adorable and unique.

[christineparker]

Aww such a helpful video m so luckily with my 2 boys I have a 2 very experienced vet for my piggies one of them even saved the life of my pet bunny life due to me not giving the bunny the right diet for me going away my boys go to a family who had Guinea pigs all of they life and set a boarding place and give medicine to them if needed if on metacam they no worry’s with that my boys love the stuff