Guinea Pigs: The Essential Guide To Ownership, Care, & Training For Your Pet (Guinea Pig Care)

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Guinea pigs are wonderful animals who can make great companions for a variety of families; they’re gentle, tiny and have amazing personalities. Not to mention every single one of them is as cute as a button! Here are key facts about them to help you determine whether you should adopt a guinea pig into your family.

Guinea pigs are delightful little creatures that make wonderful pets. They are relatively low-maintenance, and their cute factor is off the charts. If you’re thinking about adding a guinea pig to your family, you’re probably wondering what the best books about guinea pigs are. Here’s a list of our favorites: The affection for the pigs shines through both the text and the pictures, of guinea pigs eating, playing, talking, and looking sweet and impossibly cute.My own Olga lived to seven-and-a-half years old; not bad for a guinea pig. My father built a hutch for her as well as a run so that she could go out in the garden,” said Jankel, who ran Bond’s literary estate for 30 years until the company the family had formed was sold in 2016. For those who prefer to read a hardcopy book, we highly recommend getting a copy of Peter Gurney’s “The Proper care of guinea pigs”. This book provides great information on guinea pig basic care and comes highly recommended amongst the guinea pig owner community. Mr. Gurney provides comprehensive advice on topics such as handling, feeding, grooming, and more. A must read for beginners and advanced owners of the loveable guinea pig variety. “Guinea Piglopedia: A Complete Guide to Guinea Pigs” by: Margaret Elward and Mette Ruelokke I liked that the voice of the narrator was important to the book because it matched with why people keep and learn about animals like guinea pigs that are typically kept as pets: love for them and the connections we can build with other species. As for their name, they were first brought to Europe about 400 years ago by Spanish sailors, probably from a country in South America called Dutch Guiana … and the sailors called the animals 'guiana pigs'.

This 1995 live-action film follows the story of a pig who is taken in by a farmer. He learns how to herd sheep and becomes friends with a guinea pig along the way. 9. FernGully: The Last Rainforest Plus, I accidentally lost my cousins' guinea pig when I was 12, so I have guinea pig guilt, too. (If you bring a guinea pig out on in the yard to eat grass, you have to keep an eye on it, or it WILL disappear.) There are plenty of great movies out there that feature guinea pigs as the main characters. Here are 10 of the best: 1. G-Force We even learn the Latin name for them, Cavia porcellus, as they are members of the cavy [South American rodent] family. They appear in lots of different colours and they can be smooth, rough or long-coated; varieties include Smooth, Peruvian, Crested, Sheltie and Abyssinian, the last named being the author's favourite. Guinea pigs are awake throughout the day and night. While typically they are not too noisy at night, they may run around a bit. They prefer to take naps in between play and mealtime.Absolutely! Guinea pigs get to know their people, get excited to see them and love to spend time with their family. When you are an adult, it’s easy to look guinea pigs up on Wikipedia to know about their lifespan and how they behave and other clinical details. But what’s the fun in that staid exercise when children’s literature can bring colours and benevolent voice to the information? s G-Force is a team of secret agent animals, trained to work together to help save the world. These animal agents use their unique abilities and gadgets to fight crime and keep the world safe. The movie follows the G-Force team as they try to stop an evil billionaire from taking over the world with his army of household appliances. Guinea Pig Cages’ blog is another helpful forum where guinea pig owners can interact with one another. Members can post to various threads for advice from their fellow guinea pig enthusiasts and, have threads from general care advice to news and media published on guinea pigs. This forum also has specific threads dedicated to guinea pig owners who live outside of the USA: threads for owners living in Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia/New Zealand, and Asia. Wheekers