Guinea Pig Exercise
Guinea Pigs like all living animals need plenty
of exercise. When you let them run around on the floor you
will see how much they really enjoy a good run. Guinea Pigs
when happy "Pop Corn". When running or standing
still, all of a sudden your Piggy will leap in to the air
with joy. When I first saw this Kornage was on the sofa with
me, running up and down. Then all of a sudden he started doing
it, at first I thought he was having a convulsion. I now know
this to be pop corning. When your piggie's are in a group,
if one starts to do it you will notice most of the time the
others will too. It's really very cute to watch. Kornage pop
corns the most when he is on the floor with the girls. We
have nick named him Bucking Bull because that's what we liken
it too.
If you let your Guinea Pigs run around freely
in doors you MUST make sure you block off all cables. Millie
Nawty Moozer has chomped her way through lots of my cables.
A long story so I will keep it short, even when you block
off all places your Piggie's can get to that have wires there,
your friends unblock them unknowing to you by accident! I
had to replace 3 network cables, one scanner cable, speaker
cable and the sky cable! you get my point here ?
If you do put your Guinea Pig on the floor and
they have had newspaper in their cage, try putting some down
on the floor. I found my piggie's liked to use this to go
to the loo on.
You can also get small animal litter trays. They are not like
cat litter trays, they are made in a triangle shape with one
corner higher. Some Guinea Pigs like to back up in to something
when they go to loo but this is not the case with all, as
only Nutmeg shows this behaviour.
I keep my Cavies in the living room and they run on the floor,
I have found they actually go back in to their cage to pee.
They will leave pellets on the floor sometimes though but
they definitely like to use the cage to urinate. This is something
they started to do after a while with me. I think they are
now used to their surroundings and know where to find their
cage.
I have read online that Guinea Pigs do not climb
or jump. This is true to 3 of my pigs but Millie can jump
up four courses of brickwork. I have a small wall in my garden
and she can easily get on top of it. She also uses things
to climb up on to. So just be careful when you let your Guinea
Pigs get exercise.
I have found when the Guinea Pigs are in the
run on the grass they do not run around as much as they do
when I have them on the patio.
They get their most exercise in doors on carpet.
Out of options this seems to be their most favourite.
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