Guinea Pigs

you take it to the vets. when its nails are long

The western part of the island of New Guinea is Irian Jaya.

Anorexia (not eating or eating very little) is extremely serious and requires veterinary diagnosis and treatment. A cavy you have just brought home that is not eating may have a respiratory or other bacterial infection.

If your guinea pig has Anorexia, go to the vet immediately.

For more information and symptoms of Anorexia go to: http://www.guinealynx.info/anorexia.html

Sometimes Guinea pigs chatter their teeth to display anger. If a guinea pig is chattering its teeth, that usually means it is feeling territorial or upset. If your guinea pig does this to another guinea pig, separate them. Careful, sometimes tame guinea pigs can become aggressive while chattering, and will bite.

Even though I don't have any experience with guinea pigs, if I use a dog as a reference, I'd bet it much for the same reasons as your guinea pig.

Dogs have wet noses because that's part of their respiratory system, in that the wet nose provides your pet a way to cool themselves internally. Most dogs have cold, wet noses and that's normal. If a dog's nose is dry and warm, most likely it's running a bit of a fever.

I don't know if a guinea's nose is also supposed to be cold, but I'd take a wet nose as a good sign until I found out more. You could call a vet and ask what a guinea's nose should feel like. Cold? Wet? Warm or dry? Most vet's have guineas as part of their regular patient list and they'd probably have a much better answer than I can give you. (Besides, I don't think they'll charge anything to answer that question for you. At least I don't think they should.)

Here is an answer from another contributor: A wet nose is normal, just be sure she doesn't have dried mucus around her nose.

Yes.

It takes 2 or 4 weeks for it to settle in just show it around.

yes! its very important to remove them if you think she is pregnant, or already is. he could cause her to much stress, and may attack her. also when the babies are old enough to not have milk from mamma (depending on the baby, but ushually 3 weeks) separate boys from girls.

Easy! A Guinea Pig makes a burrow and will find little bits of staggly grass or hay lieng around and then would take thyem along and cover them selfs with it. But they like to make a deep hole in the ground and then start to go up abit so incase there was a flood the Guinea Pig would not be harmed easily. Hope this helped! :)

If you're lucky you can survive up to 3-4 days without water.But usually it's 2-3 days.

With water intake and doing no heavy physical a man can survive 30 to 80 days ,People of the Jain religion undergo fasting and fasting for a period of 8 days is very common in them.

you need to look between her legs and see if she has a female or male bottom, search on the internet 'sexing a guinea pig' and something helpful should come up, showing you how to tell the difference. Hope this helps

first u bend the grids next place blanket or some type of hard materialor just go to a store and get 1 like homdepot just get a gutter pipe and attach fleece to it.

Ermmm... Yes but they prefer vegetables. Bacon isnt exactly the greatest food for them. Many guinea pigs may not eat it. Plus in a way it just seems like canabalism...

They could be put into a cage together.

However, if there is a female guinea pig in the cage with them, that's not a good idea.

As they get older they tend to get more aggressive.

petco, petsmart, or any other large pet department store.

Their scientific name is Cavia porcellus (meaning "little pig") in the family Caviidae and thus are called Cavies, which is more of their formal name.

No, guinea pigs tend to stick to fruits and vegetables.

i have a guinea ig and r u trimming them or werer they lready cut, cause if they dont get cut, they will curve ad grow into their toe

You can get them at a few places. You can get them at a breeder. You can stop at a pet shop. Most pet shops have these animals for sale.

8-10 (In 2 years) Or 20 litters there life time but there is a risk of her dying or becoming sick or babies being retarted

NO , please do not do this.

you only give guinea pigs milk if you have to like if the mother has rejected it and it is under 4 weeks of age. but if your guinea pig is over 4 weeks of age, then you have no need to feed it any sort of milk at all. But if your guinea pig is under 4 weeks and it's mother is no longer with it, pure goats milk is the best for it.

Hope this helps.

Hello,

Guinea pigs are very sensitive to different sounds and can hear way better than any human. If there is any sound that is loud to you it will be miserable for it. When you ask if a TV can damage your guinea pigs hearing, it can only do so if the TV's volume is loud. The sound may not damage her hearing, but can be very unpleasent and disturbing to your guinea pig. My suggestion would be for you to put your furry friend in a quiet non-drafty room isolated from all noise. That's the best way to go, but just remember that A loud noise to you is a VERY VERY LOUD noise to your poor pet. GOOD LUCK!

AnnaLee

If guinea pigs go off their food it could mean that they are seriously sick. Try to feed them fruit and vegetables. If they eat that it could mean that they are bored of their food. If they don't eat, bring them to the vet.

It just depends how old it is n if it is use to you i guess you really wont know until it does