Guinea Pig Bath Time! Lots of cute pics!

[Lion_Lop_Lover]

My 2 male guinea pig brothers Wyley and Stuart have a skin condition on their backs right now, and part of the treatment is lots of baths…heee hee…

So, here are some awfully cute pics of them from the other day:

STUART

Out now please?

I is trying to be a porky-pine!

I be wet.

Can I jump from here?

Maybe I can jump from here!

Awwww, I is nice and snuggly now!

WYLEY:

Do I look impressed?

No, no I am not.

 

 

[Beka27]

oh! thay are so cute! i love the captions…

[babybunsmum]

they’re so cute!  i love piggies wee feets

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Awww so cute!! I used to bathe my piggies too from time to time! Easier then bunnies I must say!!

[Lion_Lop_Lover]

Mmm, for sure K&K…they may struggle but they ain’t got anything on a rabbit!

[kimberleyanddarren]

aww so cute, i would love a guinea pig i have never had one, are they good fun like bunnies?

[Lion_Lop_Lover]

Eh, I’m not in love with them as pets. They do not really litter train and they pee and poop whenever they want (like on your lap) and they aren’t as…flexible…as bunnies, lol. Though the noises they make are adorable.

[Bunstheboss]

Oh God! They are adorable!!!!! Super cute!!!

[Hannah]

The lips in the first picture are my favorite part. Piggy ligs are *almost* as cute as bunny lips.

[RabbitPam]

Awww, wet piggies – sooo cute!

K&D,

I had 3 pigs growing up. 1st two were my brothers’ pigs, both males, Piddy and Geadimo. (My bother rescued the second from a girl he knew at school, who named him after her boyfriend Bill, in Latin.)
My pig was an albino named Harvey, who was a girl but I named her after the Pooka in the movie, and basically called her “Pig”.

They are not nearly as interactive and smart as bunnies. They are adorable and briefly cuddly, but pretty much stay in their cages or run under things and hide. They are a very nice pet for children because they can be picked up easily and held without being hurt, take easy daily care and weekly house cleaning. Not much else though. They responded to the sound of the fridge (squeeek!) and your voice or presence. I just loved them as a kid and Pig lived in my room. She would sit on my stomach contentedly and sometimes yawn in my face.

When you get grown up you get to have an amazing pet – a bunny!

[Deleted User]

Yes piggies can be kinda boring … I have two males.

They can be very smelly creatures … I clean out mine every second day as they are in their separate cages in the living area.  Tyson is my fav and he is very sociable but Micky is a disgusting dirty pig and extremely noisy creature … always biting the cage bars for food or attention.

I cannot have them housed together as they fight and nip each other and Micky is constantly trying to hump Tyson which Tyson hates.  They also spray an awful scent when they are together.  Usually Tyson ends up the stinky pig … he generally runs around the curtain to hide from Micky.

Yes, I would not get a piggy again … once these are gone … no More.

A bunny Yes of course … lol.

 

[kimberleyanddarren]

ok doesnt look like i would be getting one of them then hehe, anyone got a ferret? i have always wondered what they are like

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

I haven’t had a ferret but know people who have them…They just STINK because they eat meat; They also eat rabbits…Lets figure you a better pet K&D!! How bout another bunny?!

[kimberleyanddarren]

! they eat rabbits?!!! ! i didnt even know they ate meat i thought they were just cute little things like buns who ate lettuce ! im shocked!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Yes, I actually read on another forum, the boyfriends ferret got ahold of her rabbit….

Yeh, I’d steer clear of them, I believe they are related to weasels…Anyways some further reading if your interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret

[kimberleyanddarren]

i cant believe they eat rabbits? i cant believe i didnt know that!
wont be gettin 1 of them then hahaha

[Lion_Lop_Lover]

Yes, ferrets can take down a lot of small animals – they’re carnivores! Num num!

I never found them to smell badly, but you have to clean their litterboxes frequently because they #($* all the time because their digestive track is so short.
They are awfully cute and playfull!

[Hannah]

Kim&Darren, if you’re looking for an unbunny pet, but don’t want a piggy (I’ve never had one, so I can’t attest to their level of goodness) or a ferret (same there, but they do tend to be somewhat smelly and, well, they do eat small fuzzy things), have you thought about a chinchilla? I’ve been keeping chillas (only one at a time) since I was 8 (I.E., I’ve had two; they live a pretty long time) and they’re really sweet little things. I mean, they’re not as interactive as rabbits because they tend to be a bit shy, but they’re soft as heck and absolutely hysterical to watch hop around and generally be adorable. They’re also very clean; they bathe in volcanic ash and barely smell at all because they pee so little. (They’re from the Andes mountains, so… not big drinkers.) They also have a lot of the same needs as rabbits (in an emergency I have subsititued food for one for the other; I wouldn’t do it for long, but if you’re in a pinch it can a be very useful trick), so for a bunny-mommy there wouldn’t be much of a learning curve. They’re also (occasionally?) hypoallergenic; I wasn’t allergic to my first chinchilla at all (grey, female), but I am a bit sniffly around Baxter, my current chin (white, male). There’s also a big range of personalities; Charlee (first chin) loved being pet but not being held; she had terrible balance and slept in a very proper upright position; she loved raisins more than anything, and I would describe her as being a “common sense” sort of chinchilla. Baxter, on the other hand, is an enormous drama queen. When I first got him, I couldn’t even clean his cage because he refused to come out or be taken out; within under a year he’s become so tame that I can let him play in a chilla-proofed (read: bunny-proofed) room without worry, carry him around while he’s nibbling snacks in my hands, let him sit on my head or shoulders, scratch him under the chin and behind the ears, kiss him, squeeze him, etc. However, he HATES being pet or brushed (his fur sticks directly up, so stroking him is like petting a cat in the wrong direction), loves cereal and crackers MUCH more than normal chinchilla things like raisins, squeaks needlessly if you poke him anywhere behind his neck, sleeps flopped on his side like a rabbit, and often sits at the back of his cage with one paw up on the bars in a perfect “Woe is me, I have been forgotten and no one loves me” position. He even has little black fingernails. He’s my emo chinchilla.

Anyway, now that I’ve given you more information that you could possibly ever want, I shall stop typing.

[kimberleyanddarren]

aw thats so cool HJSoulma, i am not looking to get another non bunny pet at the minute, because i am due to move again in the summer so it really wouldnt be fair to them, but i am intending to do so within the next year or so, i have seen chinchillas around but had never really heard anything about them to be honest i didnt know they did anything but either sit their, or chew their bars like hampsters cuz thats all ive ever seen them do, i guess abit like people percieve rabbits.. just boring, im glad to know they arent really like that and i will look into it nearer the time! thanks for all the info HJSoulma!!

[Hannah]

No prob! They’re really funny little creatures (they even have their own form of binkying..!) and more chinchillas in good home is always a good thing. n___n

[kimberleyanddarren]

oh wow chinchilla binkies?! i would love to see that >.<

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Oh good suggestion on the chinchilas!! Also Degu’s are pretty cool too; At the zoo they have them together, so apparently you can put the two together!!

[kimberleyanddarren]

they sell Degus in petsathome (this really stupid major pet chain in the UK) and they always look lonely and sad in their tiny cages i always feel bad for them all they ever seem to do is chew the bars so they must be really stressed all the time.

[Hannah]

Degus are of dubious legality here (Massachusetts has *really* strict pet laws), but they’re actually close cousins to chinchillas. Their needs are almost exactly the same; they’re just not as fluffy. And chinchilla binkies are hysterical! I didn’t know about them until recently; now that Baxter is tame enough to catch easily, I let him loose in the bunny room and after some cautious hopping he starting running in circles and jumping all squiggly in the air. I was absolutely dumbfounded, because Baxter also “flops” like a bunny, and I was convinced that he spent so much time around rabbits that he had picked up their behaviors… but apparently other chinchillas chilla-binky, too!  I unfortunately don’t have any pictures of him “binkying” (a chinchilla is even harder to catch in a photo than a bunny. Not only are they quick, but cameras don’t really understand how to focus when there’s a giant fuzz-halo), but I have a picture of him cuddling (this is *bizzarre*– chinchillas don’t usually do this), flopped with his tail stuck out the cage, and looking at me like “why are you taking a picture of me eating, you jerk?” 

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