Are my guinea pigs, daft or just still very young?

[ItalianLady]

I have brought them in as it is cold and we have snow. I went out yesterday and bought a hanging chewy thing for them. They are biting their plastic hidey hole .

[Goingspare]

They are guinea pigs. They will eat the inside of their hutch instead of a thoughtfully-provided apple bough and if you give them a lovely cardboard box to sleep in, they will chew both sides diagonally from the bottom up until it overbalances and falls on their heads (our 4 year-olds achieved this recently).

Don't bother to buy anything special for them to chew; a cardboard tube from a kitchen roll stuffed with hay will probably provide more thrills than they can cope with.

[ItalianLady]

They would swallow the cardboard though?? Is that okay?

[Goingspare]

Yes, it's fine as long as it's plain card - no ink or shiny finish.

[ItalianLady]

Kitchen roll tube should be fine then, thanks.

[maize]

Guinea pigs are lovely but dim so that's to be expected. Mine nibble everything they can get their mouths on!