endless stream of guinea pigs

[marshymy]

I'm just curious.. a few years ago my sister got a pair of guinea pigs, she was told in the shop that she had to buy a pair as its cruel to keep a guinea pig on its own.

Fast forward a few years, one of the pigs dies. She doesn't want the remaining pig to be alone so she gets another pig, a year on the remaining pig also dies. Now she has the new pig that is on its own so she's just bought another one, this has led me to wonder.. is she going to be stuck in this guinea pig replacement cycle for ever more?

I was in this cycle a few years ago. I had three at one point and that was a good number but their numbers dwindled and I just didn’t want to keep the cycle going. The last pig was made of hardy stuff - I thought he was going to outlive me 😂 I just made sure I gave him loads of attention when it was just him and he seemed happy enough.

On a separate note, I’m pretty sure he was gay. My other boys went absolutely nuts, purring and wiggling every time they were near my brother’s female pigs but this boy didn’t care at all. I once accidentally popped him into the wrong hutch (just for a minute!) and he walked right past the girls to get to their food 😂 he much preferred humping the boy’s faces!

They are the least demanding members of our householdsmile

I tell people this all the time and they don't believe me. My 3 girls are sisters.

We had 2,one died. So the remaining girl seemed ok with family attention but I felt she needed piggy friends. So I went with the intention of getting a pair of baby girls to keep her company. Only there were 3 baby girls left... So I brought them all home.

My beautiful older pig died a year later. She'd been so wonderful with the babies, a proper strict headteacher - she kept them in line (I nicknamed them The Reprobates).

So now I have the 3 pigs and only one is friendly to us, but I don't care I loves them all.

An endless cycle of Guinea pigs is my idea of heaven 😂

@duvetdweller what on Earth do they do if they find out someone has a pig whose friend has died? Do they confiscate the pig?

@Throughthegate you can rent another Guinea from a rescue and then return it to them when your original pig dies

It's like the pet version of the Sugababes. Who is the original line up?

My cousin regularly had 19. Sometimes a few more sometimes one or two less.
She never had to cut her grass for 10 years. She had a beautifully manicured lawn, they were free rangers. Any plants had to be kept in pots as they’d have eaten them as well. When her lavender was in bloom, they used to stand on each other’s backs to eat it. I wish she’d got the photo.
She had to give them all away when she moved to an apartment, but she’s back in a house further up from her old one..so I wonder if she’ll start collecting them again.

Was so funny when she started to chop vegetables in the kitchen, then all come down their little walkway from the garage into the garden chirping away..as they do.
They only live about 4 years though and she always lost a couple over winter.

My cousin turned her garage into the guinea pig room. Was lovely watching them in summer all munching away at the grass.
We went to the health store in Cardiff where they used to make fresh juice. She saw them emptying the slops into a bag and when she found it just got thrown away asked if she could have it for the piggies.
We carried a big sackful each back to the car. Dh was not amused .
Bet the piggies thought they’d died and gone to heaven, all that fruity, veggie waste all mushed up so they could easily eat it,

It’s like Trigger and his sweeping broom. Replacement handles, replacement heads

I don't think we'll have this problem. Ours are so different I can't believe they are brothers.
One of our males loves people, the other one hates anything and everything that isn't eating, sleeping or sulking. He barely tolerates his brother, despises us and is the grumpiest guinea git you can ever imagine.(unless he is being fed, and then he LOVES you, obviously )

If People Lover goes first, Grumppig will have the solitude he so desires and I will chat to him and hand feed him until he's sick of me. If Grumppig goes first then People Lover will be carried around and cuddled all day.

I'm jealous of the free roaming garden pigs. We put ours in a pen outside on warm days and even then the neighbourhood cats come over to have a good look. They'd be history if we let them out. Cats or seagulls, doesn't bear thinking about

bananahood that ready made me laugh about the sugababes! I love guinea pigs and sadly only have one at the moment, but her previous owner assured me that she much prefers being on her own. She seems happy enough living in the conservatory, and she certainly makes me happy because she is so cute.