to put the guinea pigs outside so I can have an armchair in the kitchen?

[Hippymum89]

Is it OK to put guinea piggies outside in the winter? They're in a proper hutch, but I feel a bit bad evicting them from the warm kitchen!
They could go upstairs in the junk spare room,
Would it be too cruel?

Outside is too cold for guinea pigs in winter.

If they're used to indoors, to put them out in midwinter is rather mean. Give them the spare room or forego your chair til summer.

I would wait until summer. Piggens are quite sensitive to the change in temperature, but it's also the damp weather that does them.

my rabbits are kept outside all year round and i bought some really soft hay from the garden centre which i stuff in so they have to make tunnels, didn't think guinea pigs needed to be inside, also it's really warm for january

yabu. Piggies aren't that robust.

Put them in the spare room. Mine were always inside in the winter months, in the summer they had the shed for night-times.

It would be a terrible shock to them in the winter. They might well die.

mine are still outside this year as it's been so mild here but I wouldn't have put them out now if they'd been used to being inside - poor things won't have grown a winter coat or be used to that level of cold. can you wait til spring?

Meanie, put them upstairs

OOOOK, Spare room it is, fully central heated
I certainly don't wnat to kill them!!!
Thank You all x

i agree, it's too cold.

plus, i'd be worried about foxes getting to them.

glad to hear it Hippy. They probably don't need the heating unless it gets really cold but they don't like cold drafts or damp.

Sorry, didn't mean to be alarmist. They can be quite sensitive to sudden change though.

Have you got a shed/garage? Agree that inside to outside in winter is a bit extreme, although would be fine to move them out in warmer weather then leave them there (shed/garage if extreme crappy weather tho).

I've always kept Guinea Pigs and Rabbits outside no matter what the weather and they've all lived to ripe old ages! Chuck em outside!

Inside, and preferably inside all year round. Guinea pigs need temperatures similar to humans. I wouldn't want to be put outside in mid-winter, however much hay you gave me.

I've always kept my guinea pigs outside all year round

Poor piggies! Mine come indoors from Nov to March....put them up in your spare room

mine live in the shed with a cover on them - outside proper is too cold this time of year x Buy a shed

buy a shed, don't like the thought of them in a kitchen TBH

Don't put them outside if they've not been out all autumn building up a winter coat.

(Having them in your kitchen sounds revolting though).