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My guinea pig is such a porker!

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MrsL123 · 10/01/2010 16:54

After all the worry about the cold, we went to Pets at Home today to get her one of those plastic igloos for inside her hutch. Whilst we were there, I saw a log cabin for guinea pigs, so I thought great - it's wood so it will be warmer than plastic, and she can chew it safely. Got it home, and the little porker is too fat to fit in it! She can't fit through the door, so I took the roof off it and she can just about fit inside without any bedding around her! So I've just filled it up with hay and she's perched on top of it like a cabin bed lol!

I'll have to go back tomorrow and get her an igloo as originally planned, and I'll just fill the cabin up with grass and use it as a glorified hay rack next to their food bowl. And the roof will be going in the rabbit run to be chewed. Thankfully it's completely edible! It said it was for guinea pigs and dwarf rabbits, so I thought it'd be fine size-wise as she's not exactly huge. Obviously she's still carrying some christmas weight!!!

The rabbits also got a new bed today, but their's is a fleecy dog bed, one of those 'doughnut' ones with the soft sides and the cushion on the bottom. The boy rabbit wasn't too impressed when we first put it in, I don't think he realised it was a bed and thought we'd just blocked up his favourite sleeping place. The first thing he did was pick it up in a huff, dragged it over to the other side of the hutch and then lay down in the gap in protest. Once we put it back and made him sat in it, he soon realised it was actually very comfy, and when I left him he was happily snoozing away in it. He'd completely flopped out in it so there was no room left for the girl rabbit, but I'm sure she'll soon sort him out!

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FernieB · 11/01/2010 11:39

My rabbit had a fleecy dog bed last year, but it died (bed not rabbit) - she chewed it like mad. Now she has an old towel by the radiator which she seems to like just as much.

The wooden houses do tend to be on the small side - our rabbit does not fit in any rabbit sized one and she is not huge. Hope your piggie enjoys her igloo.

123andaway · 11/01/2010 14:54

We have those log cabins for the piggies. Our biggest (and stupidest) piggie keeps going in through the window. His front half goes through, but his back half doesn't fit!!! He then sits there and squeaks until he remembers he has to go back out the way he came!!

MrsL123 · 11/01/2010 19:52

At least ours knows her limits

I put the igloo in tonight and she's not too sure about it yet, she curled up behind it in a pile of fleecy blanket I put in. I lined the igloo with a bit of fleece too, so hopefully she'll use it. I think the problem is I couldn't sort it out properly because it was dark, so I just had to chuck it in on top of about three inches of hay, and I couldn't get my hand in to hollow out a space inside for her or clear the doorway properly. I'll empty out the sleeping compartment on saturday and put it in properly. She seems to really like the fleece, just hope she doesn't eat it!

The rabbit's initial excitement about the fleecy bed has worn off, and they're now back to sleeping in the old cardboard box I put in for them. He'd tried to move it out the way again, so I think I'll take it out tomorrow and just put a fleecy blanket in instead. Looks like the cats will be getting a new bed

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