Where do you indoor guinea pigs get their exercise?

[millimat]

Ours are inside atm. Their hutch is a decent size but is like them to have a chance to properly run around like they would in the garden.
In our old house we let them run in the kitchen but our new house is wooden floors and they're not impressed. They just freeze.
Do you have make shift runs for yours?

What is this oddly notion you have that guinea-pigs exercise ? My Lardy Sow will send you a bar of carbolic soap forthwith to wash your mouth out !

We had our GP6/GP7 in a huge C&C indoors with a hay area , tunnel, cardboard box . They pootled about happily going from bowl to hay to tunnel.
As long as they can mosey in and out of boxes and hunt down food , they will keep themselves busy .
It is lovely to see a piggie popcorn in the grass when they have their first grazing session

Now we have just GP7 , we've given her the plastic based cage (its 4'x2' ) and she has a tunnel and hay pile with a cover over half .

I'm planning on giving her a C&C run downstairs for day time (she's in the small bedroom at the moment , there's no door on it and DD is usually in her room) .
She's only been alone for a week so I don't want too much change for her just yet.

She will just sit still on hard floors too, they don't seem to like laminate or tile.

In the Summer , I'm going to put the rabbit hutch in the run (rabbit hutch has no legs ) so she can go out when we're home . I;m not putting her in the Pighouse on her own.

GP7 is the last of our pigs and I wouldn't want to risk a PigMate. She didn't like GP4/GP5 , used to chase GP8 (her cagemate) sometimes and only allowed GP6 to marry her when GP8 died (and I was dubious if she'd let him but they settled fine)

Our two pigs have a 1.20m cage, and most of the time we have a C&C run put up right against the cage so that they can hop in and out as they please. The extra run is roughly the size of a single mattress (I use a waterproof mattress cover as the bottom of the run). I've just discovered that they seem to really enjoy running on towels, so I've put down a towel on top of the mattress cover, and a lot of popcorn ing has been taking place since then
We have various home made cardboard tunnels, some with various exits, which they love running in and out of.

My 2 have a c&c cage mostly. It's a 4 by 2, so it's a reasonable size and has a loft. Tbh the runs I see on sale for guinea pigs and the runs my friends have, ours have more space. They just don't have grass.

We don't have a lawn, so ours are indoor piggies all year round. They come out into the living room for a few days at a time and live on a fleece blanket with incontinence pads underneath, in 2 metal indoor runs joined together.

Mine generally have plenty of space, but prefer to lol about eating whatever they can convince people to feed them. They have DH wrapped round their little piggy fingers and he is the reason they are fat.

Lady Daisy doesn't mind our laminate. She pootles about the kitchen to-ing and fro-ing for food or just to inspect the humans from her special teatowel under the rocking chair. When she has enough she jumps on my feet and does her loudest wheels.

Wheeks

Ours are given the utility room to 'exercise'. Their cage during the winter is in there.
We put an old fleecy blanket down, their large tunnel and an igloo. I always hope they'll run about and Ness will let off steam.

What generally happens is that they might walk across the blanket (if the mood moves them' but then only to go sit together squabbling in the tunnel.

Ness has proved to be a nightmare in the utility, when young she disappeared behind a floor to ceiling cupboard (DH was NOT amused😂) and this Christmas she was missing for 45 minutes, until found in a wellies that had fallen on its side. Oh what fun we had trying to prise her out of the toe end in which she was squashed and adamant she was staying 😂😂

We used to take ours out of the cage for "exercise", before realising that it was futile; we'd plonk them on the floor and they'd just sit there looking petrified.
All our piggies have been indoors. They go outside in the summer if it's warm enough. I remember putting piggies #3 and #4 on grass for the first time several years ago and they had no idea what was happening! #2 pig (who was left after #1 had to be put down, and had been on grass before) started eating the grass right away. I had to pick 3 and 4 up and physically feed them grass so they understood what grass was Now we just have #5 and #6, they weren't as daft as 3 and 4. They are definitely our most nervous pigs we've ever had, most of the time they're on grass they just huddle next to each other looking like they'd rather be anywhere else.

Millie would like it known that at the grand old age of nearly 8 years old excerise is very over rated. She considers it exhaustion if she has to stretch her neck to reach food. Eating is an aerobic excerise requiring a short nap preferably on soft fleece.

Ours are in my daughter's room and the spare room. The boys have a run about the size of a mattress (lined with a mattress protector) and the girls have a large rabbit run - lined with shower curtains. They never go outside.

Awww Millie looks knackered

GP7 has been threshing about her layers of bedding , making little secret pig tunnels in the newspaper .

What sleep inducing food is MIllie eating ? Celery uses more calories to digest than it contains so she could be eating her way to a shadow !

That could be why 70, she does like her celery. As this is a post lap time nap my guess is celery, parsley or one of her special biscuits, they are very very chrunchy

Nowhere at the moment, if we put them out on the floor they just go and sit under the coffee table for a while and then go and sit back by the cage until we put them back. In the warmer weather they go out in the garden but apart from GP#4 (who died this morning) they just sit and eat the grass.

Oh no how sad to hear about GP #4

thank you toffee