how best to get dog used to new guinea pigs.

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baby guinea pig are arriving at mine in about 2 weeks.

Ive a soft old lab who while he wouldnt hurt a fly and is generally not interested in anything, has a bit of a love of small and furry things.

As in he just likes to sit and stare at them all day long, occassioanly making a whine type noise.

So, ive had the hutch up for a few weeks, so hes used to that and it goes without saying he will never be left alone anywhere near them. but what else can i do for him to not be freaked out by them, or help him not get too obsessed with them.

( have looked after small furrys before for people and he just tends to get a bit obsessed with looking at them)

As I type my collie is down the garden obsessively staring at the guinea pigs, she doesn't do anything except stare and run round to whichever side of the run they are nearest to. they ignore her.
I don't know what she would do if they got out, I think she would stare at them and then probably bite them to make them move like she does with sheep! However it might be a bit more serious with a guinea pig.
I don't have much useful advice TBH, my spaniel takes absolutely no notice of the rabbit or the guinea pig so your dog could turn out not to be very interested in caged furries. I can only suggest that you simply tell him 'no' if he starts to run around or obsess over them, he should get the message that he is not to do it.
Guinea pigs are so sweet when they are babies...

I can't offer any help as my dog killed 2 of our guinea pigs last summer. She didn't maul them or rip them apart - they looked perfect, but one was a little wet so had obviously been picked up. It was just one of those accidents. In the summer hols - I had told children not to let dog out of her crate as gps in the run, but someone forgot and let her out.

Personally, I would never get guinea pigs with a dog. We already had the gps when we got our pup. She met them when young, but was always obsessed with them. She would charge around the run making a funny noise and nothing we did could distract her. When they were in the hutch she took no notice of them.

We have one left. He is only put in the run for an hour or so a day and at that point dog is shut in her crate.

When I was young we had a Collie that got on very well with my brother's guinea pig, which spent a lot of time in the house wearing a little nappy made of a tissue and two clothes pegs. We put the good relationship down to the fact that guinea pigs and dogs both do the bum sniffing thing to greet each other, and perhaps Bob thought Guinea ( imaginative names in our family!) was another dog.