I am thinking if buying a guinea pig and I think I will let him play for 1-2 hrs supervised each day. I'm only worried about their droppings--I had a rabbit whose dropping were round and hard, easy to clean and practically odourless. Her urine smelt like ammonia though but she was good about going in one area. Are guinea pigs potty-trainable and if not--do their droppings mushy and wet or urine smell or hard to clean up?
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No, they don't smell bad, both the urine and poop. Actually, they don't smell at all unlike those of rabbits and hamsters' urine. Their poop are oblongish and not mushy and easily picked-up. It only gets rather wet when you give to many greens and few of the hay and pellets.
Guinea pigs are potty trainable if you have a lot of free time and patience. Their droppings are not mushy or wet unless they have diahreah. If they are healthy, their droppings will look like guinea pig food pellets and are easy to pick up and their urine doesnt really smell and its not hard to clean. To avoid all of that, put a mat down where they are playing and throw the mat out after. Its a disposable mat that you can find anywhere
I had a guinea pig for 3 1/2 years until she passed away. They will not potty train. In fact they eat their poop. It's some weird thing they do. If I remember right it has to do with the environment they came from originally. They ate it twice to get all the enrichment out of it as possible.
A healthy guinea pig's droppings are hard, like a rabbit's. Except guinea pigs produce a lot more because they never stop eating! Very few pigs can be potty-trained.
Don't buy a pig from a petstore if possible. They are often sick or pregnant (they can get pregnant at a month old) and you are supporting breeding mills. Check around for guinea pig rescues and your local shelters. See:
CraigsList
Petfinder.com
http://www.guineapighome.com/
Guinea pigs are herd animals, so you'll want a same-sex pair. A single pig is a lonely pig. You may say you can give it a lot of attention, but humans aren't the same as their own kind. Two pigs are not much more work or expensive to care for then one anyway.
Please read these too:
www.guinealynx.info
www.guineapigcages.com (petstore cages are almost always TOO SMALL
Guinea pigs are very hard to potty train, but that doesn't mean anything bad. The most likely will never "go" on you, and they may give a warning if they do by backing up and doing a few circle motions. Please adopt a pair from your local shelter, because they are naturally herd animals and do much better in pairs. Please educate yourself on cavies by looking at the following sites below:
if you got a guinea pig they them selfs smell
a little but not alot.
they squil ALOT!
there droppings are hard and
are much like hampsters but
a little different!
Guinea Pigs are practically smell free. They require very little other than love and a big enough cage to get some exercise. I think they're an ideal pet. We have one and love him to death.
I toilet trained my guineapig within a week.My pig does not poo wherever he wants .if he does he knows that he will get a good spanking from me.It does its toilet on a newspaper tray below its cage.BTW guineapigs are way cleaner than rabbits.
we have 2 piggies and they do not stink we clean there cage once a week :) I dont not think you can potty train it would be very hard and a lot of work good luck :)
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