Guinea Pig Cage Setup: Make an Enriching Home for Your Piggies

Guinea Pig Cage Setup: Make an Enriching Home for Your Piggies

Preparing for your first guinea pigs is so exciting, but can also be confusing. Everyone seems to have different opinions on what is required, what is optional, and how you should set up a guinea pig cage.

You want to have everything ready to go when your guinea pigs come home, and it’s so easy to forget the little things!

For a guinea pig cage setup, you’ll need bedding, water bottles or bowls, hiding places, and a guinea-pig safe hay. Optional things to include are food dishes, hay racks, a litter box, and toys. You’ll also want to make sure your guinea pigs’ cage is large enough, since most pet store cages don’t meet the minimum requirements.

In this article, we’ll discuss everything there is to know about guinea pig cage setup for beginners!

Guinea Pig Cage Size

The ideal size of your guinea pig’s cage depends on how many

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The misadventures of Sunshine, a community pig on the lam

Sunshine the pig

Illustration by Sam Island

Gregory Brown was a number of hours into his change at a golfing program in southwest Atlanta, much less than five miles from downtown, when something strange puttered down the road, just exterior the chain-hyperlink fence: a 150-pound, black-and-white pot-bellied pig. “We have deer and possums and even raccoons,” states the greenskeeper. “Never pigs.” Not below, in any case.

It was not complicated to coax her within the gate and away from passing automobiles, he says. “Everywhere I went, the pig was guiding me. I was in a cart, and she was adhering to me around.” At one particular point, players paused to take in the sight of a pig on the fairway near gap three, wherever she wandered a bit right before settling in for a nap. (“They ended up thrilled to see her.”) In truth, the pig was not a full stranger: Brown had

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