Guinea Pigs

How about Zuni Fetishes - they are small, clean interesting and going to the Navaho Nation makes them fun to buy.

Derek

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But can you feed a Zuni Fetish with bits of lettuce? First, I need some livestock for these things to protect. . . .

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Originally posted by Alex S.:
small, manageable ... they talk, don't sleep all day long, like being stroked and don't drop dead when you look at them.

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There are several forum members who'd qualify ...

No need to feed them, just dust them down when they get dusty

Derek

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Simple, easy to look after and they don't answer you back like the wife and kids



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NB

Alex,

Surely a nice middle class chap like yourself should own horses?

If you want guinea pigs you need at least two as they don't thrive alone. I think most of them tolerate being stroked rather than actually enjoy it.

Go to a pet shop, buy a book written by an expert.

Steve B

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Simple, easy to look after and they don't answer you back like the wife and kids

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So how do they answer back then?

Steve, sound advice - I was thinking of getting 3. I wanted a little knowledge before venturing into Pets'R'Us in case I get lumbered with 2 beligerent males and a female when what I want is three females, although I understand the babies are born as mini-adults instead of blind worms; which is nice.

Markus, we don't allow My Little Ponies in the house, thank you.

They're very popular in Peru, apparently:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/super_guinea_pig/

-- Ian

Ian, how did you know I was wondering what they'd taste like? I was thinking Spatchcock.

Alex,

Guinea pigs can talk, but I doubt you'll understand what they're saying... unless eeeeeep, eeeeep, eeeep means something to you.

Joe

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unless eeeeeep, eeeeep, eeeep means something to you.
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Sounds just like the wife and kids LOL



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NB

sorry the kids go "whinge whinge whinge!"



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NB

Chipmunks ?

I had a guinea pig once. But before that I had a male rabbit called Muffey.

Well Muffey was a little bored with life so I got him a Guinea pig friend.

The guinea big got very sick because of all the shagging it got (it was a male guinea pig) and all the hair on its back fell out.

I never got another guinea pig.

I never got another rabbit.

The good news is my pet rabbit was my first and my mothers maiden name is Smith, so my porn name is 'Muffey Smith.'

Excellent.

Alex we recently did the guinea pig thing. The pigs were bought from an extremely strange lady in Herfordshire who specialises in rescuing them from pet shop horror (while clearly mad she breeds and chooses the animals very carefully) . We needed a fox proof hutch (bought at vast expense from some chancer on the Caledonian road), a run (6x8' wire cage), plenty of hay and old newspaper; they appear to eat everything grass, parsley, cabbage etc and we were supplied with a good guinea housekeeping guide. Although ostensibly bought for two of the kids the eldest (girl 7) looks after them and loves it, mucking out etc. I suspect it's pony club for us middle classes with 10 foot gardens in London. At the outset of the project I refused to dispose of the bodies anticipating mayhem but it's been a huge success.

John

Gizmogirl, please tell me a little more about this 'run' I'm supposed to build. Won't a nice big 2 storey hutch do?

Gary, I've had dire warnings about how unideal bedfellows rabbits and guinea pigs are. . . apparently, rabbits kick like a mule and can take poor piggy's head clean off.

Nick, 'Eeek, that's some pair of earings'.

John, You fill me with hope. I gave the joyous news to Anya last night and her first, encouraging words were: 'Bugger off!'.

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Apparently, they talk, don't sleep all day long, like being stroked and don't drop dead when you look at them.

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My cat qualifies then.

He talks a lot ("Mjaau, Mrauuu" and words like that, it's quite easy to understand that most of the time he talks about food).

He doesn't sleep during the days as he likes to be outside then. Well, he likes to be outside most of the time, but as he is from a good family he's not allowed to be out during the night. God know's what he might learn then from other, not so well kept, cat's!

He's a cat, so he likes being stroked.

And he tries to make med drop down dead by looking at me. So far without any success...

JohanR

Good point, Johan, but Anya's allergic to cats (apparently GP's are hypo-allergenic) and I just don't like them.

I was hoping to have my hutch well off the ground. Do Guinea Pigs make good jumpers, so to speak?

I think that the difficulty of house-training a rodent counts against this idea (though I did meet a technician once who claimed she managed this with her pet rat).

Are we talking of apartment or house dwelling? In the latter case a cat or small dog may be more rewarding for the family, while having some freedom outdoors. Unless any children present have asthma, in which case forget the pet.

Nick

Nick,

I've got the usual 10 foot London garden. I was hoping the piggies could live in their hutch outside (hopefully without converting the whole garden into a piggy paddock). I'm now reading some who say its too damp in the the UK in winter and the little piggies will rot. . .

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Do Guinea Pigs make good jumpers, so to speak?

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I'm not sure, but I think you'd need a lot of guinea-pigs to make a jumper

We have Harry, the goldfish. He looks fairly benign but any soulmates we try to introduce disappear without trace. Really one did, the others just float about a bit and then pong. Even Harry had a bit of an escape when my two year old emptied 10 years worth of food into his swamp in one shot without telling us. Excess fish food seems to rot ecosystems within seconds; please don't tell me what's in goldfish food.

.... the food will rot to produce ammonia and nitrates that are poionous to fish.

Try keeping marines - that's an ecosystem to keep balanced !