Yes Guinea Pigs can be bathed just like dogs. You need to keep your Guinea Pig clean, although they are clean animals to begin with.
It’s not necessary to bathe your Guinea Pig too often, every few months will do. If you do it frequently you can dry out their skin too much.
Here’s how you bath your Guinea Pig. Have a towel handy, a good bowl to bath him in, some gentle shampoo, say baby shampoo, and a hairdryer if it’s going to be cold.
You can use the hairdryer but only on the gentlest setting, and only after towel drying your guinea pig first. If the hairdryer is too hot for your skin it’s too hot for his.
Water warm but not hot. Don’t get his face wet, it’s not necessary.
Here’s a good collection of videos that give you some tips on Guinea Pig care.
Of course there’s always differences of opinion about Guinea Pig care, but there’s some good general principals.
One slightly contentious subject is washing your Guinea Pig. Some people suggest that you shouldn’t give your Guinea Pig a wash/shampoo more often than once a month or so as it dries out their skin. Some others though suggest every week.
Like everything it’s a case of seeing how things work for you.
We just love pictures of Guinea Pigs. Our own Guinea Pig is a cutie, but there’s so many out there we just had to put this one up here. We love how their ears droop.
We have just built our own Guinea Pig hutch because our daughter has got her own Guinea Pig now. Piggies name is Charlie, and he’s a cutie as well.
It wasn’t all that difficult but it has to be said that we started with a shed that was already there, so it was a matter of just modifying the shed.
We had to make sure that there was a good door on the new shed/hutch. It needed plenty of light to get through so Charlie wasn’t in the dark, so we made it with a large cutout in the door, but we also had to make sure that a fox couldn’t jump through the cutout.
That was achieved using chicken wire on the back of the door to cover the hole. No foxes for Charlie now.
Charlie now has the biggest hutch to run around in that he’s ever had. We got him from a friend who breeds Guinea Pigs and he used to be in such a small Guinea Pig cage before. Read the rest of this entry
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