scorrie
15-Dec-14, 23:35
My wife and I were delighted to give a new home to Herbie the six week old Guinea Pig.
Herbie has settled in really quickly and was able to go into the playpen with our other Guinea Pig Buddy, who is three years old, on his second day with us. They have accepted each other with no problems at all and I was able to join their two cages via a home made tunnel after a week, which allows them to sleep together or separately, as they wish.
Herbie is a very vocal Guinea Pig and when he makes a lot of noise Buddy always comes to him to see if he is OK. Herbie follows Buddy around most of the time and he is copying things that Buddy likes to do. They have been moved down from the attic room and have a different shaped playpen now, which partly runs under the tables their cages are kept on. There is a small "hurdle" between the tables and they are already doing laps of the pen and jumping the hurdle on their way round.
Still a bit shy with us, Herbie is coming out of his shell more every day and getting more confident. He looks really happy and does a lot of pop-corning, where he jumps off the ground his own height with excitement. He is eating really well and when we weighed him last week he had put on 80 grams in weight from the previous week. I am hoping to combine two bigger cages for them when we are confident that they are settled long term and this will give more space for Herbie when he's a big boy like Buddy.
Here are a couple of photos:-
Playing Trains going into the tunnel:-
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/scorrie57/herbie007_zpsc6025caa.jpg (http://s73.photobucket.com/user/scorrie57/media/herbie007_zpsc6025caa.jpg.html)
Where's my dinner, I'm starving?:-
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/scorrie57/herbie003_zps37c90db5.jpg (http://s73.photobucket.com/user/scorrie57/media/herbie003_zps37c90db5.jpg.html)
Thanks to Mop Top!
Herbie has settled in really quickly and was able to go into the playpen with our other Guinea Pig Buddy, who is three years old, on his second day with us. They have accepted each other with no problems at all and I was able to join their two cages via a home made tunnel after a week, which allows them to sleep together or separately, as they wish.
Herbie is a very vocal Guinea Pig and when he makes a lot of noise Buddy always comes to him to see if he is OK. Herbie follows Buddy around most of the time and he is copying things that Buddy likes to do. They have been moved down from the attic room and have a different shaped playpen now, which partly runs under the tables their cages are kept on. There is a small "hurdle" between the tables and they are already doing laps of the pen and jumping the hurdle on their way round.
Still a bit shy with us, Herbie is coming out of his shell more every day and getting more confident. He looks really happy and does a lot of pop-corning, where he jumps off the ground his own height with excitement. He is eating really well and when we weighed him last week he had put on 80 grams in weight from the previous week. I am hoping to combine two bigger cages for them when we are confident that they are settled long term and this will give more space for Herbie when he's a big boy like Buddy.
Here are a couple of photos:-
Playing Trains going into the tunnel:-
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/scorrie57/herbie007_zpsc6025caa.jpg (http://s73.photobucket.com/user/scorrie57/media/herbie007_zpsc6025caa.jpg.html)
Where's my dinner, I'm starving?:-
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/scorrie57/herbie003_zps37c90db5.jpg (http://s73.photobucket.com/user/scorrie57/media/herbie003_zps37c90db5.jpg.html)
Thanks to Mop Top!