Decorating Your Guinea Pig Cage
TranslationYou take care to decorate your home with things you love, but what about your guinea pig’s home? Not surprisingly, guinea pigs love soft, comfortable accessories just as much as we do! Providing your guinea pig with nice bedding and accessories doesn’t mean you have to cut out functionality or affordability. Looking to spruce up [...]
Challenges in Guinea Pig Cage Design
TranslationVeranda is a magazine about home design and interior decorating and while they might know a lot about style, we would like offer some assistance when it comes to guinea pigs. In a note posted on their Facebook page in January, Dara Caponigro, Editor in Chief of Veranda magazine revealed she had seven guinea pigs. [...]
Bring Home Canadian Comforts for Your Small Pets
TranslationCanadian Comforts, creators of homemade pet bedding for small animals, was officially launched in May 2011. Being relatively new had its ups and downs. Most people had never heard of me, but at the same time were willing to give me a chance. In the beginning, I had no idea how to sew. Really it’s [...]
Guinea Pig Safe Interior Design
TranslationYou went out of your way to design a home in good taste but that was before someone was around to actually taste it! Don’t worry. Piggy proofing doesn’t need to be ugly. We’re here to help you. Dropping cables behind the wall or snaking them under carpet might seem like obvious solutions, but this [...]
Cavy Cozies Raises Money for UK Rescues
TranslationA UK fundraiser has raised thousands of pounds for small animal rescues by making and selling her own cavy cozies and other guinea pig fleecey items. The project was started in December 2009 when pro-rescue animal lover Pollie wanted to raise some money for a chinchilla rescue based in Leeds, UK. She advertised the cozies [...]
Constructive Cage Ideas for Holiday Safety
TranslationKeeping your guinea pigs safe this holiday season doesn’t need to be a stressful issue if you prepare in advance. Guinea pigs, or any pet for that matter, should never be given as a gift during the holidays. If travel is part of your holiday plans, please find qualified pet sitters well in advance. However, [...]
Ten Tips for Winning A Pet Voting Contest
TranslationWith Halloween contests over and the holidays approaching, this time of year holds many opportunities for pet owners to enter a variety of online contests. Often the contests are a combination of most votes and silent judging. Many complain about how the winner is often as a result of a popularity contest and not hard [...]
Breaking the Seasonal Blues
TranslationIt’s that time of year again. Vacations are over. The kids go back to school. You go back to work. And while it might seem like a shock all over again to get used to the routine after being away from it for a time, it might also feel this way to your guinea pigs. [...]
Toys, Treats and Other Fun Things
TranslationSince so many commercially available toys and treats aren’t appropriate for guinea pigs, what are good options to enrich their lives? Fortunately there are many things you can give your pigs that are (relatively) safe – and many are items you probably already have around the house. Your pigs will love their new things and [...]
Pigjes Rock This House
TranslationMany cavy owners believe a home just isn’t a home without a guinea pig. That certainly is the case for Karine Jans and her cozy herd. In her abode, the guinea pigs are the main feature. Karine combines fleece, toys, and houses together in innovative ways to create stylishly themed cages that are the centerpiece [...]
