My sister in AU, when summer time, the weather is reaching 40C, she gives her rabbits cold pack, and her rabbits would sit next to the cold pack.

I have not try this yet, may be this would be a good idea for our hot weather too.

When i had my other GP (i used to have 2, one died already), i had a dog too (also died last year due to old age, 13.5 years ), they are very used to the barkings and loud noises we made since we keep them in our living room. But one unfortunate day, it was raining quite heavily and the thunder actually scared them shitless. They hid in their makeshift tunnel, and my dad went to sayang them. He realised one of them are VERY scared and was shivering all over. So he sayang them by giving them veges, and realised one of the GP's hind legs suddenly paralyzed, cant walk towards the vege and was breathing very heavily. Took him out, and sayang him somemore, within 15 mins, no longer breathing. it's like the signs of stroke

These days when it's raining thunderstorm, my dad will make sure the other surviving GP doesnt get scared shitless.

Hmm....my GPs are housed outside some more....last night also got lots of fire works nearby until 3am. This morning my car was fulled of firework ashes...luckily my GPs and bunnies are all ok wor....

Btw, I do not provide hide-out for my GPs, they all are forced to get use to the environment. One thing I observed is, if you provide hide-out space for your GPs, they will forever scare and won't bond with you. Hehehe...my gps and rabbits are not afraid of my dogs. One of my dogs can open the GP cage door and eat up their food or their poos. I think my GPs get used to this crazy monster.

i hope yuki wont get scared with my 2 shih tzu .. ... later she scare of 2 huge long bulu monster

i too notice about this. at my bf's house's gps, i got give them a shelter since they were young and at my house's gps, i don't give them shelter. I will only make sure they got shade from outside and no contact to the rain if raining. And i notice that the gps at my house are more brave than the gp at my bf's house. Especially when bathing them. When i wan to bath the gps at my bf's house wan, they will keep shake shake, no matter how often i bath them but in the other hand, at my house gps don't shake at all, sometime i even thought they are dead because they don't struggle at all when i bathing them . They get use of the environment where my dogs and cats use to pass by everyday. and my bf's house don't have dogs and only have stray cats (very little).

So in the end, i only put hide out for my gps when it's play time. Especially those hideout that can pass through. they loves to run around the hideout

This post has been edited by chamyk2311: Feb 23 2010, 02:57 PM

i put small stool in the cage as Juztiny advice... he's still scared of me but its only for a while. remove it when i'm at home.. but see that he had fun jumping and running around it.

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Added on February 23, 2010, 4:46 pmFinally! Got my GP yesterday... wanna try with american short hair 1st(my bf love him!). if no problem later only try with other... thanks for lots of advice, Juztiny.

This post has been edited by intannor81: Feb 23 2010, 04:46 PM

You're welcomed to learn how to keep GP as a pet.


Just want to show you all the Brindle's baby is so healthy that the size is catching up with Ivory's baby. See the picture below. They all eating the same type of food, having the same father but the difference is their mother.

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hi Juztiny,

I am interested to purchase a (1) short-haired guinea pig from you, what is the price tag for an ordinary short-haired breed?

congratz Juz for the babies (sorry i'm quite outdated....) so long since my last visit here...so busy....

yeah the health n gene of the mother will give a strong influences on the babies condition and size, and wow Ivory's baby is huge compare to the other one~!!

tonite might take pics of my gps, wanna show how Alice is doing (the sheltie-like shebby i got from juztiny..) she's growing quite well, but her fur is not yet grow long like sheltie. its getting thicker yet the length progress quite slow. still she is very cute~! XD

The brindle really nice color

So far my GPs bonded with me quite well and the surviving GP is allowed to roam around the house sometimes. I guess it's how you interact with them

Ivory's baby take times to grow up ... while Brindle's one growing up faster o.O

just now i took a video on how i cuddle my 2 gps. they are so adorable and very tame. not scare with human at all. Oreo (black and white gp) loves aggresive cuddle... RAWWRR... while maruko loves soft cuddle.

P/S: Maruko makes alot of sounds when cuddling cuz maybe i'm not soft enough hehe >.< .... while Oreo loves it so much until he looks like dead @.@



This post has been edited by chamyk2311: Feb 24 2010, 12:23 AM

Sorry..I don't have any short-haired (american) breed of gps in my collection. I only have short-hair Abbysinian breed, but currently no babies available for sale.

my gp get dirty so fast @.@ the last time i bath them is on 13th. Ytd night i saw their body so dirty >.< So many poo poo on their fur, especially the white peru... i dunno how she did it lol!

This post has been edited by chamyk2311: Feb 24 2010, 10:05 AM

haha maybe she love poo poo ~~~ XD

Well..white color is very nice to see hard to maintain. Even my white Sheltie, 2 days after bathing the fur on the abdomen part already yellowish.

Either you need to bath them more often, or use fleece base with cat litter absorb the pee, may help to deter yellowish mark.

oh I see....i'll try that hehe Thanks

How much do you normally charge for a short-hair Abbysinian gp, if you happen to have some Abbysinian gps available for sale.

There is no short hair Abby XD a short haired GP is the ones that the fur is very smooth like. Aka~ common Guinea pigs.. perhaps u can ask these details to Juztiny via pm