limie... Your pictures are so very blur. Got clearer ones? squint also I not sure. Try to pressure your GP's private part top a bit and see got penis pop out a not. Or can take clearer pict?

Where's this shop you talk about?

I saw an adorable Aby GP that's brown (like nescafe) and white with red eyes. At Pet Family just now. You bought your cage dy?

@Sharil: as expected comment from a male forumer.

This post has been edited by Jamien: Jun 26 2008, 11:19 PM

Air cond got ionizer ma. Or cover your window with mosquitoe netting lor.

The GP starter kits are up dy la Muchan. Go take a look lar. They're making the set with zoozone. Very good if you wanna avoid mess like in the shop.

Wah~ Lucky you~ If you want light-weight cage you cannot avoid the bersepah.... plus the small zoozone isn't very big also lar. You saw the size of the smaller zoozone?

The one will bersepah wan. Haha... But my GP won't simply throw food everywhere. Just the poo, dunno how, manage to kick out from the cage. Damn Terror.

That's good to hear limie. Most important is that they get better.

Guinea pigs are not smelly. Basically even if their body is oily, they still do not smell unpleasant. I still always hug my Micheri when she long didn't bathe. Won't smell like dogs or syrians wan (not to say that these 2 animals smell bad).

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Bathing, I do it once in 3 weeks. I clip their nails once in 2 weeks.

Hmmm... I would agree wif u. Hehe...

My sister used to live with 7 housemates. She had her GP there. No smell or anything and there was no one complaining. In fact, one of her friends got poisoned and had a GP herself.

Premium hay and any premium food. Gps have this absolute talents for picking out premium food...

You can bathe them with small animal shampoo or bunny bath. Don use those for dogs or cats. Too abbrasive for their skin.

Rumizu, congratulations! How's it feel to be a grand daddy?

Muchan.... Not yet even get your girl wanna think of hubby dy. You really like those ancient china parents la. XD

Muchan~ I just came back from Pet Wonderland in Midvalley. I saw the special color abbys you were talking about. Their so called spacial color is the ones with the fur tinged slightly with other colors. There's one there that kinda look like Jazz.

I told you to be careful! You fell in lov wif a boy jor. So how now?

Measure dy go home check lo. Bigger is always better ma.

I line with newspaper first then I put shavings. My Micheri has horrid drinking habits. She drink one mouthful and drips half a mouthful. But if I give her a smaller bottle she don want to drink. Sigh...

Not to mention sometimes pee or poo, the shavings can absorb the moisture properly. My house pets all need shavings anyway. 2 Syrians, 3 GP... Later 1 suggie.

I also notice that on warmer days, Micheri would just sleep on the newspaper. On cooler nights, she will sleep on top of the shavings.

I never use before lar so I can't really comment. But since you are using a zoozone, just put newspaper and shavings and make sure you toilet train them. It's such a big space, it won't get dirty so fast so long as you clean the toilet daily. My 2ft cage clean once in 2 or 3 weeks can, it would still be clean if I want to. Cuz Micheri is toilet trained.

Actually I'm trying to stress the importance of training your GP to use a toilet.

It's a hassle at first but in a long run it saves you tonnes of money, time and work.

You can try the woody and let us know how it works. Feedback is always appreciated. But do try to toilet train your GP k?

Welcome Welcome! So happy to know people who research before buying.

Hmm... I dunno about rabbit poo. But they're similar to hamster poo. Magnify the poo size of a syrian by about 5 times. That's how a GP poo will look like.

Hmmm... As I mentioned before, any cage that has bars on the top for ventilation (prevents heat stroke) and basically no wire bottom (to prevent bumblefeet) is good. A minimum of 2ft x 1ft cages. You can put toilet mat for them to stand on but I feel it's not necessary if you toilet train them. I think they use the wired bottom plus toilet matt so the poo will fall under the wired area. And it's probably more comfortable for them to walk on when it's a one pice plastic bottom.

It's one great bonus for GP owners since GPs are toilet trainable. Then you just clean the toilet tray every day and the rest of the area will more or less be clean.

Ask Sharil. Some of his babies go to petshops and they're beautiful~ His black beauty is now pregnant. Ask him save a baby for you lar.

Get a toilet tray that is different color from the food tray, etc etc that you don want him to pee on. GPs can see color so they can differentiate things using color. Just clean the cage thoroughly and pick a few of the poo poo put inside the toilet tray. When you play with your GP and put it back to pee, put it back in the tray and make sure the GP pee in the tray.

Training may take about 4 days to 2 weeks or even longer depending on the GP. So till then, you gotta pick up the poo and toss in the toilet and try to make it pee in the tray. They are rodents so they usually just pee and poo at one spot so it's just a matter of teaching them where to poo and pee. Also, sometimes they may miss timing and accidentally poo outside the toilet. Don't whack your GP for that lar.

Giving a treat when they pee or poo in the toilet also helps.

Eh? Who? I dunno de.

It's made from cloroplast. If cardboard then the cage will become soft when GP pee on it.

They can jump but not very high. So just make sure the cage is taller than your Gp's length from butt to shoulder.

I prfer this kind of setups really cuz it's cheaper, m ore spacious, got good ventilation and you can basically see your GP when you look over the cage.

Females ar. My house female GP are independant women. All independantly housed. Successful GPs. Can own their own house.

From what I know, 2 males can get along well as long as they don't have to fight for mating rights and the space you're putting them in isn't too cramped. If suddenly got a female, they will most likely fight no matter how close they used to be. They might also musth to mark territory. So theres the greasy smell.

But this is just knowledge I gained from reading since my house 3 GPs are all ladies.

Females are no more prone to loneliness than males. females are slightly smaller in size. not very likely to mark territory. '

I think both male and female are good, depending on how you house and care for them.

Muchan... All thing inside OF COURSE will heavy ma. The GP herself won't weigh little lor.

@limie: What carrier did you buy??? I just use the medium guppy tank as a carrier le.