Reply to: Pets

[Grinder]

Oh - congrats, they are brilliant pets for smallish children.
Pogle jr has sole responsibility for her piggies, she feeds them and cleans them out, we do occasionally help her. They live in a massive cage in her bedroom and have a run in the garden for when its sunny. We also let them run free in the garden - its not very big and the piggies are too dumb to try and escape!
They love the garden and run round popcorning all over the place - very cute.
How many are you getting? - boys or girls?

When I was at school (many years ago) I looked after the class guineas one weekend and let them out in the garden. They shot off and dived under the fence and we thought we'd lost them but luckily my Dad was able to grab them.

Ours are 2 boys currently 5 weeks old - it will be a long week for us until collecting them! We started the hunt at the pet shops, but by chance ended up visiting an author & reknowned breeder of the red dutch variety.

Our 2 do not have the right markings for show stock, hence the sale. To be honest, I can't believe there are guinea pig shows - you just have to smile/laugh looking at them I wouldn't be able to take it seriously.

Nice big cage, http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/rodent...rat_cage/95868. And of course we have got an outdoor and indoor run to stretch their legs a bit.

[Pogle]

Guinea pigs here from next week. We are getting them for the children, however, I am pretty excited myself - they are very cute indeed.

Not that it needs justification, but there are further reasons I can readily think of - it will teach my 7 yo daughter some responsibility (at least for a week) and also in about 4 years time it will give her some idea what losing a loved one is like.

Oh - congrats, they are brilliant pets for smallish children.
Pogle jr has sole responsibility for her piggies, she feeds them and cleans them out, we do occasionally help her. They live in a massive cage in her bedroom and have a run in the garden for when its sunny. We also let them run free in the garden - its not very big and the piggies are too dumb to try and escape!
They love the garden and run round popcorning all over the place - very cute.
How many are you getting? - boys or girls?

[Grinder]

Has she not got any maiden great aunts or something? At least she'd get a few quid that way too?

Perhaps at some point in the next 10 years.

[Churchill]

Guinea pigs here from next week. We are getting them for the children, however, I am pretty excited myself - they are very cute indeed.

Not that it needs justification, but there are further reasons I can readily think of - it will teach my 7 yo daughter some responsibility (at least for a week) and also in about 4 years time it will give her some idea what losing a loved one is like.

Has she not got any maiden great aunts or something? At least she'd get a few quid that way too?

[Grinder]

Guinea pigs here from next week. We are getting them for the children, however, I am pretty excited myself - they are very cute indeed.

Not that it needs justification, but there are further reasons I can readily think of - it will teach my 7 yo daughter some responsibility (at least for a week) and also in about 4 years time it will give her some idea what losing a loved one is like.

[Drewster]

Dogs x 2
Cats x 5-7 (A couple have 1/2 adopted us)
Chickens x 10
Ducks x 4
Fish x a few
Bees x approx 40,000

HTH

Tulip.... I forgot the 8 Rabbits

[Pogle]

What do you expect? It's CUK! Try this forum

AWW cheers Mich
- that's a great site, full of adorable nitwits, potty about piggies.

[Board Game Geek]

What do you expect? It's CUK! Try this forum

I wonder which CUK'er is going to post on there asking for "recipes" ?

[Mich the Tester]

I was just preempting the fact that whenever I mention guinea piggies some chirpy bugger pipes up about the time they spent in South America and how yummy they were.

What do you expect? It's CUK! Try this forum

[Pogle]

Ok, takes through killing, skinning and jointing a Guinea Pig.

What colour should its viscerea be? Should we look for anything in particular as we eviscerate? Liver, kidneys, spleen etc?

I was just preempting the fact that whenever I mention guinea piggies some chirpy bugger pipes up about the time they spent in South America and how yummy they were.

I could not kill and eat one - but I have no problem with other people doing so.
My piggies are cute and make a special cooing noise when they see me

[Churchill]

Our Pigges co-exist quite happily with the moggies.
But when we got the kittens from the RSPCA, we insisted that they had to be kittens so that they'd grow up with the guinea pigs and be used to being around them. It seems to have worked.

And our Piggies are BIG BU99ERS too.
They make excellent first pets for children and if you get fed up of them I believe they're good on the barbie too

Ok, takes through killing, skinning and jointing a Guinea Pig.

What colour should its viscerea be? Should we look for anything in particular as we eviscerate? Liver, kidneys, spleen etc?

[Mich the Tester]

And our Piggies are BIG BU99ERS too.
They make excellent first pets for children and if you get fed up of them I believe they're good on the barbie too

They're the national dish in Peru; you can even get frozen guinea pig in the supermarkets there.

[Pogle]

Our Pigges co-exist quite happily with the moggies.
But when we got the kittens from the RSPCA, we insisted that they had to be kittens so that they'd grow up with the guinea pigs and be used to being around them. It seems to have worked.

And our Piggies are BIG BU99ERS too.
They make excellent first pets for children and if you get fed up of them I believe they're good on the barbie too

[Mich the Tester]

To be fair, that is a ikkle kitten and a big f**k off Guinea Pig!

WHS. Give them 6 months together and it'll be one big f**k off cat and half a guinea pig.

[Churchill]

Well it just might work out...

http://data.tumblr.com/utlGgzKOrd059fo0ts1RnsDs_400.jpg

To be fair, that is a ikkle kitten and a big f**k off Guinea Pig!