Poppy
Cavia porcellus
All black, and six. Came home with Lady from a chain pet shop. She has two settings: asleep, or up against the bars wanting your attention.
Still gives the other pigs the runaround. Out in the summer pen a few weeks ago, she was jumping clean over one of their houses.
We've since upped our pig game: the herd gets a good deal more than the chain shops' advice suggests, and it now grows by rescue and rehoming only.
The pigs live indoors through the colder months and spent the summer in a home-built pen on the grass. The pen has since come down and is being recycled.
Tinks spends as much time with the pigs as she can. It is not what you think: Tinks is built differently.
- Common name
- Guinea pig (black)
- Section
- Creatures
- Spot
- Indoors for the colder months; a pen on the grass in summer
- Soil
- Fleece and hay
- From
- A chain pet shop (came home with Lady), about 2020
- Age
- 6 years
- Next repot
- Twice a year: out for summer, in for winter
- Edible
- ❌ No. She does the eating.
- Garden-centre price
- Paid in peppers
Did you know?
In Switzerland it is against the law to keep a guinea pig on its own.
Care & updates
- Observation
Added to the catalogue. Indoors for the colder months.
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Found on a Google image search.