The First Three Days
Bring your guinea pigs home and introducing them to their new living quarters is a rather important and also stressful time in the life of these little animals. After bringing your pet home you will, of course, be tempted to hold and cuddle them, thinking that this will comfort them as it would a baby or small child. However, doing this to a guinea pig who is in a strange, frightening location can cause them great stress.
Several days will be needed for your guinea pig to acclimate themselves to their new home. Take care to keep their environment as quiet and calm as possible without making any loud noises near the cage or in the same room as your pet.
Important Note:
You need to ensure that when you bring one or more guinea pigs into the house that they have a good area to hide - each guinea pig needs his or her own place, too, or a fight could break out!
Keeping Your Distance
Notice everyone in the family hovering around the cage? Watching the guinea pigs every move? Although cute and interesting, doing this is definitely going to scare the little guys!
To a guinea pig you may be a predator like a large bird ready to swoop down and gobble them up, causing them to be stressed and incredibly frightened. To watch your guinea pigs without making them nervous, slowly get down to eye level with them keeping some distance between you and the cage so they can see that you mean no harm.
Bribing Your Guinea Pig
The best way to get your pet to trust you is, without a doubt, bribery. Sound crazy? Perhaps. But it's true! Bribing the small animal that you want to love and adore is the best way for trust.
The best things to bribe with? Treats, of course. Because the guinea pig has so many things it loves to eat, you're going to have no shortage of bribing tools. Check out Chapter Five for more information on your guinea pig's favorite things to eat.
Best Bribing Ways?
Are you ready to begin bribing your new guinea pig to make them trust and accept you?
Begin by showing the treat you have for your guinea pig to them and then placing it by the open cage door. Now wait just outside the opening of the cage, hands in lap and sitting quietly.
After a certain amount of time, if he hasn't taken the treat, carefully and slowly pick it up again, close the cage door, and leave. Try this several times a day until he gets the idea that he has to come and get it.
Each and every time he or she comes closer to the treat, you too should move closer to the cage, allowing them enough time to get used to you being there.
Before long, your pet will eventually take the treat from you, but probably with plenty of trepidation in the beginning. However, with even more patience on your part your guinea pig will be nibbling treats right from you hand without any fear at all and even become happy and excited when they see you.
To Pick Your Guinea Pig Up...
Forget using treats to pick up your guinea pig as you won't want to damage the bond of trust you've taken so long to build.
Instead, build trust by petting and loving your guinea pig, and showing him that you're not a scary predator, but instead a loving friend. Remember that in the wild, people like you would eat this poor little critter!
Actually Holding Your Guinea Pig
It's extremely important to pick up and hold a guinea pig with great caution as these little animals are shaped in such a way that lung damage and broken bones are possible if they aren't held correctly.
Lightly cup your guinea pig's torso while supporting their back end while lifting slowly. Carry them gently but securely while making sure the entire body is fully supported.
If you have children, teach them how to pick up and hold the guinea pig and younger kids should always be supervised as these tiny animals can easily be injured, or worse, if dropped or squeezed.
Relaxing Your Pet
Don't you just love the idea of sitting on your couch, petting your guinea pig in your lap, and reading the paper or watching the news? It's a great idea, but in practice, it takes a while.
Using a treat while sitting in a quiet room, handle your guinea pig gently, petting their fur and talking very softly to them and see if they'll sit nicely in your lap while nibbling their treat.
If you're patient, he will, and eventually he's going to love being handled by you, and actually request it by squealing when he sees you coming near.
Bring your guinea pigs home and introducing them to their new living quarters is a rather important and also stressful time in the life of these little animals. After bringing your pet home you will, of course, be tempted to hold and cuddle them, thinking that this will comfort them as it would a baby or small child. However, doing this to a guinea pig who is in a strange, frightening location can cause them great stress.
Several days will be needed for your guinea pig to acclimate themselves to their new home. Take care to keep their environment as quiet and calm as possible without making any loud noises near the cage or in the same room as your pet.
Important Note:
You need to ensure that when you bring one or more guinea pigs into the house that they have a good area to hide - each guinea pig needs his or her own place, too, or a fight could break out!
Keeping Your Distance
Notice everyone in the family hovering around the cage? Watching the guinea pigs every move? Although cute and interesting, doing this is definitely going to scare the little guys!
To a guinea pig you may be a predator like a large bird ready to swoop down and gobble them up, causing them to be stressed and incredibly frightened. To watch your guinea pigs without making them nervous, slowly get down to eye level with them keeping some distance between you and the cage so they can see that you mean no harm.
Bribing Your Guinea Pig
The best way to get your pet to trust you is, without a doubt, bribery. Sound crazy? Perhaps. But it's true! Bribing the small animal that you want to love and adore is the best way for trust.
The best things to bribe with? Treats, of course. Because the guinea pig has so many things it loves to eat, you're going to have no shortage of bribing tools. Check out Chapter Five for more information on your guinea pig's favorite things to eat.
Best Bribing Ways?
Are you ready to begin bribing your new guinea pig to make them trust and accept you?
Begin by showing the treat you have for your guinea pig to them and then placing it by the open cage door. Now wait just outside the opening of the cage, hands in lap and sitting quietly.
After a certain amount of time, if he hasn't taken the treat, carefully and slowly pick it up again, close the cage door, and leave. Try this several times a day until he gets the idea that he has to come and get it.
Each and every time he or she comes closer to the treat, you too should move closer to the cage, allowing them enough time to get used to you being there.
Before long, your pet will eventually take the treat from you, but probably with plenty of trepidation in the beginning. However, with even more patience on your part your guinea pig will be nibbling treats right from you hand without any fear at all and even become happy and excited when they see you.
To Pick Your Guinea Pig Up...
Forget using treats to pick up your guinea pig as you won't want to damage the bond of trust you've taken so long to build.
Instead, build trust by petting and loving your guinea pig, and showing him that you're not a scary predator, but instead a loving friend. Remember that in the wild, people like you would eat this poor little critter!
Actually Holding Your Guinea Pig
It's extremely important to pick up and hold a guinea pig with great caution as these little animals are shaped in such a way that lung damage and broken bones are possible if they aren't held correctly.
Lightly cup your guinea pig's torso while supporting their back end while lifting slowly. Carry them gently but securely while making sure the entire body is fully supported.
If you have children, teach them how to pick up and hold the guinea pig and younger kids should always be supervised as these tiny animals can easily be injured, or worse, if dropped or squeezed.
Relaxing Your Pet
Don't you just love the idea of sitting on your couch, petting your guinea pig in your lap, and reading the paper or watching the news? It's a great idea, but in practice, it takes a while.
Using a treat while sitting in a quiet room, handle your guinea pig gently, petting their fur and talking very softly to them and see if they'll sit nicely in your lap while nibbling their treat.
If you're patient, he will, and eventually he's going to love being handled by you, and actually request it by squealing when he sees you coming near.
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