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My friend was going to buy a leash for hers but I was like NOOOOOOO

I love that squeak it sounds so adorable and makes me smile. Only one of my guinea pigs is vocal.

NOTE: Hamsterballs aren't safe for hamsters either

every time my pig hears another wheaking sound on a video she looks and runs away lol.

i plan on getting two piggies this christmas and thank you for all the information you told me ❤️ .

At first when my family first got our first pig, he came in a small cage as mentioned in the video. My mom said that he was happy in his own cage, but then after a lot of persuading she got the materials for a cnc. We then built it under my bunk bed, and he was happier then ever. Next the thing we tried to do was reach out to a rescue near by for a second. Zero responses. We didn’t want to get one from a pet store, so we waited until someone put something up on facebook. The day someone did, we made arrangements to get their pig who was also coming from a small cage, and we introduced him to our pig, spike, and now they live happily in a 3x4 cage.

Omg I had the huge hay ball and my piggy’s head almost got stuck 😭 NEVER AGAIN.

Put yourself in their shoes tbh I’d get depressed if I was in a cage all alone

Just so you you know: The cages that are sold for Guinea pigs arent even big enough for hamsters😬🤨☹😵😡

my guinea pigs heard the other pig in the beginning and went BALLISTIC

I never knew that the metal hay balls were dangerous for guinea pigs. I’m glad that we got a wooden hay feeder instead.

I recommend even just putting hay on the ground, they are meant to be eating from the ground and will be much more happy to do so

I have none of those things, I am proud of myself, I have achieved something in life 🤍🤍🤍

People really be getting these things? I knew off the bat these were bad

Thx for this list I probably would have bought the metal hay ball if I didn't know.thx

Omg the second your into played with the guinea pig squeaking my guinea pig started squeaking too! 😂

My pigs have a 210 cm cage. There two males and are extremely tame. I once left the door open for a whole night, I checked in the morning to give them there hug and feed, they were both there! I love them so much ❤️❤️

I don’t even have a guinea pig Why am I watching this 😂

Thank you so much for your hard work. I got my first pair of piggy’s a couple moths ago (had never had them) and your videos have helped me so much. Once again thank you! ❤

I have looked at many of the videos that talk about caring for your Guinea pigs and most can be very helpful. But yours was the most helpful of all. Thank you and continue spreading the information out there now.

A little tip for all piggy owners , get yourself some seed trays , fill with compost and put grass seed in to grow. 3 trays would be good , after a few weeks your have fresh grass for the piggies.just put the tray in with them and watch as they clamber all over to eat and feast, when finished, put the tray outside again to regrow in about a week, same as having a mini lawn .great for when the weather is trash and they can’t get out on your main lawn .

Thank you this is really useful. Me and my sister just bought two guinea pigs and we’ve never had them before. This video helped us buy the right things for them. Thanks a lot again!

I adopted my niece's hamster who came in.....yes, a pet-shop cage! AND a small wheel and ball 😢. All went in the bin 😀. I set up a large home for him, he had everything a hammy could wish for. Buddy was already an elderly gent,(approx 15 mnths) but he was one happy boy who lived another 8 months. He passed away peacefully and stress free. He now rests in my garden 🙏. It worries the life out of me that pet stores put profits before care! 😢 Your Piggies are adorable and you are another of my favourite people who are a voice for our Furry Family 😍

I love how your videos are short but vary informative thank you!

Oh dang I own one of those metal hay balls D: they’ve never gotten stuck in it but thank goodness I don’t use it anymore

This is really helpful!!

Loved the undercover documentary vibe at the beginning. Thank you for helping inform everyone and clearing up misinformation.

THIS VIDEO IS- WE NEED MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS OUT THERE. NOW. You dont need a leash for guinea pigs, when i take mine outside on grass, they just stick near me.

I’m so glad I found this video I bought a metal hay ball for my pigs thinking it would be okay. Definitely throwing it away and investing in a better hay rack instead.

I have three guineapigs, and the reason I have never bought them a hamster wheel is because guineapigs are cleverer than hamsters and will realise there is no point of the wheel as it goes round in circles btw this video should go more viral !! 👍👍❤️

Great video! Thanks for the information about guinea pigs

Thank you,This helped me and my guinea pig a lot!!

Very informative video! Great👍🏽

Thank you! I was going to get my guinea pigs a hamster wheel for exercise for the pigs. But I watched this before I did. And found there not good. Thanks for the great information/ video!

i have a baby guinea pig and 2 females, they are very sensitive, i got some of theese items and they hated it, i got some stuff off the list and they loved it! thanks for the amazing advice!

This was so helpful thank you so much!

I'm so glad I didn't buy any of these while I had my own piggies! No wonder they lived almost double their expected lifespan!

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My dad watched this video and we learned alot :) Thanks!

thank you for this! now i know how to keep my piggies safe and healthy.

You see my guinea pigs used to eat these treats then a video popped up on treats you should never buy for your guinea pigs and the treats I used were in it and now I just give them fruits and veggies for treats and in case you don’t know Romain lettuce is the best selection for them it is very good to feed your guinea pigs I hope this helped 🥬🍇🍉🍌🍎

When i first got Whiskers, I didnt know anything about piggies. I got him all these things at Petsmart. He just sat in the ball & never moved. He didnt like the treats either. Tho, he/they love the food there... but i noticed theyll eat any bag of food. Even if its the more healthy ones. I took apart his cage & used those walls as doors & a barrier. For when him & Axl get into it. Or the rare times i take them out. Their cage is so big, i dont really need to give thrm roam time. Idk what i was doing at Lowes, 💡oh yeah i do. I tried looking around for better cages but i couldnt find any. So i figured if i walked around at Lowes, looking at things, I could come up w/ some idea. I found some rack things, or i guess shelves that ppl can prob screw into the wall. But they have side pieces that make them stand on their own. & Its strong & sturdy. Has bars just like a cage, so they can see through. I got four of them & pretty much just stuck them together w/ 🤔 idk what those things are called. But theyre used to keep things attached to each other. Plastic that goes through a hole, & the grip becomes tighter depending how much u pull it through. It can only come a part when you cut it. Yeah, those things. I put shower liners underneath & fleeces on top. Their cage is so huge, i could lay down in it & sleep there & theyd still have plenty of room. I want to get a 3rd male. 😁 Ppl say im crafty. 💁🏻‍♀️ It works. & Theyre happy. They never jump out & im pretty sure thats the exact reason why they dont fight hard. Also, i dont understand how ppl think they stink. Well, ppl on the internet. Bc in person ill question myself & ask others. They cant smell anything either. I thought maybe i just got to used to them. Prob if i got closer, theyd smell like grass but thats it. But then i thought, they have so much space, itd be harder to accumulate smell bc theyre not as confined in the same small area for however long. Using it all the time. Whoever says they stink, idk. That seems more like a them issue.

I love this channel, its so inspirational!

Thank you for the information ☺️

thank you very much for this! I have a 120 cm cage for 2 boys and this video made me realise they need a bigger cage! I will look into getting a bigger one

Thank you for informing me about the delicate Bones. They are so robust otherwise.

Thank so so much for the video! This really helped me out. I'm soon getting 2 guinea pigs, and my mom insisted I get one of those hay ball feeders. This was my evidence NOT to let her get it for my piggies! :)

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I used to have five guinea pigs and they all had their own size XL cages, but they were in the same room, so they could talk to each other while each having their own personal space.

Wow! Thank you I was going to buy the leash and harvest, but now I won't!

Thanks! I know the ball and wheel, but I have 2 balls like the ones in the picture, but I use it for veggies only under me watching for a little enrichment.

My mom and I have been wanting a harness because my guinea pigs love playing outside but once one of the almost ran away but now that I saw this video in glad I didn't get a harness.

I had one of those ages ago and my guinea pig got stuck in it! I went to the store immediately to tell store clerk.

This is great advice, tho I have never bought any of these products for my piggies. I dont buy their food from pet shops but order fresh food and a speacial mountian hay which is easy to digest

Im glad you told me this, people sell harnesses at the near pet shop...

This is very helpful i was about to buy mines a harness thank you very much

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I never knew that those hamster balls were so dangerous to guinea pigs! Thanks for the information! :)

I have that same blue metal hay ball. My Guinea pig got stuck in it. I still used it but then stopped using because I got tired of filling it. I will definitely get a proper one.

I was about to get a harness for my guinea pig, but thank you for telling me!!

Thanks this is so helpful! I didn’t to about the hay ball. Your videos always teach me something knew. On the Pets At Home brand of shavings, it doesn’t say if they’re kiln dried or not but it says something about odour control, do you know if they’re safe?

I wouldn't buy that ball for hamster either, looks very uncomfortable and it's both enough air inside. What a stupid idea in a first place.

Your channel is helping me so much

I’ve noticed A lot of the pet shop cages are rather small I have one Guinea pig named amber and she just sleeps all day she doesn’t seem to be having trouble with the cage she just likes jumping on top of her bed and sitting there. I will try to make her cage a little more homey and get her to be comfortable thank you for the information!!

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Omg I never knew glad I came across this page thank you

Interesting and useful. I am glad that I have discovered your channel. Subscribed.

My Guinea Pigs are staying with my aunt while I move house.(I come over once a week to see them) But miss them so I like watching these :3

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I had a sait lick thing and when I was watching this video when I heard salt licks are bad I just threw these whole thing out the window

Thanks a lot for this great video!!

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Weird story: So my friends had hamsters at the time and I wanted onw to so I was looking up hamsters and other rodents until I looked upon a guenia pig with a harnest on and me literally knowing nothing about guenia pigs was like OMG THATS SO CUTE I WANNA GUENIA PIG SO I CAN DO THAT so I reserched, reserched, reserched, and reserached untill I found out that they cant wear it only for medical reasons but I didnt mind because reserching these adorable lil creatures made me atucallly want one and learned so much about them now Im here with my lil guenia pig Mabel rn shes chewing on her favorite toy ever and eating a few peices of romaine lettece and were two peas in a pot even tho I cant put her in a harnest but if it wasnt for that photo I wouldent have my bff. ❤🐹

When we got our first guinea pig we got cedar bedding but it gave him allergies so we quickly changed it to mulch. Thanks to the early symptoms, he was able to live for almost 8 years!

Really helpful thanks

Thanks you for the information! It helped me a lot! We wanted to adopt one🙃

2:01 Well too late, the pet store recomended me to buy it and Cookie stuck his head in it. Turned out that he was okay.

I wish I could bye a leash for my guinea pig toffee, but I would rather keep him healthy and safe

I literally had the first cage for a starter before ours came in the mail now it’s way bigger

Thanks!This video realy helps me!im about to get a guine pig!

When I first got my guinea pigs I got them a metal ball hayrack, and I was out with my friends but I had this weird feeling in my body and was like I NEED TO CHECK ON THE GUINEA PIGS and when I went into the guinea pig garage one of my Guinea pigs ernie was STUCK in the metal wires of the ball, I was so scared 😟 I think if I didn’t come just then he could have been injured or even worse killed 😭🥺

I know this is how it works with rabbits but I’m not too sure with it about guinea pigs. Rabbits as well have a really delicate bone structures and cannot use hay racks because it’s making their head go upward instead of how they naturally Graze on the ground if you look at both of their mouths you can see that their mouth is pointing towards the floor. And with rabbits when they use a hayrack it forces a muscle that they never use so it can be dangerous also if it is a wire hayrack they also have to turn their heads and look up so I was just wondering if that was the same with guinea pigs :)

My guinea pig doesnt need no mineral stones he justs starts licking the wall

Thank you for this helpful information my Guinea pigs are happy

3:39 I have that home for my piggies ✨🤍🥺

I just went to my cousins house and they have 2 pregnant female piggies so I’m getting 2 baby piggies 😱 imma get a c&c cage!

thank you for such a good information

Thank you so much you have changed my piggies lives

I used a few thin blankets for my piggies

I can’t believe there’s guinea pig costumes that could choke them :(

I have a large cage for my two boys but even so I have a ramp set up at least twice a day so they can free roam! They love it! We are working on potty training right now and they are doing awesome so far only a couple accidents!

I have one of those hay balls but I don’t use it for hay. I leave it so it suspended above the cage and put veggies like lettuce, celery, or peppers in it. My piggies can easily grab the pieces without hurting themselves.

OMG I have number 3 gonna remove it right now

also who would buy a guinea pig a hamster wheel? they wouldn't be able to get on it!

I have the metal ball thing but I don’t use it often when I do I stuff so much any in and I watch them they don’t chew the bars as most the hay falls out! But yes I check on them when I use it x

I never knew that 2 males needed a larger cage. I have 2 males and they always fight so we had to separate them. The cage for the first one (brownie) is a 4 on the outside by 1 grid on each side, while the other (neos) is not in a straight line but has a curve at the end to fit my room. I don’t really know how to describe how many grids on each side is. Since I described brownies enclosure, does the way that I described it sound like the correct size?

The only thing I have for my guineapig is a salt lick but she is quite a picky eater so almost all the treats I try to give her she doesnt like. She just prefers to eat what she normally eats and even gets excited for hay (she is smol brained) overall I know she's a happy healthy bean so that's what matters the most. Not like she is digging it down she just nibbles it a little once in a while.

Thank you for making this video I was going to buy a leash for my guinea pigs called honey and caramel they are American guinea pigs I think

I have a leash for my piggies but thankfully you told me not to put it in them, when I try to, they put their feet on the head part and slip off of the leash. thank you 😊