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OK, the ones I saw were opaque. Maybe it's just one of those things where expensive doesn't equate to good. The iPhone of hamster wheels.
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Nah, that would be them declaring that they'd just now invented something that hamster wheels had been already doing for ten years.
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Apr 19, 2025 07:08
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Jedit posted:OK, the ones I saw were opaque. Maybe it's just one of those things where expensive doesn't equate to good. The iPhone of hamster wheels. what does that mean?
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Apr 19, 2025 10:46
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More expensive for no real gain compared to other models, was my assumption
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Apr 19, 2025 12:50
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Malachite_Dragon posted:More expensive for no real gain compared to other models, was my assumption that isn’t true though
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Apr 19, 2025 12:51
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 I'm just providing my attempt at a translation, I'm not a mind reader. This isn't the thread for an android vs iphone slapfight anyway
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Apr 19, 2025 12:58
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Anyways, the niteangel is actually super nice, imo definitely worth the price. It's cut clear acrylic with a hefty silent running connection for the wheel itself, and a wingnut to modify the height of the wheel as needed, as well as a rock solid base. Now if only the little poo poo would actually use it over the other option. Actually I realized I did not post a photo of the little poo poo in here yet, I posted her in a different thread.   She is still a baby, and still INSANELY hyper and skittish(i bought her partially because she was running on her wheel so fast her legs were a blur and then jumped out and stood up to look at me, that's some personality!) She is terrified of hands, as hams are wont to do, but i put her inside my shirt and she promptly crawled into the crook of my elbow and went to sleep, so I think she'll warm up just fine.
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Apr 19, 2025 13:07
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Malachite_Dragon posted:More expensive for no real gain compared to other models, was my assumption That, and you're paying for the logo. Regarding hamsters and their fear of hands: a lot of that comes because they usually only see hands from the inside curling around them. If you show them the back of your hand, so they're seeing it from the same perspective as they see their own forepaws, they generally get to "Oh, that's just like mine only bigger" fairly quickly. You can also encourage them to run across your flattened hand into an exercise ball, or hold on to a single outstretched finger so you can lift them out of their cage. Once they're used to touching you by their own consent, rather than you trying to touch and hold them, they get accustomed to it.
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Apr 19, 2025 14:55
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I wish they lived longer. Was given two dwarf hamsters some years back; Chicken never warmed up to anyone and was traumatized from whatever happened at the hands of kids of his previous owners and would run the second I opened the cage door. He ended up in a mouse rack tray where he had limited contact with anyone. He did a lot better there. Then there was Black Forest Ham, who quickly realized when I came into the room, and he expected a treat. And if I ignored him, he would scramble at the cage side until I came over, gave him a piece of cat food or lettuce or something, then he'd run off with it, and come back for more. He loved being in his rollaround ball and would purposefully run into the cats.
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My nieces hamster Roman was like that. Completely unafraid of the cats (though it helped that all our cats were elderly); he was rolling around in his ball one time and stopped to do some grooming. Porthos tried to sneak up on him to sniff him and figure out what the hell this thing rolling around the living room floor is. Roman whips around like the dramatic groundhog, and starts rolling the hamster ball right for Porthos; she had to jump up onto the couch to escape him.
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Apr 26, 2025 07:54
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My guinea pigs love tossing their plastic houses more than they love sitting in them.
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:My guinea pigs love tossing their And also shoving their litter boxes around. Juno and Clio seem to have litter box drag races across their cages now.
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Are guinea pigs…smart enough to use a litter box? My boy is so dumb he fills both hideys with poop and last week he did it so much I had to give him a bath as it got on his fur.
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Pants Donkey posted:Are guinea pigs…smart enough to use a litter box? My boy is so dumb he fills both hideys with poop and last week he did it so much I had to give him a bath as it got on his fur. Yeah I mean they poo and pee while they sleep so it isn't 100% effective, but all three of ours are smart enough to mostly pee in their litter boxes. This is also where hay is most readily accessible for them, and they will relieve themselves when they are grazing for long periods of time.  Here's Clio looking all cute and whatnot with her litter boxes in the background. We use either guinea pig rated wood shavings or shredded paper bedding for them, with the actual floors of their enclosures being fleece liners layered over blankets.  And here is Clio nesting. Now with all this said, we do poo pickups multiple times through the day and their hideys get emptied every morning because there are invariably heaps of little turds where they slept for long periods of time. Juno and Clio are generally less particular about it, but both definitely do use their litter boxes to pee. I think this has to do with their upbringings: the two of them are rescues from a traumatic environment in which they were constantly hiding from poorly supervised young children and they became more comfortable than usual with sitting in their own waste because the alternative was attracting the attention of those horrible little monsters. When they were rescued, they actually had irritation and chemical burns from their pee on their feet. Bellona, on the other hand, is very fastidious, uses her litter box regularly and prefers to keep her waste in specific areas so that the rest of her home remains clean. In her case, she spent at least the first three or four months of her life in one of those tiny red PetSmart cages that are often sold with guinea piglets and indeed, this is what she was in when we picked her up from her previous owners. So she learned very young to confine her waste to very small spaces so as to not get it on her. Now she has a 4x2 CNC cage with a 2x2 loft to herself, along with a mezzanine upon which she can hang out with her people and also observe Clio and Juno. All three get their enclosures tidied daily, with turnover of their liners taking place once a week (or more if needed). We do go through a lot of the square small pads for high-frequency excretion zones though, like in hideys, in front of their water bottles or areas where they tend to hang out for long periods. Conclusion: guinea pigs are smart enough to confine most of their urine to litter boxes, and I think they also tend to pee in places where they already smell urine so giving them reason to spend long enough in a litter box that they pee in it increases the likelihood that they continue to pee there. Unless they are sleeping, in which case they just let rip where they are. Fearless fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Jun 22, 2025 |
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I have read about people who have successfully litter box trained their pigs. I'm sure it is especially helpful if you let your pigs free range in the house all day. I've had some pigs who have been better at it than others but have never taken the time to do any kind of intentional training myself.
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Sirotan posted:I have read about people who have successfully litter box trained their pigs. I'm sure it is especially helpful if you let your pigs free range in the house all day. I've had some pigs who have been better at it than others but have never taken the time to do any kind of intentional training myself. Mine as a teen were pretty good about heading home to use the toilet when having floor time. They'd also start making a fuss if they were on your lap and needed to go pee, which was pretty polite of them.
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the litter training will only rly be useful for pee, unless you want to do what rabbit keepers do and keep a hay basket accessible from the toilet. When a guinea pig’s GI tract is working properly they’re pretty much pooping continuously, especially when they’re eating. Just a conveyor belt of food matter going in and coming out.
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Mine have suddenly after 4 years decided to use the litter box and now I keep running out of the paper litter stuff because I'm not used to buying it 
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Pasketti posted:Mine have suddenly after 4 years decided to use the litter box and now I keep running out of the paper litter stuff because I'm not used to buying it I prefer the paper litter as I find it's more absorbent and better at keeping absorbing odours but it tends to be more expensive than the wood chips and as far as I can tell does not come in bags as large as the chips do. What I have noticed with guinea pigs is that they tend to pee in the same places once it smells like urine. So once they actually use a litter box, they will quickly get the hang of going there to pee. We also make a point of putting our guinea pigs back into a litter box after they have had lap time for a while-- they often need to pee anyways, so this sets them up for success!
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Mine as a teen were pretty good about heading home to use the toilet when having floor time. They'd also start making a fuss if they were on your lap and needed to go pee, which was pretty polite of them. Yeah I had 2 sister pigs and built a cage that I put in my kitchen. It had a door I just left open. I’d lie on the couch in the living room and one would come all the way and sit on the floor by me to be picked up and petted. When she needed to be put back down to go back and pee she’d lightly nip at my cheek
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Salmon is 7 years old today.   
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all hail the elderly guinea pope
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Sirotan posted:Salmon is 7 years old today. Salmon looks quite surprised to learn how old they are. All hail the Guinea Poge  .
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Salmon looks quite surprised to learn how old they are. Unfortunately we both got a reminder of how old she was yesterday at the vet when she went on yet another arthritis medication. But she's outlived her mom by a year and a half, and her sister by three years, she loves her food and getting pets and chilling with her pig herd friends. She's a very good piggy. Hopefully in a year I'll get to do another little photo session with a new hat. 
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Salmon is an adorable little lady!
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The price of 40lbs of 3rd cut timothy hay from Small Pet Select in August was $63.59 shipped. I need to order more and the same thing is now gonna cost me $105.99. Goddamn.
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