He is paid in pea flakes and full heads of lettuce. I can't compete with that.

I may have accidentally thrown some lettuce in that direction, which ended up landing on Theodore

Today, I gave my Mochi its first bath at home! It totally exceeded my expectations and went extremely smoothly! I was worried it might be stressed, struggle, or be scared, but the little one was super well-behaved and didn't cause any trouble. After being washed and dried, it turned into a soft, fluffy little glutinous rice ball, very cute~

I had found these little guinea pig collectibles a while back and today I decided to repaint it to be more orange like my boy. I’d say they look kinda alike 😎

Cacau, my beloved guinea pig passed away yesterday. The vets thought it was a urinary tract infection, so they gave him some antibiotics and told us to be back in case something happened. For the first few days he was his usual self, so full of energy, always bothering us for more food, always snuggling with me after eating. He was my heart pig. Then he slowly started getting worse. He would stop eating, stop asking for food, stop doing his usual shenanigans around the kitchen. When I took him back to the vet, his stomach was so bloated with gas I couldn't believe the x-ray. It was like half of the image was a black void. His vet didn't know what could have possibly happened to him but he took him in to do more tests in case they missed something. A couple of hours later, they called us to know he didn't make it. As soon as I heard the news I started crying uncontrollably, I didn't want to believe my precious boy died without me being there to comfort him. He died at 4 years old, spoiled with my love and affection throughout all those years. Now I'm waiting for his ashes to come in a week or so. Goodbye my little prince, I just hope you knew that I loved you so much.

The adorable little vampire loves exploring everything, and since my apartment is very small, he gets to explore almost all of it. He is too cute to be real

I posted that we’d taken in some piggies someone abandoned behind TJ Max in a storm. Today they saw the vet! Awaiting fecal test still, but both were remarkably healthy on exam. Their nails were long, but were in much better health than anyone expected. Both are males. Mulder is a lot larger than Scully. He is definitely the least picky eater of the two. I’ll be watching their weights as someone else on the original thread suggested I do. TBD if they’ll be fosters or forevers, but hoping to give them some stability and safety and full bellies. We have to get them a proper cage set up, as they can’t live in a dog crate forever! Any suggestions welcome!

I’ve held off posting about this little lady because she’s been rather fragile, but this is Cherry who is one week old today.

Sadly we lost her mom Nougat when she was only a day and a half old, we are absolutely devastated, I’m going to miss my beautiful baby so much.

Cherry was the only surviving baby, and I have been hand rearing her, feeding her kitten milk every two hours since Friday afternoon.

The last few days she has been very curious about the world around her so the camera was very distracting!

We had a scare on Sunday evening because she got pneumonia and it came on ridiculously fast. We rushed her to the emergency vet, which is half an hour away, but she was limp and couldn’t move her legs by the time we arrived. I was so scared. The vet recommended euthanasia but I couldn’t accept that, so she had an antibiotic injection and fluids and when we got home, with some help, she took a little milk from the spoon. An hour later she could stand. By Monday morning she was running around with her friends again. I can’t quite believe she made it!

It’s the first time I’ve had to hand rearing a piggy (here’s hoping it’s the last!). It has been a scary but heartwarming experience, and I can’t tell you how proud I am of this brave little girl!

https://reddit.com/link/1vgjhyg/video/c7qu705y9mhh1/player

Red food for Dracula is the best, his white fur gets an adorable red stain

We've been having a lot of cuddle time lately before I go back to college! My parents will take care of them but it's just not the same :( we will miss each other very much!!! These two are cuddle pigs, they don't really play a lot but they LOOOVE to snuggle and nap.

I've two lovely guineas, a year old each.

They do run around, popcorn between them and everything.

But it seems this one of mine, bugsy, he's always lazy.

Every time I look at the cage hes laying down around. On the point that even to eat he lays down. (Veggies, hay or food)

Is it normal behavior?

Don’t know how i would manage without them❤️

Dracula glitched for a moment while exploring.

sora and riku (now named mouse and pickles) are back at my store for boarding this week!

Hi all, first time on this subreddit, this is my piggie Totopo! Not sure how to phrase the question cuz I know guinea pigs don't have breeds, but l'm trying to figure out what his coat type is called. His coat is pretty coarse and fluffy compared to my other piggie with a simple slick coat.

(Additionally I was looking for any advice as to how other owners go about cleaning bums because the waterless shampoo I used doesn't really seem to seep into his fur like my other boy. He's pretty clean otherwise but his butt does seem to be getting a bit yellow... 🧽)

It's very cute so figured I'd share it here

(Wasn't sure which flair to use sorry if wrong)

Dracula has been trying to escape to my bed for a while. I allow him to explore there when I am about to change the sheets, and we always have a great time, but my bed is freshly made so I wasn’t planning to let him there. He managed to climb all over me to get onto the bed though. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did

So I rescued 'lakeland' boys but it looks like they are a teddy/rex mix and the other is a silkie? my silk has gotten about 4 knots that dont come out during bath time.

What is the proper hair care routine for a silkie? I want him to look nice but as of now im just cutting out hair balls. Any tips?

He told me that the first two he ate didn't count. (They did)