If your child asks to get a pet, do not refuse to it, communication with animals favorably influences children's mentality, learns to care for the neighbor and to be responsible. The guinea pig is very nice rodent whom it is simple to look after. This animal can become the general pet.
Instruction
1. It is necessary to remember that guinea pigs are gregarious rodents, at liberty they live big families therefore, buying one rodent, pay to him much attention that he did not get bored and did not ache. It is better to put a cage in the room where all family most often gathers. After the pig gets used and will cease to be afraid, she will fall in love with you and will begin to react to your emergence by peculiar joyful sounds. The guinea pig is very mobile therefore she needs to give the chance in the afternoon to run about on the apartment.
2. Guinea pigs badly transfer a heat and dry air. It is better to keep them in the cool place with humidity level not less than 50%. In the summer of guinea pigs it is better to hold at the dacha where the cage or the open-air cage can be taken out directly on the street and to put in a shadow of trees. The open-air cage needs to be covered with something from above to secure the pet against attacks from other animals or birds.
3. The cage for a guinea pig has to be spacious. If you buy several animals, then consider that on each of them the area not less than 40*40 cm is necessary. The best filler for a cage is large opit, shavings, hay or cat's filler which absorbs liquid and a smell. At guinea pigs a plentiful mocheotdeleniye therefore it is necessary to clean a cage not less once a week.
4. Food of a guinea pig has to be balanced. Most often rodents begin to be ill because of bad or improper feeding. It is necessary to feed them always at the same time 2-3 times a day. The best forages: fresh grass in the summer, hay in the winter and in the fall, wheat bran, mature and fresh vegetables and fruit. It is impossible to give to an animal sausage and cheese, dairy products at all (except the lactation period), bad and unripe fruit, the remains of your food, sweet.
5. In a cage of a guinea pig there has to be a drinking bowl with fresh water and a feeding trough. It is better to buy a feeding trough rather heavy that it did not turn over when the small animal gets up on it front pads.
6. It is necessary to bathe a guinea pig only in urgent cases - if she dirtied the wool a stake or dirt. For this purpose warm water needs to be poured in a small basin so that it hid legs of a small animal. For washing of wool it is necessary to use zooshampoo. During washing you watch that water did not get to ears. After bathing carefully rub off animal hair. If houses cool, it is possible to dry up a mumps the hair dryer not to chill it.