Gone are the days when owners of guinea pigs kept their pets in the pen in the backyard, with little or no communication with the family. Now, many owners prefer to keep pigs in the house, their pets automatically become pets. Every guinea pig needs a comfortable cottage. This article will explain how you can create a comfortable home for your pet with your own hands.
Accommodation features
Indoor guinea pig house has many advantages. For example, it becomes possible to control the movement of air inside a house if the walls are made of wire in the form of a cage. In addition, the cage will allow guinea pigs to remain involved in the activities taking place in the room, thereby spending time with their favorite owners.
Although guinea pigs are small animals, they need a lot of space for running and training to be happy and healthy. For this reason, it is better to choose fairly large and free cells and houses. Exercise is very important for healthy guinea pigs. The best way for them to remain mobile is to run in a circle around their home. If the area of the house is too small, the animals will be bored, they risk getting serious health problems, for example, heart disease or diabetes.
Suitable house
Making a house for a guinea pig can be quite a simple and fun affair. Homemade house can be a great place to stay a pet in the living room. And here everyone can be creative, creating the perfect haven for their pet.
Most of the cells in pet stores are too small for your guinea pigs to exhibit natural behavior and live as they deserve. To create the perfect pet home yourself, you can think about creating a cage from a plastic pallet and wire inserts instead of impenetrable walls. Respectively, the plastic pallet forms the base for the cage.
Independently do the cell
To create your own cell you may need materials that can always be found in hardware stores or on the Internet. To build a cage, you will need a sheet of plastic large enough to form the base of your cage, as well as a metal lattice “cubes” to form the walls of the house. In order to ensure that your pet has the necessary space, experts recommend sticking with the following sizes, depending on the number of guinea pigs:
- 1 guinea pig: area - 0.7 square meters. m, the size of the grid - 76h91 cm;
- 2 guinea pigs: area - 0.7 square meters. m, the size of the grid 76h127 cm;
- 3 guinea pigs: area - 1 square. m, the size of the grid - 76h157cm;
- 4 guinea pigs: area - 1.2 square meters. m, the size of the grid - 76h193sm.
If you can not calculate and draw a scheme by which you will make a cage for guinea pigs on your own, look in the Internet, here are many ready-made solutions. One of the options must come up and be perfect when creating the best house for your pets.
Drawings will help to properly assemble the cage so that the guinea pigs will live in a good home for a long time.
Inside the house, all suspended structures can be designed and made from readily available and inexpensive materials.All that is required is time, a few basic building tools and a bit of imagination. Making a guinea pig house is the perfect way to get creative. Whether it is an L-shaped dwelling or using different levels, creating your own creation means that you can do it exactly the way you want it.
Undoubtedly, to see piglets happily running around and making joyful squealing sounds - happiness for every owner. The best place in your house for guinea pigs will be a room that is not too warm and not so damp, otherwise guinea pigs may just get sick.
You need to choose a safe place away from other pets and loud noises, but close to the family.
The best material for cell equipment
Once the construction of a house for guinea pigs is over, you can begin to equip it inside to make it softer, warmer and more comfortable for animals. For whatever material, for a hammock or for a cot, you should only choose absorbent fabric, since guinea pigs do not use trays, as rabbits can do, for example.
To create coziness in a cage, you can use recycled shredded paper, wood chips, or paper towels. Here it is important to remember that you should avoid any wood chips that may have a high content of essential oils or preservatives, since they can be poisonous to pets. Both wood chips and shredded paper are disposable and must be recycled and replaced if contaminated.
You must constantly ensure that wood chips or paper are not wet.
The use of laminated towels or wool can be more efficient since such material can be washed and reused. You can be creative, with flowers and patterns you can create a separate small palace for guinea pigs in a cage. This is the place where they will sleep and hide.
All about the details
After creating a house, you can proceed to the arrangement and the formation of soft pillows for your pets. Guinea pigs need a lot of movement, they also need entertainment. For example, the most favorite entertainment of pigs is running through the tunnels back and forth, pigs love to rise and fall on ramps and hide in shelters.
Tunnels can be made of any length to fit a new home. It is better to make them out of plastic material, so it will be easier to wash them, besides plastic practically does not get dirty due to its smooth surface. Also, the tunnels can be made of cardboard wrapped in pieces of an old blanket.
Create your own ramps that will lead to the ceiling of the cage so that the pigs run upstairs and then descend. It is better to make such ramps from safe plastic or wood. These materials can also be used to create platforms and dens where guinea pigs will be hiding. Note that your guinea pigs will need a cage where they can hide and fall asleep.
If the house and the materials you use for your guinea pigs are harmless and do not pose a health hazard, you will create the perfect home for your pet.
Video on how to make a house for the guinea pig, see below.
