Care about your cavies!

Guinea Pig grooming

Grooming Guinea Pig isn’t complicated or intensive. Most of healthy and hygienically care will be done by themselves. Because of the special properties of domestication you have to intervene from time to time to keep your cavies healthy. We tell you what to do.

With some worth knowing information about grooming Guinea Pigs it will be quite easy to keep them fit and happy.

At the beginning it might seem quite difficult for you and also for your cavies and you may feel overstrained but with some practice it won’t be a problem anymore.

Carefully grooming Guinea Pigs is the best you can do to prevent diseases and not at least to minimize tang in the cage / room.

Weekly you should to the healthy check.

How to nurse your cavies

  • Bathing Guinea Pigs

    Bathe Guinea Pigs for grooming reasons is not quite elegant. They hate water- and in most cases they don’t need it on their fur also! If there is no particular reason just don’t to it. Additionally bathing Guinea Pigs abets some serious diseases. But for some reasons you have to bath your cavy. Lets have a look when it is necessary – and how do you do it with less stress for your Guinea Pig.