Your piggy needs regular exercise to stay fit and healthy, if you can, let her run around a room in your house that you have made secure - cover electric cables (they love to nibble these), remove any plastic carrier bags from the floor (they love to nibble these too, and if ingested these could cause a very dangerous blockage). If they have a pen that is sited on the floor and has a door fitted as my pen does, you can just open the door and let them come and go as they please - this is what I do and I find that they never pee on my carpet, they always go back to their pen. They do deposit quite a few poops around though, but I don't mind these. If you need to put your piggy on the floor and they do not have access back to their pen / cage then you can try placing little cardboard boxes in your room, maybe under a table, with a little of their hay / soiled bedding / a few poops, to encourage them to do their poops and pee's in there, they will most likely learn to do this eventually and become reasonably litter trained.

Your piggy will love to run around and they love to explore, and she will popcorn (happy jump) and dart from under table to table to under the settee, making the happy little 'bouncy-grunting' noise they make. I always sit on the floor with some chopped celery and wait for my piggy's to come over and take it out of my hand, a great way of making friends with your piggies.

Piggies are not always the easiest things to catch to put back - I leave their pen door open and just put a fresh handful of hay in there, then I rustle it so the pigs can hear and within a minute or so they have all scampered back in to feast on the hay ! (and I quickly go over and shut their door !) However, if you cannot do this and have problems picking your piggies up then you can try either cornering them under something like a coffee table where they cannot escape as you bend down to pick them up, or place a cardboard box / front loading pet carrier on the floor in the corner with some newspaper / hay and you should find they'll go in there ok, so you can pick them up from there and put them back.

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The Wheekies also really enjoy 'playing' with cardboard toilet roll tubes, they pick them up and wave them around and also nibble them - try stuffing them with hay or hiding treats in them and watch your piggy sniff their treat out.

Some piggy owners have found their piggy's enjoy the type of toys made for birds that are wooden and have bells on the bottom - hung over the piggy's cage, just in their reach so they can 'nose' them and make the bell ring - I haven't actually tried this myself yet but I did give the Wheekies a cat ball which had a bell in it and they completely ignored it so I gave it to the hamster who ignored it too ! See if your piggy likes them, they're all different !

When the Wheekies are out I make the tunnels under a spare double duvet for them to run under and hide in, they often fall asleep under there where it's nice and warm - you could make them a little maze to run through from maybe bricks if they are in the garden, add little boxes as rooms and hide treats around for them to find. They will also enjoy running between all your bits of furniture.

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If your piggy is kept on her own in an empty pen with nothing to amuse herself with, no trips out for scampers around and not a lot of human contact, she will probably be a sad piggy, therefore it is up to us human slaves to make sure our piggies are entertained, stimulated and happy !

Ways in which we can entertain and make our piggy's happy are:

Provide your piggy with a means of stimulation whilst you are not around (& when you are)

Let your piggy out for regular exercise

Give your piggy a friend !

Have a lot of contact with your piggy

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One of the best ways to keep your guinea pig amused is to provide her with something to do (as well as eating, [pooping] and sleeping of course...) - a good idea is to provide her with tunnels and things to run through (so she can daydream and pretend she is running through little trodden down pathways in the grasslands of South America...) - Cardboard 'Chubes' (above) from petshops are ideal for them to hide in and nibble.

Piggies love to go in and out of things so you can either buy your pig one of the 'pigloos' available in petshops or get a variety of cardboard boxes / shoe boxes which you can cut openings in (make sure you don't leave any sharp edges), your piggy can go in and out and if you link them together she can run between them, stopping in each box, where you could hide bits of food as a surprise or a handful of hay for her to nibble / snuggle in. Your piggy will also get great enjoyment from chewing the boxes, try and use plain brown ones if you can (just to be on the safe side).

The Wheekies also love playing in brown paper grocery bags, they go in one end, sometimes all of them together, squashed in, and eventually nibble their way out the other end.

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1. Try putting apples, lettuce, carrots, etc. on a bit of string and hang it from your guinea pigs cage.
2. The more simple the toy, the better.
3. Take a paper towel tube and cut it open (this is so your guinea pig won't get stuck in it). Place it in your guinea pig's cage so they can chew on it. Hide some food in it while you feed them, it's great fun.
4. Take one or two paper bags for your guinea pigs to munch on and hide in, they are a big hit, for an even better experience, try cutting a little hole or peek hole in the back or on the sides.
5. Put your guinea pig's cage somewhere where people go by often. Remember, in the wild, cavies live in family groups, so guinea pigs can easily get lonely.
6. Build a small, sturdy shelf for your guinea pig, above the level of the plastic bottom of its cage, if it has that style of cage. It will be able to watch people go by.
7. Take a blanket or towel and bring your guinea pig outside the cage to let it run around.
8. Bring your guinea pig outside! If it's about 60-70ºF [no higher than 80ºF], and your lawn has not been treated with any chemicals, you can take your guinea pig out onto the grass. Guinea pigs love to be outside. Just watch them carefully, and if they show signs of overheating, bring them inside quickly. Watch out for hawks! [NOTE: Guinea Pigs also have a risk of hypothermia, always be careful and use common sense!]
9. If you own a hairless guinea pig, most of them are ticklish, tents made out of "clean" old shirts (be careful to remove all buttons) can be great fun, they love jumping in and out of the tent! If you are going to leave your guinea pig unattended with a tent, just make sure it's suspended securely, and not too much of the shirt is touching the ground, you don't want your little friend to get all tangled up.

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Charm just isn't quite brave enough to come and get fed.

Notice the nice piggie house - but watch for this window design with large pigs they can get stuck.

When you first get your guinea pigs it is best to leave them alone as much as possible for the first couple of days. It is very tempting to keep picking them up and showing them to people but this is very stressful for them when they are in a new environment so please resist this until they have settled in. 

Make sure that each guinea pig has a nice house to hide in. Otherwise when they are startled the more dominant piggie will kick the other one out of the box and this can cause fights particularly amongst males. If possible don't disturb your pet when he is in his box as this will make them feel more secure. It is sometimes necessary to catch them by tipping over the box but do this as little as possible in the early days. 

Feed your guinea pigs at the same time every day. They will soon learn to assoicate the sounds of feeding with something nice happening. Ours squeak when they hear rustling and/or the frige opening. Also have times a couple of times a day when you give them treats. 

At first you may have to just put a treat outside the door of the nest box and move away but over time you should be able to get a guinea pig to take it from your hand. This is the most difficult part of the process and it is worth persevering. I spent a lot of time at this stage with Charm. I had to have a rule that if he didn't come and get it in a reasonable period of time I take it away again. This is because he had learnt that I would eventually give up and leave it and wouldn't take it. 

Once you have a guinea pig feeding from your hand it is often quite a quick process to get them to come further and further out of the box and eventually come to the edge of the cage to be fed. Before long your guinea pig will be standing ready for a treat. It is absolutely essential that you don't use a treat to catch the guinea pig at this point as it will stop them trusting you. Once they get to trust you really well you will be able to pick them up. As mentioned above both Truffle and Smudge will come over and be picked up now. 

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Warning:

- Guinea Pigs are extremely fragile! Be careful whenever there is a risk of falling or having your guinea pig dropped; they can fracture or break a few bones! Always closely supervise your pigs when they are over 1 ft. off the ground, like on your couch or your bed.

- Never let your hands off your pig because they could fall even if the nails are clung to your shirt.

- Never pick a pig up by the shoulders. That's how their legs get broken.

- If you are holding your pig for a long time, try get an old cloth to put under him/her, as you may not want pee on your clothes.

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