GUINEA PIGS

COMPETITION

• Male Guinea Pigs can compete
• over food or a female.
• When they compete they
• raise their heads and see
• who can get it the highest.

TERRITORY

• When guinea pigs are
• marking their territory
• they rub their rear ends,
• noses, and head where they
• wish to mark their territory

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Mating and raising young
When guinea pigs are mating they squeak loud and nip each other. When they are raising young if you touch the babies before they are 3 weeks the mother will abandon them. You also have to take the father out before the mom gives birth.

LIVING IN GROUPS OR NOT

• Sometimes guinea pigs will
• live in groups and sometimes
• they live by their self, but you
• can not have them live by their
• self for a while and then put another in their cage.

COMMUNICATION

• Guinea pigs communicate
• in many different sqeaks.
• They have seven different
• kinds of squeaks. One is like
• a cat which is purring.

HIBERNATION

For Beginners
When you first bring a New Guinea pig home it will feel stressed. Guinea pigs need lots of room to roam in their cage. Guinea pigs don't over eat but that is not true for my guinea pig. One guinea pig needs 4 sq ft at a minimum.

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BY: KATELYNN