Guinea pigs come in two varieties, short hair and long hair. They eat foods like carrots, parsley, lettuce, dry food and hay. Proper care requires a house, water bottle, food bowls, a cage with soft bedding changed weekly, nail trims every 3 months, exercise outside the cage, calcium supplements daily, no exercise wheels due to back issues, potty training, and feeding fresh food twice daily.

1. GUINEA PIGS
By: Am ber Dahl e

2. Short Hair & Long Hair
• Short hair pigs
• Long hair pigs

3. What They Eat
• Fresh carrots
• Parsley
• Romaine lettuce
• Dry Guinea pig food
• Timothy hay

4. How to Care
• They require a house/dome, a water bottle/bowl and
bowls for dry and fresh food.
• Have a cage with soft bedding that is changed once a
week or once every two weeks
• Need to have their nails trimmed every three month
depending on how fast they grow.
• Need to taken out of cage and played with and to run
around.

5. Special Things About Them
• They need to take Calcium tablets once a day. They can
not make vitamins that they need.
• They can not run on a wheel. It hurts their backs
• They need to be potty trained (sometimes it doesn’t work)
• They need to be feed three times a day with two meals
consisting of fresh food