Archive for the ‘2012 OlympiGs & ParalympiGs’ Category

Closing Thoughts for OlympiGs and ParalympiGs 2012

Guineas come in all shapes, shades, sizes and characters. It’s worth grasping the “they’re all different” fact when you first become a guinea pig owner, what one guinea does another probably won’t, and that’s alright 🙂 One guinea pig might be huge another quite small but both can be healthy. Coats can be very different, […]

August 12, 2012   Posted in: 2012 OlympiGs & ParalympiGs, Planet Guinea  No Comments

Gorgeous Guineas’ Bathathon 2012

Gorgeous Guineas, the world’s only maker of guinea pig specific aromatherapy shampoos, recommend bathing in their gentle, yet effective, shampoos 4-6 wheekly. This was also recommended by the cambridge cavy Trust who carried out trials to collect their evidence. A bath should be over within half an hour, it will consist of getting the coat […]

August 10, 2012   Posted in: 2012 OlympiGs & ParalympiGs, Planet Guinea  No Comments

Sleepathon 2012

After eating and maybe a play in a pile of good hay guineas will sleep/rest. Sleeping guineas may have their eyes open or closed, some twitch and seem to be having an awesome dream whilst others will lay extremely  (worryingly for Humans) still. Their favoured bed may be a nice pile of hay (often they […]

August 5, 2012   Posted in: 2012 OlympiGs & ParalympiGs, Planet Guinea  No Comments

Hayathon 2012

It is widely known that guineas really enjoy their hay and coincidentally it keeps their teeth worn too as they use the side to side chewing action to eat it! It also keeps the digestive system moving along very nicely too, very important that long fibre, a guinea pig’s digestive system should never be allowed […]

August 1, 2012   Posted in: 2012 OlympiGs & ParalympiGs, Planet Guinea  No Comments

The 2012 OlympiGs/ParalympiGs come to Planet Guinea

Guinea Pig Welfare is holding the torch for Guinea Pigs at the 2012 OlympiGs and ParalympiGs pigcause they’re worth it. We won’t be doing anything too demanding though, in fact there will be no demands made, the guineas have elected to portray their lives how they enjoy them the most, just to ensure Humans don’t […]

July 27, 2012   Posted in: 2012 OlympiGs & ParalympiGs, Planet Guinea  No Comments