Guinea pigs are classed as ‘exotic’ animals. Today I’m explaining why, as far as I can, anyway, and also the question about how to find an exotics vet. I’d like to thank Dr Rebekah for answering my questions on this. She’s my favourite vet doctor. Why are we exotic? Apparently it has to do with …
How much should guinea pigs weigh? I’m Ludo, and I’m answering the question today from my experience. And with Mummy’s help. Average weight Most of the books say that guinea pigs weigh 600 to 1200 grams. I wonder whether they are taking that as a young adult, or if that’s the range for sows. Mummy …
Hello, Victor the Red here. I was going to post about me, and sharing a name with Victor the First, but that was covered in N for Names. So I'm going to answer the question 'how well do guinea pigs see?' under V for Vision. If you want to know more, read this article. How …
All this month I’ve been answering your questions. I’m Locksley, and my friends Ludo, Victor and Pippin are doing their bit too. These are the last questions which we didn’t fit into other letters. So they are Unanswered questions. Except for Auntie Noelle’s very clever question for U. There are some which we can't answer, …
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The first thing I thought of when we got the letter T, was 'Tortoise'. I'm Ludo, and I've been co-authoring this blog for longer than Locksley, so I met Artemis the tortoise first. I asked Mummy if he could do a Guest Post, although we hadn't heard from him for a while. He couldn't because …
Locksley here again today. We don't go to Shows, but Auntie Doris and Uncle Bob do a lot of them. Here we have invited their champion Marmalade to tell what it's like to go showing. I'm just going to add what Auntie Doris told me: most shows have classes for certain breeds, where you have …
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