Cute Guinea Pig Pet Feeding
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In the wild, cute guinea pigs are prey animals, often of birds of prey. Therefore, many cute guinea pigs scare especially if the person wants to grab it from the top. Since they can not put up a fight against the hunters, their only chance, as soon as possible to achieve a safe hiding place. However, if they see no chance to escape more, they solidify a pillar of salt. Our cute guinea pigs have retained this behavior. So if your cute guinea pig sitting there frozen while you reach for him, this is not a sign that it is already looking to be taken equal.
The ideal case is certainly that your cute guinea pig already all know each other and form a harmonious group. Nevertheless, it is possible that a new cute guinea pig is set to a group. Long sleep phases cute guinea pig not a place, deep sleep phases are rare. Even if a cute guinea pig is sleeping seemingly deep, they immediately raise eg in an unfamiliar sound head. Throughout the day, however, the cute guinea pig resting over again. Sleep only after prolonged periods of stress or rest the animals often and / or longer. Johnny, Shirin and Weißpfötchen seemed to enjoy the rest and sleep to catch up after the five boys had left the enclosure, for example.
Over time, the man Andean cute guinea pigs reared for their meat and even in some areas to make clothes with their skin; a clear example is given in the Ecuadorian highlands and in the Andean region of Nariño in Colombia. In the Andean countries there is a stable population of roughly 35 million cute guinea pigs. Since Peru, the highest consumption and population of cute guinea pigs, with an annual consumption of more than 65 million cute guinea pigs, produced by a more or less stable than 22 million animals reared basically household production systems population. The estimated population self-consumption in Ecuador is 15 million head of cute guinea pig, seven very inferior to commercial production, estimated at 50 million.
The cute guinea pig is a very common animal experimentation biomedical research, hence the expression cute guinea pig or cavy is popularly synonymous with object of experimentation use. On the other hand, it is very important that all fresh food we give to our cute guinea pigs is at room temperature; you can never be fresh from the refrigerator. Guinea pigs tend to contaminate and clog their water bottles than other domestic rodents, chewing and the tube in order to obtain water, food particles introduced into the bottle. For these reasons, all food and water containers in particular should be cleaned regularly.
A healthy cute guinea pig is a happy animal with shiny hair, chubby, well developed and eating well. One of which is sick when separated from others, is cornered, is fallen, will not eat, he ruffles his hair, he sinks his belly, has diarrhea and weight loss quickly. In this case must be separated quickly from others lest they infect and consult a veterinarian specializing in exotic animals.
Guinea pigs are in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador is still an important food animal that is often kept in the house. The animal will include fed leftovers from the family, much like in Europe earlier chickens or pigs were kept. Under the name cuy (pronounced cow) yet it is now roasted and sold in markets. Guinea pigs are the main menu on some wedding parties in Peru and perform in traditional healing rituals role trap of evil spirits. The traditional healer used the beast to take over the body of the patient, the cute guinea pig takes on what is wrong with the patient. The physician then looks into the entrails of slaughtered cute guinea pig and can thus determine what is wrong with the patient.
Guinea pigs are rodents on the large side, they weigh between 500 and 1500 grams and are 25 to 30 cm long. The wild form remains smaller, up to 700 grams. For most domesticated animals is that they are bigger than their wild counterparts. Guinea pigs are on average about 5 years old, up to about 8 years. They are social animals that live in the wild in small groups consisting of one male, several females and young.
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