Q: Next month, my daughter's friend will move away and give us her guinea pig. Miss Piggy will be our first guinea pig, and we don't know much about her care. For starters, should we continue to feed ...

Guinea pigs don’t make a fuss when they’re sick. They just keep nibbling, sitting, and acting like everything’s fine, until it really isn’t. Because they hide illness so well, small warning signs ...

Q: Next month, my daughter’s friend will move away and give us her guinea pig. Miss Piggy will be our first guinea pig, and we don’t know much about her care. For starters, should we continue to feed ...

"Fifty in one cage is too much," said Fiskett, a 25-year veterinarian whose practice focuses on guinea pigs and other exotic animals. Kirchner says that while his guinea pig population fluctuates, it ...

THAN JUST DOGS AND CATS AT YOUR LOCAL SHELTERS. IN FACT, AT THE CARROLL HUMANE SOCIETY, A LOT OF GUINEA PIGS ARE THERE RIGHT NOW. AND JOINING US WITH MORE IS DOCTOR LAURA OWENS FROM AIR PARK ANIMAL ...

Before we got our guinea pig, Jingles, I was pretty clueless about vet care for small animals, meaning the varieties that are not dogs and cats. When Jingles joined our family, I knew little about ...

Q I have a 2-year-old guinea pig who has started scratching herself quite a bit. I have an appointment to see the vet in two weeks but wonder if you can recommend something I can give her to make her ...

Been looking for a reason to turn down your child's pleas for a pet Guinea pig? Dutch researchers say the rodents may carry germs tied to serious pneumonia. But three adults in the Netherlands wound ...