George's Guinea Pig World
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George's Guinea Pig World is a blog about the everyday life of guinea pigs Biggles, Roscoe, Neville, Ludo, and Locksley. It also contains memories of Fred, George, Victor, and others. The blog was set up in 2009 by George. The goal of this blog is to help people understand more about their lives and what we do, eat, and everything. You can find lots of pages about being a guinea pig here.
George's Guinea Pig World
6d ago
Why am I doing Y for Years? I’m the Youngest, that’s why! I’m Pippin, and I’m two years old. Victor is three in June, Locksley is four in August and Ludo is five about now. We know Locksley’s and my birth dates, but not the others. Guinea pig v Human Years Many people like to ..read more
George's Guinea Pig World
1w ago
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 ..read more
George's Guinea Pig World
1w ago
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 ..read more
George's Guinea Pig World
1w ago
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 ..read more
George's Guinea Pig World
1w ago
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 ..read more
George's Guinea Pig World
1w ago
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 ..read more
George's Guinea Pig World
2w ago
All this month I’ve been answering your questions. I’m Locksley, and my friends Ludo, Victor and Pippin are doing their bit too. Here are some questions which didn’t fit into other letters so far. Questions and Answers Do guinea pigs have secret names like cats do? — ineffably How long have you been blogging ..read more
George's Guinea Pig World
2w ago
Hello, I’m Pippin. I’m answering someone’s question ‘what makes guinea pigs jump in the air?’ That’s called popcorning. What makes us Popcorn Anything really. We do it for fun. It’s for the joy of leaping the air and shaking or turning around and landing facing the other way. Sometimes we run around really fast then ..read more
George's Guinea Pig World
2w ago
Hello, I’m Ludo, and I’ve been researching our Origins for you. This is the answer to ‘where do guinea pigs come from?’ Deepest Peru Our ancestors came from the high grasslands up in the Andes, in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia among other places. According to Wikipedia, we were known to prehistoric man in 5000 BC ..read more
George's Guinea Pig World
2w ago
Hello, I’m Victor, and I’m answering the question ‘how did you get your names?’ Names people came with I came with my name. I think I’ve always had it, although I had so many homes before I came to mummy, I’m not sure. I was only one year old when I came here, but I’d ..read more