About My Pet Guinea Pig

Guinea pig care advice online is a mess.

One forum says spinach is fine daily. Another says it causes bladder stones. The pet store recommends a cage that’s half the size your pig actually needs and pellets full of seeds and dried fruit. Three different sources, three different answers, and at least two of them are wrong.

I got tired of guessing who to believe, so I started checking for myself. Veterinary textbooks, published studies, breeders who’ve kept guinea pigs for decades. When the science and the experienced owners agree, that’s what goes on the site. When the pet store disagrees, I side with the vets.

I’m not here to sell you anything specific. If the budget option outperforms the expensive one, that’s what I recommend. If a popular product is genuinely bad for guinea pigs, I’ll tell you why.

No lab. No staff. I just check more sources than most sites bother to.

Why I Started

When I got my first guinea pig, I did everything wrong. Too-small cage, bad pellets, no vitamin C supplement. The pet store said a 2x2 cage was fine. It wasn’t. I only figured that out after spending weeks reading vet resources and talking to people who’d actually raised guinea pigs for years.

The more I learned, the more I realized how little reliable information existed in one place. So I started keeping a running document. Safe vegetables and how often to feed them. Early signs of respiratory infections. Which bedding controls odor without irritating their lungs. That document kept growing until it made more sense as a website than a private Google Doc.

“Pet store care sheets are written to sell products, not to keep your guinea pig healthy. I want to give people the advice I wish I had from day one.”