How To Maximize Your Guinea Pigs' Cage Space 

It can not be a "Scotty's Animals" video without an appearance by "Noisy Nate"

i am morning my lose of my guinea pig that passed away weds night and im devistated and my emotions are everywhere and my body doesnt know what to do but get anxiety. been hard watching guinea pig vids without wanting to cry. but still loving the vid and your channel. im just having it rough.

I just wanted to thank you so much for your channel!!! I bought 3 guinea pigs in 2018 from Petco and they said they were starter pets and just needed a small cage and hay. I had no idea what to do with them so I did some research and went through like 5 different cages, bedding, different types of food etc. I finally found your channel and bought a c&c cage, and different food and mirrored one of your cage set ups for my piggy. He's so happy now and I can't thank you enough! I really wish Petco would educate us more before we buy. I now know to adopt which I will be doing in the future. Thank you again for everything you do!!!! You really make a difference!!!

Nate always steals the spotlight 😂😍

I love that happy little chirp they make when they're exploring something new

I just received my two male Peruvian piggies, Elvis and Jake. Your videos are beyond amazing! Thank you for guiding me through the life of piggies, I want them to have a happy healthy beautiful life. God bless you and the shelter for all you and they do..I subscribed.

Hi Scott!🤗🤗🤗 thank you for the update. With your boys. Love um.

Things look good I know anytime I rearrange my piggie house girls get so excited and popcorn around with joy your boys are so cute THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO FOR THE GUINEA PIG WORLD 😊

6:29 Nate was the best water drinker. 😅🥰

Aww..the gray one is so cute..looks like a bunny!!! 💖💖

Great setup😊 Took me a long time to figure out a clear path is best. My girls get the zoomies and the popcorns everytime I clean up their cage, so cute, makes me think that they are happy 😁 The boys looked so cute cuddled up, on the blanket 🥰

My piggies would fight over who owns the spot everytime their pen is being cleaned. Usually i put puppy pads at the bottom and then the shavings. It smells much less that way too. I also have the same setup, with their house on the sides and plenty of space in front. I got 8 x 6 foot pen with open space for them to roam around.

Omg!! Scotty I followed your advice and rearranged their cage and play area... I got zoomies this morning!!! I was so happy.. sebastian was prompting Valentino to chase him through the tunnels and around the back of the play area house all around!! This is the first time I've seen this in my boys..xoxoxo thank you💗💗💗

I love this channel. I’m a new owner and these videos are always so helpful. Big thanks from me and the girls.

Hay that’s not fair Nate should be able to drink all he needs ,please don’t yell at nat he does not understand he not in erupting me, l love ❤️ hearing them drink from the water bottles and on other videos I have seen and heard the Guinea pigs drinking from their water bottle. Please don’t take me the wrong way.you are a very special person that rescues the Guinea pigs that desperately needs your help,love and forever home and if I weren’t for you so many Guinea pigs would be suffering in pain and passing away before they could live the rest of their life’s, thank you so much, because for every Guinea pig that you save is one more pig that wouldn’t have to suffer in pain and pass away so keep up the great work that you do to take care of them.

CONGRATS ON 50,000 SUBS

Love!!! Awesome you got the 3 together! Love the Cage!

I have experimented with fleece bedding, puppy pads, loose bedding, newspaper and paper towels. All have pros and cons but after discovering dozens of newly hatched flies in the room that must have hatched from eggs laid in loose bedding a few days ago, I have sworn not to use loose bedding but only fleece from now on since the waste can be swept up and discarded. All it took was 1 fly. I had put new bedding just a few days ago. Fleece is best and wins out. Love this channel. Learned how to best care for piggies here and on Saskia's channel.

Extremely cute piggies 😍 Now my guinea pigs want more guinea pig friends even though we just got one from the rescue 😂

OMG that is a huuuge piggie leap!!! the new cage look so heavenly!

Great job , Scotty

Looks great Scotty. Love seeing all the boys cuddled up

Life looks good when you're armed with guineapig knowledge. And Guineapigs 🤗

Yayyy!! I’ve needed this video! What cuties your piggies are

I love love love your videos! Thank you for educating us🥰 Also, your personality is the best😂😍 Love from Greece and Sweden❤️🇬🇷 🇸🇪

Great setup Scotty, I love it they look so happy 🥰🥰🥰

OMG Nate cracks me up😂🤪🐹love it! Hi Scotty

I feel blessed that my boys let me pet them in the cage. Clay has learned to beg for chin strokes, usually when I’m cleaning. Or just in the room. They have a place to bed for pets and another place to beg for treats.

You just gained yourself a new subscriber :D

It looks realy cute with al the houses and colorful tunnels. Looking at this I think mine need more houses 😯

NICE VIDEO!! bdw congrats on 50 k

This is so helpful!! My piggies’ cage is so big anyway 😂 but maximizing the space is still AWESOME!

I was using fleece and found that was a lot of work, so then I change to pine which was good but created a lot of waste and filled my garbage, so now I use bath mats that dry fast and keep their little feet dry

The cage set up looks really good Scotty so spacious and those piggies are so cute

Great set up. I like to see what evy one else does. I like changing things up for my 3 boys also. 👍

Congratulations on 50k 😊

I dont know if anyone has suggested it but I have been using mattress pads as the absorbent layer for our fleece. Its easy to cut and you can find them at second hand stores pretty often for just a few dollars so its reasonable and recycling :)

I've been using fleece in the winter but I am considering using the aspen pine shavings because washing so much is exhausting sometimes. I am also extending my cage around Thanksgiving because I found a brand new box of grids for 13.00 at the Goodwill.

Scotty thanks so much for sharing all the valuable info for guinea pig owners!!

They love it!

Early! Can't wait to get my future piggies :)

Just subscribed to your channel. Love the boys already. ❤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I like the set up :) Reminds me a little bit of how I do things I find mainly baby Piggies do zoomies and as they get older they tend to not do zoomies anymore

Looks like approved! TFS!

Also they hate most food bowls I tried EVERYTHING I had to use corner litter trays zip tied to the C&C cage. 🤦🏼‍♀️ they kept flipping and spilling food everywhere and being wasteful. Im just glad the littler trays worked 😌 🙏

Lol! Your "Hello good boys!" activated my Google home device and it asked me if I wanted to see cat videos? Nope. I'm watching piggies!!

Hey Scotty! I need some advice or tips for my cleaning routine! It’s quite hard to find the poo in the pine shavings? Any tips

Haha at the beginning it sounds like saskias voice for me. And o thought huh? Is saskia visiting your Piggies? 😂

Aw love those boys. Hey Scotty you should do some Christmas tees xx

Not hating, love your videos Scott, but that's a small setup for three boys right?

Thank you for this video, now I have a lot of ideas of a better setup😀

My girls do their zoomies at 5am, I wish they would do it later on because I love watching them do their laps, it’s so cute

Hello!!!! I love ur videos ❤️

Cute!

Can you please put the website that you bought your 2x4 guinea pig cage on because I want the one you have I have 3 guinea pigs and I need to bring them indoors and I need some 2x4 cages please love your videos keep making more thanks 👍❤️

So cute video helpful

Can’t wait to watch this. I need to make more creative use of my rodent room space. They all have appropriate sized enclosures but the room is super squashed.

Squiggy will do zoomies when I clean out his cage and things and Lenny it so cute to watch got me laughing

Great video 😀👏🏼🐹♥️

Do you have pigs that can get over the cage? I think my pig could so is there a solution? I’m think maybe adding another wire on top? Would that work?

omg they're super adorable !!!

Nate is just like " I'm just thirsty ok?"

Cool video

That is such a great use of space. How many piggies do you have in that room? I love your vids. By the way, you are seriously fine and wonderful. Such a great heart. Beautiful on the inside, sexy on the outside. Thx for sharing your knowledge.

Where do you get that little fence tunnel along side the cage???

I have two girls and I absolutely love them.

Hey Scotty!

I'm so glad your piggies run from you too! I've hand fed for months and none of them will let me pet them in the cage. 😂

In the beginning of the video, it seems like Dice is sitting with his mouth open for no reason, and that made me worried about teeth problems... Maybe you should get that checked out. Great video, btw :)

I use to use shavings for bedding but it got too messy. My piggies don’t drink a lot of water but they’re fine. I figure they’re getting it from veggies?

What bedding type do you use?

Hi Scotty! I just found your channel and absolutely love it. I am hoping to get a couple piggies soon so I have been doing lots of research. I just had a quick question about bedding. I am debating between the pine chips you use and fleece and was wondering if there is any harm in changing the type of bedding you use. If I used one for a little while and then wanted to try the other kind, would that cause any issues with my pigs? Thanks!

I love your cages! I really want to make one (I saw your instruction video!) but I need a lid because we have a dog and cat as well. Is it possible to make a lid with these grids as well?

Hi ! Thanks for all your video ! Do you use tap water or bottled water ? Thanks in advance for your answer :)

I always have a water bottle per a piggie. I once read a story on Facebook that a lady with a mouse found her buddy wasn't alive. The bottle was not working. I know piggies bite and pull... But I have ocd so I can't get that out of my head. Even nice and eat enclosures have 3 to 5 bottles per cage. We sometimes throw away water but it's just one of those things. They also only drink purified water with no chemicals in it. We can drink the tap water, but their little bodies cannot handle those chemicals.

I have a two by three c and c cage for my two guinea pigs and they don’t fight at all is that okay for them?

Could you please make a video about Guinea pig massages?

My girl Judy used to have the Zoomies she would literally same time every morning run around her cage and get her exercise. My boys have twice the amount of space that she had where I have them in a cage but the cage door is always open and there is a play area that they could go in and out whenever they want and they don't do the Zoomies. I'm curious about that. She used to love to run around these guys don't. I wonder if there's something that I'm doing wrong with them

I need help! We have two female guinea pigs. Before they used to get along very well. Now that one of them had a baby, they cant stand each other :(. Now that the baby guinea pig is bigger and older, we want to start re introducing them so they all share their cage. What can we do so they can all get along? What videos do you recommend I watch.The 2 older pigs are 1 year old and the baby pig is about to turn 6 months. Thank you!

Putting the water bottle on the outside of the cage will give them more space. It may also save on an eye injury from them running into it. just a thought.

May I ask how big exactly is this cage I want to do a new setup for mine?

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Thier so cute aadorable

Do you measure your pellets?

Paying for that

Question I've used both fleece amd shavings and one of my piggies gets these spurs on her feet no matter what bedding I use. Are some puggies susceptible to this, is it a fungus growth? I bathe her one a month and I am not sure if thats too much...

My 2 guinea pigs almost never drink from their bottle. I clean it every day but the water never seems to go down. They know you to drink from it though because I sometimes put homemade orange juice in it instead and they love that. But they get a lot of veggies twice a day. Should I be worried? Cause I'm impressed of how much Nate actually drink

I have a question. Do you have to give them fresh hay and water each day or if there is water and hay left over from the next day can I keep it there

Are these boars fixed?

Hey! i love your videos! i allready have 2 boys, i've allways wanted to introduce a 3rd, but i've been told boys can be very agressive in threes :C Any advice?

They say psying to get your animals created do yu know where thankyu

I didn't see a litter box in there.

I find shavings better than fleece😊

Hi Scotty I have two piggies and I had to separate them because one is sick and the vet said to separate them. One piggie gets the big cage the other lives in a bin cage. This is just temporary for about 2 weeks. For the pig with the bin cage does not have a lot of space to run around in. What is a cheap way to let her get exercise??

Am wondering if boars are easier to tame since yours are so calm in your hands. My fems still act scared and fuss to be returned to pen. I do all I learned here and from LA Rescue. I am home 24/7 go visit piggy room a lot each day, bring fresh produce, handle them a lot and have a calm environment with no kids around them. Are fems harder to tame?

Nate doesn't care about your video! He needs his water!

Where can i get 2 snimals creatmated pet hamster an s gen pig

My pig always backwashes in her water bottle 😣

Popeyes so cute

I put kitty litter under the pine shavings. Dry is better!