10 cats and a guinea pig-okay idea or am I nuts???
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 8:18 am
Hello all!
I have not been on here for a LONG time....I hope that all are doing well taking care of our little friends! Our 10 cats are doing fine-causing problems like peeing in inappropriate places, throwing up wherever, being naughty, etc. all the usual crazy cat stuff but none are sick or injured right now. It's been a few years since we took them in to make 10, and sometimes it does get on our nerves (mine more that the better half) but like she said "we rescued them and saved lives; they wouldn't have survived outside" which is true-just wish we had a bigger house then a Cape Cod so we'd all have more space but I guess there are worse things in life!
Here is my question; I had a guinea pig when I was small MANY years ago and if it wasn't for the first stray we ever took in showing up 6 weeks after we put our dog down in 1995 my wife was going to buy me one for my birthday. Anyways, about 3 weeks ago we were shopping for cat food as usual this time at Petco and I said "I want to look at the guinea pigs" and really got attached to an albino one they had-he just looked so playful and is older then the rest-in fact he is now 20 % off because of that and the girl said "people probably don't want him because he is albino" He just looks White to me with red eyes! I even named him "Jerry", and have been kicking around ways to take him and house him safely in a house with 10 cats; we don't really have any rooms that we can put him in and close him off-the only room is the spare room but it has the litter boxes in. The ONLY thing I could come up with is put him in our living room next to the piano in a standing rabbit hutch, but I wonder will he be scared all the time? The hutches I see stand off the ground which is good, we could build a little "house" area inside it so he can go into and be isolated, but we know the cats will jump on the roof and I'm also hoping that they don't jump up and cling to the front of the cage with the metal meshing. Like the wife says we don't want him to live his life in fear as the cats surely will be "intrigued" by him, but as long as he is off the ground and secure would he be alright?
Like she also said "our problem is that we think with our hearts too much" which is what got us in here in the first place! That is the ONLY place that we could keep him that we see-the basement gets too cold or damp plus dark and that is not good; upstairs is WAY too hot so the only place is where I said and it would work-just do you think he and the cats can "co exist"????
Thanks so much-stay well!
I have not been on here for a LONG time....I hope that all are doing well taking care of our little friends! Our 10 cats are doing fine-causing problems like peeing in inappropriate places, throwing up wherever, being naughty, etc. all the usual crazy cat stuff but none are sick or injured right now. It's been a few years since we took them in to make 10, and sometimes it does get on our nerves (mine more that the better half) but like she said "we rescued them and saved lives; they wouldn't have survived outside" which is true-just wish we had a bigger house then a Cape Cod so we'd all have more space but I guess there are worse things in life!
Here is my question; I had a guinea pig when I was small MANY years ago and if it wasn't for the first stray we ever took in showing up 6 weeks after we put our dog down in 1995 my wife was going to buy me one for my birthday. Anyways, about 3 weeks ago we were shopping for cat food as usual this time at Petco and I said "I want to look at the guinea pigs" and really got attached to an albino one they had-he just looked so playful and is older then the rest-in fact he is now 20 % off because of that and the girl said "people probably don't want him because he is albino" He just looks White to me with red eyes! I even named him "Jerry", and have been kicking around ways to take him and house him safely in a house with 10 cats; we don't really have any rooms that we can put him in and close him off-the only room is the spare room but it has the litter boxes in. The ONLY thing I could come up with is put him in our living room next to the piano in a standing rabbit hutch, but I wonder will he be scared all the time? The hutches I see stand off the ground which is good, we could build a little "house" area inside it so he can go into and be isolated, but we know the cats will jump on the roof and I'm also hoping that they don't jump up and cling to the front of the cage with the metal meshing. Like the wife says we don't want him to live his life in fear as the cats surely will be "intrigued" by him, but as long as he is off the ground and secure would he be alright?
Like she also said "our problem is that we think with our hearts too much" which is what got us in here in the first place! That is the ONLY place that we could keep him that we see-the basement gets too cold or damp plus dark and that is not good; upstairs is WAY too hot so the only place is where I said and it would work-just do you think he and the cats can "co exist"????
Thanks so much-stay well!