Tiger and Piggles

We have two fat guinea pigs. One is named Tiger and his brother is named Piggles. They look almost exactly alike except Piggles has curly hair.  Both of them look like rodent Yorkshire Terriers.  Tiger is more outgoing and personable. Piggles is shy and prefers to hide most of the time.

Tiger with the straight hair 

Tiger 

 Shy Piggles has curly hair 

The guinea pigs live indoors in a cage that I designed and Big Daddy built.  It is a coffee table with a removable lid.  Guinea pigs are prey animals and quite nervous so the lid gives them quite a bit of comfort. But they still like to be inside of their little houses-- inside the cage. Very nervous!!
A lot of thought went into the building of this cage. And it is the most awesome guinea pig cage ever!!!The bottom of the cage is a shower pan liner made of metal. It just sits inside the wooden structure. The whole metal liner pan can be removed and washed with a hose outside. I put newspaper on the bottom and then hay and the piggies love it. When it is time to clean the cage, I just roll up the newspaper on the bottom.
Our guinea pigs always have access to a guinea pig/rabbit pellet but their diet mainly consists of vegetable scraps and grass from outside. We do not spray for weeds or bugs--so our grass is delicious for the piggies. One of the children's daily chores is to pick grass for the guinea pigs. It takes about 1 minute but they still complain!

Their cage is a coffee table 

Side view of their house---easy construction

The lid is completely removable 

Cage with the lid off 

The pigs have a half bucket and a plastic dishpan as little houses

Pigs in their houses 

Before they had the plastic houses, they lived in beer boxes 

We put the cage by the window so they could have a view