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Here are some general Guinea pig handling tips to make sure you have the most content and happy pet guinea pigs.
Food: – Guinea Pigs need vitamin C daily. However buying a brand of guinea pig food with added vitamin C is not sufficient; your guinea pig will need fresh food too. Fresh food they like; carrots, cucumber, celery, peppers, baby sweet corn, apple, grapes, melon, cauliflower leaves, and romaine lettuce. This is in combination with the dry general guinea pig food.
Checkups: – Make sure you check your guinea pig’s ear, eyes and nose daily. The ears should be warm, and eyes and nose should be clear and the eyes bright.
Teeth: – Guinea Pigs need to have a constant supply of fresh, non dirty hay to help them grind their teeth down. A hay rack is advisable so the hay is not on the bottom of the pen. If their teeth overgrow they will not be able to eat and a tell tale sign of this is saliva round the mouth.
Nails: – These will need trimming regularly. I suggest you go to the vets for this.
Grooming: – Some people groom their pigs daily (especially if they are long haired guinea pigs). Sometimes a quick coat trim is required if it is hot. Also a bath is required when your pig get smelly.

The lives of seals in Northumberland are being threatened by fisherman. The clever seals have learnt that to take fish from the nets of the fisherman as an easy meal, but the fishermen are claiming that this is costing them thousands of pounds every year. So, if they have a license, the fishermen are allowed to shoot the seals. This law applies in England, Scotland and Wales but in places like Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man it is now against the law. A row has broken out as people believe it should be made against the law everywhere. However it is being reviewed in Scotland so with any luck if it becomes against the law in Scotland it might set a president for the rest of the home nations.

Someone call the Animal Rights Groups, or at least Trading Standards.
A zoo in Gaza City, in the Middle East has decided to dye its donkeys! After the zoo’s zebra past away the cost to replace the zebra would have been £20,000. Due to strict rules the zoo would have had to smuggle them in so instead they decided to dye a couple of donkeys instead.
I don’t suggest trying this with your own pets though, the zoo had to use masking tape and black hair dye as the paint (!!!) they used the first time didn’t work.
Apparently the children don’t know any different and believe they are zebra, therefore leaving the zoo happy.

Sexuality in animals has often been debated – if humans can be straight or gay then it is logical that the differences can also appear in the animal kingdom too. However a zoo in Germany came under attack this week from Gay Rights groups. The zoo had discovered that three of its penguin couples we same sex couples (all males) and had taken a decision to introduce 4 female penguins in an effort to create mating couples. The Gay Rights Groups protested against the experiment claiming that the zoo was forcing the couples to part.
In a statement to the Major of the German city the Gay Rights Group were protesting against;

the organised and forced harassment through female seductresses

The zoo has now abandoned its plans for the penguins and now says;

Everyone can live here as they please