Kitty88
Well-Known Member
I asked my 13 year old brother what he really wanted for Christmas a few weeks ago, expecting him to say Playstation 4 or XBox One, and was pleasantly surprised when he told me he really wanted a guinea pig. My father and I had already discussed him having his own pet, so I immediately began planning to surprise him with a pair of piggies for Christmas. However, I'm a little paranoid about the risk of the pigs getting sick from the rabbits, who have been around for four and a half years. Here's the situation;
A) the guinea pigs are going to live in the bottom level of my leith condo, which is currently not in use and hasn't had a rabbit in it since the night I adopted Dewey. Plus, they were only actually in there for about six hours before they moved to their playpen.
B) After Linus passed away, I washed the rugs that line the leith, rinsed them with white vinegar, and dried them in the sun for two days, which I'm pretty sure would kill any type of germ a rabbit could've left on them.
C) The piggies will have to spend a couple of days in close proximity to Dewey and Gracie, but they will be on their own cage that has been properly doused with a judicious amount of white vinegar beforehand.
So, I'm just being paranoid, right? I've heard of people letting guinea pigs and rabbits play together, so surely they're not going to catch some communicable disease from spending a few days in the same room?
A) the guinea pigs are going to live in the bottom level of my leith condo, which is currently not in use and hasn't had a rabbit in it since the night I adopted Dewey. Plus, they were only actually in there for about six hours before they moved to their playpen.
B) After Linus passed away, I washed the rugs that line the leith, rinsed them with white vinegar, and dried them in the sun for two days, which I'm pretty sure would kill any type of germ a rabbit could've left on them.
C) The piggies will have to spend a couple of days in close proximity to Dewey and Gracie, but they will be on their own cage that has been properly doused with a judicious amount of white vinegar beforehand.
So, I'm just being paranoid, right? I've heard of people letting guinea pigs and rabbits play together, so surely they're not going to catch some communicable disease from spending a few days in the same room?