We have a guinea pig and a new guinea pig hutch
Recently my daughter has got a guinea pig as a pet and I had to build a guinea pig hutch. I love guinea pigs so I was quite happy to buy a guinea pig for my daughter, and I quite like doing handyman stuff so building a guinea pig house was good fun.
I look at all sorts of designs for on the Internet, and read a lot about keeping guinea pigs. It was really quite entertaining doing the research to find out what you need to do to keep guinea pigs successfully, and what sort of guinea pig hutch they need to live in.
It seems from my research that most of the guinea pig hutches available from pet shops are too small, however most people buy these not understanding that guinea pigs need more space than is generally provided in a normal hutch sold in the pet shop.
So I decided to build a bigger hutch for her guinea pig and started researching. I spent quite some time looking at various designs and then I suddenly had a brainwave. I had the perfect guinea pig hutch already.
Some years ago I built a garden shed. It was intended that this be a cubby house for the kids until they grew too old to use it as a cubby house at which point it would become a regular garden shed. This was full of kiddy stuff, most of which I would happily have thrown away. So it seemed the perfect opportunity to do just that and to throw away much of the rubbish that had accumulated in the shed and to turn it into a guinea pig shed.
So that’s what I did. Most of the rubbish went out, some got burned and some went to the op shop, and I cleaned out the shed and turned it into a guinea pig hutch.
It’s certainly a palatial house for a guinea pig. If you don’t know guinea pigs they are probably only 6 inches long and full sized garden shed is a guinea pig mansion. The wire at the door so she can’t run out when she wants to if the door is open and I put hay over the floor of the shed so she doesn’t need to run around on a cold concrete floor.
So that’s the story of my daughter’s guinea pig and the fun that I had turning our garden shed into a guinea pig hutch.