New guinea pig cage cleaning routine 🧽 portable washing machine 🧼 fleece bedding

Here's our updated guinea pig cage cleaning routine since the fleece bedding makeover! We use a portable washing machine and spin dryer to wash our IKEA TOFTBO bath mats. It works great! It's convenient and easy compared to how we used to wash fleece by hand in the kitchen sink. Now we've upgraded to doing laundry in the bath tub!

The miniature washing machine and clothes dryer are both KUPPET brand. The vacuum is the Bissell Pet Hair Eraser. All from Amazon.

In addition to washing 1 of the 3 carpet rugs every day, we also spot clean all the poops at least twice a day. Guinea pigs are very messy for such small pets! Cleaning up after them is a lot of the work of guinea pig care!

Bonus tips and tricks to prevent a clogged drain:
- Vacuuming out the fleece before washing removes a lot of hay and fur
- Washing the bedding in a mesh laundry bag prevents remaining hay from escaping
- A shower strainer catches hair that still manages to sneak through
WHAT’S PIGS?

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In June 2019 we adopted five pigs from Los Angeles Guinea Pig Rescue. They are cute herbivorous small pets with funny social interactions. We film all their behaviors, from happy guinea pig noises to eating sounds, playing with their food to sleeping with their eyes open, and occasional fighting. So far they have been most popular for their loud wheeking and rumblestrutting and their ridiculous guinea pig fights!

MEET THE PIG FAMILY

Spaghett is the boar of the herd. The rest of the pigs are females, but he’s a neutered male so they won’t be breeding. Sorry, no pregnant or baby guinea pigs! Spaghett has orange-brown ginger fur with a white crest on his head and cute red eyes. He goes on funny romps with entertaining popcorning and zoomies. He does hilarious rumblestrutting while purring.

Acorn is the youngest. She has white, black, and gold fur with a cute mousy face. She’s inquisitive, always wants food, and talks to herself while exploring hay piles. Little Acorn’s special talent is jumping on houses for rooftop adventures.

Butternut appears either confused or deep in thought. She has white and gold fur. Her hobbies include sleeping and yawning while flopped over with her feet sprawled out. She continues wheeking, squeaking, and squealing at us after we have already given her food.

Pumpkin has black fur except for white back toes. She looks like a cow, a non-guinea pig, and a rabbit. She has noisy standoffs with Acorn when Acorn gets feisty.

Zucchin is oldest and grumpiest. She has white and gray fur with cute red eyes. At first Zucchin fought with Spaghett. There were teeth chattering, nose raising, and hair puffing battles. Now they get along, but Zucchin is still a grouch. She enjoys lunging at anyone who comes near. She loves to chase other pigs out of their homes, then follow them to another home and chase them out of that one too. But she looks like a cute rat!

THEIR HOME

The pigs live in a custom 4 by 6 foot cage made by merging 3 Midwest Guinea Habitat cages. We cut the seams of the cage bottoms and joined them into one large cage liner. Now we have a MidWest cage of triple the size! The cage is on cheap folding tables so we can easily care for the pigs. They first lived in the 3 cages connected by ramps with DIY ramp covers we made by sewing blankets.

The bedding is IKEA TOFTBO bath mats. We’ve tried disposable paper bedding and fleece blankets with towels underneath. But this is the best guinea pig bedding we have found so far! It’s extremely comfortable and absorbent. We spot clean at least twice a day. And every day we wash 1 of the 3 carpet rugs in a portable washing machine in the bathtub and dry it using a spin dryer for laundry. It’s easy and convenient compared to washing fleece by hand in the sink!

The pigs prefer free stuff to actual guinea pig toys. They love to hide under packing paper. A DIY guinea pig house made from a cardboard box is a favorite hidey. They are not interested in chew toys.

THEIR DIET

Their favorite hay is Oxbow timothy hay. We get 50 pound boxes from Chewy. They also enjoy hay from Small Pet Select, KMS Hayloft, and Standlee. But they get most excited about fresh grass. They gobble up Sherwood Pet Health guinea pig pellets.

They eat nearly any vegetable. The only thing rejected so far was zucchini. Their favorites are dandelion leaves, fennel, cilantro, parsley, banana leaves, kale, collard greens, kohlrabi, carrot tops and roots, beets, bell peppers, corn with the husk, cucumbers, and pumpkin. They go wild for homemade wheatgrass sprouts.

Their water bottle is a 26 ounce Living World Eco+ glass bottle.

THEIR CINEMATOGRAPHY

The pigs are filmed with the latest GoPro Hero 8 Black in 4K.

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