Tips: Guinea pigs belong to wild protected animals. Protect wild animals from themselves, refuse to buy and sell wild animal products, and do not interfere with the free life of wild animals. At present, the consumption of precious and endangered wild animals in society is not only a bad social atmosphere, but also one of the reasons why illegal hunting and killing of precious and endangered wild animals are repeatedly prohibited. If you don't buy or sell, you won't be killed. Put an end to eating wild animals. They don't belong to the table.
First, how long does a guinea pig live?
1. Guinea pigs belong to the category of long-lived pets. In theory, it can live for more than 10 years, and it may be shorter in China. If the breeder takes good care of it, guinea pigs can live longer and live for more than ten years.
2. Guinea pig, also called guinea pig, is a tailless rodent with short limbs. After selective breeding, there are 20 guinea pigs with different phenotypes and different coat colors.
3. Because vitamin C cannot be synthesized automatically in guinea pigs, if vitamin C is lacking in food, guinea pigs will get scurvy. The symptoms of this disease are joint swelling, accompanied by pain, lameness and so on. If not managed, guinea pigs will be in danger of death. The treatment is to take vitamin C orally until the symptoms disappear. Vitamin c can also be added to the drinking water of guinea pigs, which has a good preventive effect.
Second, how to raise guinea pigs?
1, be sure to put some water in the cage when feeding guinea pigs, because guinea pigs especially like drinking water and don't like drinking dirty water, so be sure to prepare clean water, because guinea pigs will get sick if they drink dirty water.
2. When feeding guinea pigs, it is necessary to clean their cages frequently, because guinea pigs in cages are very annoying and must be cleaned every day, and guinea pigs don't like wet environment, so they must be kept dry.
3, guinea pigs like to eat everywhere, when feeding, be sure to prepare a container for guinea pigs, so that guinea pigs will not eat everywhere, but also ensure the cleanliness of food.
4. Guinea pigs don't like loneliness. They must be accompanied by people or animals. Don't always ignore them when feeding them. Always look at them and play with them, or put toys in cages and play with them.
5. When the weather gets warmer, you can let guinea pigs bask in the sun, but don't expose them to the sun, because it is easy to get sunburned or heatstroke, especially the ears of guinea pigs, which are more likely to get sunburned.
3. Do guinea pigs have infectious diseases?
1. Guinea pigs may carry some rabies virus, parasites, Yersinia pestis, etc. These diseases are contagious, especially to humans. For example, plague is an infectious disease, which can be spread by people and animals. This disease is first prevalent in mice and other wild rodents, and it can also spread to humans.
2. Plague is highly contagious and has a high mortality rate. The mortality rate of untreated bubonic plague is 50%-70%, and septicemia is close to 100%. Humans are also particularly vulnerable to infection.
3, in the process of feeding guinea pigs, we must pay attention to the usual health care, to ensure the health of guinea pigs is to protect the health of themselves and their families.