At Neville’s Nest we aim to ensure every guinea pig going off to their new home will be kept in a warm, safe environment. For this reason, we only home to indoor set ups, inside your home. We don’t home to garages or sheds. Heated cabins or garden offices are also acceptable. Other requirements needed are below.
- Minimum 140 cm cage or a 2×4 C&C for a pair, see below for minimum size for larger groups
- We would recommend VetBed or fleece liners but other suitable disposable beddings can be found in this article
- Indoor run, or safe space for floor time. Ideally a run for the garden in summer
- An outdoor run is not essential (i.e you don’t have to have a garden) but preferred, this cannot be C&C and we would recommend a wooden, lidded run. More information can be found here
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Total of 3 hideys (for a pair/trio) including a wooden house & cosie. Plastic house, fleece corner forest or cardboard box are acceptable for the others.
- 2 sources of hay (for example; a hay rack and a hay pile/tray)
- No wood shavings or straw
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No hutches indoors. We need to see an indoor set up, cage, C&C homemade style.
- Ramps aren’t ideal, if there is a ramp, it must have at least a 5cm side.
Minimum Set Up Sizes – ‘Off-the-shelf’
To see how some of our adopters have set their cages up try taking a look here
To work how much space you need, each C&C grid measures 35cm
- Pair or Trio
- 140cm Cage
- 2×4 (or 12 grids total) C&C
- Up to 4
- 2×5 (or 14 grids) C&C
- Up to 5
- 2×6 (or 16 grids) C&C
