The guinea pigs didn't like being segregated
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (350762)
Rockingham, Australia
April 14, 2025 3:20am CST
The photo doesn’t have anything to do with the text but is a tribute to Austsralia’s Light Horseman. ANZAC Day is nearly upon us. It’s an important day for Australia. I haven’t got all my photos back yet.
I wrote a while back about our niece keeping her male guinea pigs in a ‘monastery’ and the females in a ‘convent’. However, it seems the males didn’t like being celibate and found their way into the convent to have their wicked way with the ladies therein. In a few weeks, we're going there to house-sit.
Thankfully, any baby guinea pigs that come from these unions should be born sometime after our house-sitting stint is over. We’ll be charged with looking after the pregnant ladies but hopefully won’t have six mothers and their babies to deal with.
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@DaddyEvil (145797)
• United States
14 Apr
I hope you enjoy the holiday.
What did your niece expect the guinea pigs to do? Stay celibate? They don't have a reason to do that. 
What did your niece expect the guinea pigs to do? Stay celibate? They don't have a reason to do that. 2 people like this
@wolfgirl569 (114471)
• Marion, Ohio
14 Apr
They knew what they wanted . Baby guinea pigs are easy to care for. They are basically mini adults.
. Baby guinea pigs are easy to care for. They are basically mini adults.1 person likes this
@JudyEv (350762)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Apr
@wolfgirl569 Exactly. We must make sure not to get too attached. 
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@allknowing (143677)
• India
15 Apr
Next time perhaps she could put them all together but use some birth control plans. Poor guinea pigs.
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@allknowing (143677)
• India
16 Apr
@JudyEv Here is what I found on the NetIn guinea pigs, preventing pregnancy can be achieved through separate housing, spaying/neutering, or contraceptive vaccines. Immunization with the sperm surface protein PH-20 has been shown to induce long-lasting and reversible infertility in both male and female guinea pigs. Additionally, hormonal emergency contraception (HEC) using progesterone receptor modulators (PRMs) like Ulipristal Acetate (UPA) has been studied in guinea pigs as a potential model for human HEC
@jobelbojel (36724)
• Philippines
14 Apr
I like the if there's a will, there's a way comment of Linda.
I second the motion.
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@FourWalls (73548)
• United States
15 Apr
Boys will be boys…even if they’re guinea pigs.
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@RasmaSandra (83878)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Apr
Well all the best to the guinea pig parents,
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@JudyEv (350762)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Apr
I'm so pleased I made you smile. My work for today is done. 
@Fleura (31448)
• United Kingdom
15 Apr
One of Little One's friends is very keen on guinea pigs and has several. From her we have learned a lot more about guinea pigs, which I would have expected to be fairly trouble-free pets, like hamsters, but apparently they are not! They are prone to all kinds of health issues, mustn't get too hot, or get wet in the rain, and most surprising of all females must breed before they are 6 months old!
When Little One told me that I thought she must have mis-heard and it should be older than 6 months, but no apparently not, because after that age the pelvis fuses making birth difficult and even life-threatening. Maternal mortality is very high.
You wonder how they survive in the wild at all!
Anyway I hope the owners are safely back before anything happens.
@LindaOHio (186538)
• United States
14 Apr
Oh my goodness. Where there's a will there's a way!
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@Beestring (15186)
• Hong Kong
14 Apr
Those male guinea pigs are smart. They've found the way to join the female ones.
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