[Gpdd] [behaviour] bathing and sky high

[Mikey]

hi everyone,

I am actually quite surprised that some guinea pigs don't like bathing. I 
used to bathe my boy guinea Winky. He did not seemed to mind. i could just 
put him in the sink with some lukewarm water in it, ,y hand under his belly 
and he wouldn't mind me letting him float in the water. My brothers'boy 
guinea though did not like it as much, he would always try to jump out of 
the sink. and since het had half long hair that would make everything wet.

For bathing my two girls i have a different method now. I just put a little 
bit of lukewarm water in the bath. Just enough for them to stand in and keep 
their head above the water without problems. The sides of the bath are too 
high for them to try and jump out of it. My Guiny seems to enjoy and like 
water, at least she not at all seems to be bothered by it. Lotje does not 
like it that much but she will undergo the washing. I always use a small cup 
to pour some water over them. 
just want to share this: as you all might know my piggies stayed at my 
sisters house when i lived in the Czech republic for 5 months and was not 
allowed to have guineas. the girls usually have their daily playtime, but 
right now them are not so active because its to hot here in holland (all 
summer was bad and cold and now holidays are over its super warm! it's not 
fair).
when they are outside their cage they are not allowed to move to one part of 
the room were the door is to the rest of the house and were there are a lot 
of cable of our computers and such. one time they crossed this line again, i 
guess they keep on trying. I have learned them a word, and when i call it 
them will stop doing what they are doing and know they are doing something 
wrong. i had the sprinkler (i'm not sure what's the exact english word for 
it, it's something were you squeeze the handle and water will be sprayed 
out, in a sort of misty form) near, at sprayed some at Guiny. and instead of 
disliking it and running away (like my winky would do) she came running 
toward me, with a look on her face like: "ow, that's great and refreshing do 
that again!"
turned out that my sister used to do that with them when it was really hot. 
In holland AC are not that common in living house, we do have them in 
offices though. So they were used to getting sprayed, i did not know that!

I read about the movie sky high and I want to see it. I was looking when it 
would come to Holland, but it will only be playing in the cinema's here on 
the 9th of February of next year :(
I'm not very happy with that... that will be like 5 months from now...

Mieke