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Super Poopers - Species appropriate nutrition for guinea pigs: A guide to adequate guinea pig food and to reduce your costs
Guinea pigs are very special and wonderful animals with very special needs! With this guide, you will learn in an easy and understandable way about the species appropriate nutrition of guinea pigs! You will be given many valuable tips and advice along the way so that you can offer your guinea pigs only the best of foods and help them to live a long, happy and healthy life.
It can be surprising that many people feed their pets contrary to their species appropriate diet. Of course, this does not happen on purpose, but mostly out of inexperience. People love their little rascals and only want the best for them.
Accordingly, people obtain information, get advice and study various guides. Unfortunately - or rather, to the detriment of animals - a huge amount of false information is disseminated, both on the internet and also in some guidebooks. There are simply too many dubious sources.
So how do you feed a guinea pig in a species-appropriate way? We want to get to the bottom of this question...
The author is an expert in animal care and animal nutrition. She has been taking care of rodents for over 25 years, primarily of guinea pigs, but also of rabbits and hamsters. She is happy to pass on her experience to other guinea pig keepers (and to those who want to become one)!
Have fun with the book – and to lots of new and helpful insights!
102 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 10, 2020
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March 12, 2022
It’s difficult to come across decent information on species appropriate feeding for a lot of our small pet animals, there are some great websites out there but books like this one are truly gold for pet keepers!
This book promotes many common sense husbandry practices that are becoming increasingly common but still unknown to many pet keepers, I truly feel this book is one every current or perspective Guinea pig owner needs to read.
Those who’ve reviewed this to say it’s promoting dangerous information really need to weigh up where the countering information is coming from. Funnily enough most are saying their vet, so I have some questions for you:
Where and when did your vet qualified?
Who funds the veterinary course that they qualified on?
Have they got specific training in nutrition (most aren’t required to do more than a couple days study in nutrition)?
What animals have they specifically studied in the way of nutrition?
And when was the last time they undertook CPD or looked at the most recent scientific literature for the nutrition of the specific animal?
While there are some truly fabulous veterinarians out there that keep up to date with the most ethical and effective practices a lot of owners would be very disappointed by the answers to the above questions.
Remember pet foods endorsed by vets are often because the vet gets financial gain from the agreement not because the vet truly wants to promote the food in question.
I haven’t kept piggies for several years but I do keep various other exotic pets and I can personally vouch that I’ve been given actively dangerous information from qualified vets that would have put my bearded dragons at high risk of developing photo-kerato-conjunctivitis and skin cancers. I mention this as no singular persons advice should ever be taken as complete fact, it should always be supported by up-to-date science and research.
Pellet/kibble foods are not something I would wish on my animals, these “nutritionally complete” dried foods can only be compared to nutritional medical drinks such as ensure or baby milk formulas, neither are recommended for life long use and are only promoted as a last resort…. Feeding our pets these bland, often processed foods should not be a norm as they are causing preventable health problems in basically every species we give them to. These problems are drastically shortening both the lifespan and health span of our beloved pets for no other gain than they are cheap, easy to sell and convenient for the owner.
I would like to keep Guinea pigs again in the future but have not been prepared to as I felt I was lacking information on appropriate feeding, so big thanks Alina for writing this brilliant book.
I’m hoping the author won’t mind me adding the recommendation of another short book called Forage & Medicinal Wild Plants For rabbits and Guinea pigs by NKLALKA, I feel is a great follow on from Super Poopers for those interested in foraging.
This book promotes many common sense husbandry practices that are becoming increasingly common but still unknown to many pet keepers, I truly feel this book is one every current or perspective Guinea pig owner needs to read.
Those who’ve reviewed this to say it’s promoting dangerous information really need to weigh up where the countering information is coming from. Funnily enough most are saying their vet, so I have some questions for you:
Where and when did your vet qualified?
Who funds the veterinary course that they qualified on?
Have they got specific training in nutrition (most aren’t required to do more than a couple days study in nutrition)?
What animals have they specifically studied in the way of nutrition?
And when was the last time they undertook CPD or looked at the most recent scientific literature for the nutrition of the specific animal?
While there are some truly fabulous veterinarians out there that keep up to date with the most ethical and effective practices a lot of owners would be very disappointed by the answers to the above questions.
Remember pet foods endorsed by vets are often because the vet gets financial gain from the agreement not because the vet truly wants to promote the food in question.
I haven’t kept piggies for several years but I do keep various other exotic pets and I can personally vouch that I’ve been given actively dangerous information from qualified vets that would have put my bearded dragons at high risk of developing photo-kerato-conjunctivitis and skin cancers. I mention this as no singular persons advice should ever be taken as complete fact, it should always be supported by up-to-date science and research.
Pellet/kibble foods are not something I would wish on my animals, these “nutritionally complete” dried foods can only be compared to nutritional medical drinks such as ensure or baby milk formulas, neither are recommended for life long use and are only promoted as a last resort…. Feeding our pets these bland, often processed foods should not be a norm as they are causing preventable health problems in basically every species we give them to. These problems are drastically shortening both the lifespan and health span of our beloved pets for no other gain than they are cheap, easy to sell and convenient for the owner.
I would like to keep Guinea pigs again in the future but have not been prepared to as I felt I was lacking information on appropriate feeding, so big thanks Alina for writing this brilliant book.
I’m hoping the author won’t mind me adding the recommendation of another short book called Forage & Medicinal Wild Plants For rabbits and Guinea pigs by NKLALKA, I feel is a great follow on from Super Poopers for those interested in foraging.
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