The BRODENTS! Rodent Enthusiast Thread!

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

Hi guys :3 So my gerbils keep digging up their water bottle spout and their food dish. I make a platform of bedding in their cadge then surround it with a bendy fiddle sticks bridge to make their food dish higher up bit they still manage to kick bedding into it. Any advise ?

I have my gerbils' food bowl on the top level of their cage so they don't do that.
And definitely switch to a water bottle. Rodents tend to be incapable of keeping water bowls clean lol.

They use a food bowl that was what. I was talking about. Also I don't have a cadge with a barred top because they bar chew.

Can you move the water bottle higher?

[Piggy Mike]

I have a guinea pig whose 3 different colors!

He's actually very shy..

And doesn't like to be petted. .

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

I have a guinea pig whose 3 different colors!

He's actually very shy..

And doesn't like to be petted. .

That'd be a calico.

[Piggy Mike]

I have a guinea pig whose 3 different colors!

He's actually very shy..

And doesn't like to be petted. .

That'd be a calico.

I know, I know!

0-0 I aint dumb..

Id like to have a couple other pigs.

[Gryffindor's Sword]

I have a guinea pig whose 3 different colors!

He's actually very shy..

And doesn't like to be petted. .

That'd be a calico.

I know, I know!

0-0 I aint dumb..

Id like to have a couple other pigs.

Actually, it'd be a tortoiseshell and white or TSW.TSW are black/red/white, if it's chocolate/red/white, cream/black/white, then we call it just that. Calico isn't a color with guinea pigs.

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

Really? I always just called those ones calico haha.

[Gryffindor's Sword]

Really? I always just called those ones calico haha.

Haha yep! When I started too breed guinea pigs, I was taught so much about the actual names of colors and the genetics that give us those colors. Thank god the breeders that taught me were patient. I was no easy teach A good TSW has clearly defined patches, but most TSW you will see at petstores have their colors brindled together (ex. Red streaked in a black patch) and thats what makes them look calico, so it's an easy mistake. Just like when people call creams blondes. Ugh..... Gotta love it

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

Really? I always just called those ones calico haha.

Haha yep! When I started too breed guinea pigs, I was taught so much about the actual names of colors and the genetics that give us those colors. Thank god the breeders that taught me were patient. I was no easy teach A good TSW has clearly defined patches, but most TSW you will see at petstores have their colors brindled together (ex. Red streaked in a black patch) and thats what makes them look calico, so it's an easy mistake. Just like when people call creams blondes. Ugh..... Gotta love it

I need to read up on colors of other rodents! I am pretty on point with rats and know the gist of gerbils and mice.

[Gryffindor's Sword]

Really? I always just called those ones calico haha.

Haha yep! When I started too breed guinea pigs, I was taught so much about the actual names of colors and the genetics that give us those colors. Thank god the breeders that taught me were patient. I was no easy teach A good TSW has clearly defined patches, but most TSW you will see at petstores have their colors brindled together (ex. Red streaked in a black patch) and thats what makes them look calico, so it's an easy mistake. Just like when people call creams blondes. Ugh..... Gotta love it

I need to read up on colors of other rodents! I am pretty on point with rats and know the gist of gerbils and mice.

I have a good link with the colors of guinea pigs, give me a second to find it!

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

Ok
The site I usually use as reference for rat colors is http://www.afrma.org/fancyrm.htm