Litter Training and Wheat Grass Seeds!

-We apologize for the lack of pictures in this post due to technical errors with FB and Blogger in relation to posting pics using URLs-

O hai piggy friends! Sorry we haven't been updating as we usually do, we've been busy little piggies. Since our cage is bigger now, we're working double time trying to poop everywhere. Human has also been busy doing... Human stuff. But that doesn't mean we forgot all about her! No.

Recently we've been doing some litter training! It's working great with Mochi, but not so good with Loki and I. One thing we've learned is that we piggies naturally like peeing in one area, if you check under our fleece (if you're using fleece) only one part of the towel is stained. Aha... So "training" us to pee in a plastic pan is no problemo, we'll happily go wee-wee there. Pooping is another story and the tricky part of litter training, if not impossible. As piggies, we cannot control our pooping, if we have to go, WE. HAVE. TO. GO. We don't really understand how the few guinea pigs out there do it, but this is probably why people suggest to put hay near or on the pan because who doesn't like pooping at the same place they eat?

We're still unsure what litter to use, at first we thought about wooden pellets but if you think about it, it's just like wood shavings but in pellet form. Almost all the down sides of wood shavings are still present in wood pellets like the possible strong smells and feet irritation. In addition, wood pellets turn dusty when wet, it's very heavy, and not to mention more expensive than shavings (based from where we live). So far we've found four "brands" of wooden pellets... We actually forgot the names; one is commercialized for "small pets", one for cats, one we can't read because it's written in another human language, and last can be purchased at Polo Club.

Currently we're now using shredded paper, before it was toilet paper. It's not really the best, but it shall do for now! The problem with both is that it smells. That's all. We already ordered Carefresh from Herpaholic, we'll get it by Tuesday! Can't wait! It cost P500, no idea how big it's suppose to be and how long it will last. We've also made some homemade Carefresh! We're going to compare our homemade with the real stuff just to see what's up.

And chadaaa! We bought wheat grass seeds! We purchased it at Sulit.com.ph, from this friendly human who has found his way into our "favorite humans" list. Very easy to talk to and delivery was fast and cheap, this is a huge compliment after our recent and first experience with the 2 week delay from a certain courier... So we bought a kilo for P500. They're just seeds with instructions, we haven't done anything yet with our seeds other than take pictures of it. We just got it now, and we haven't really thought about the soil and tray part. We're trying to see if buying seeds can save us more money than buying a pack of wheat grass from the grocery. So, yeah that's what's been happening around our piggy nest. Litter, seeds, and Mochi-Mochi.