Training Your Guinea Pig (Training Your Pet Series)

Training Your Guinea Pig is for pet owners who seek detailed advice on how to get started in training their guinea pig. Guinea pigs are docile, easy to care for, and are capable of learning tricks. Teaching you first how to earn your guinea’s trust and friendship, this relationship will be the building blocks to training tricks, enrichment games, and commands.

Additional knowledge and advise in this book consists of the correct cage or DIY housing, toys and enrichment information, guinea language and communication, advise on getting all members of the household acquainted, and keeping a healthy and content guinea pig. The suggests activities within these pages will amuse both pet and owner and quickly become a trusted life-long resource for these unique and smart animals.

From the Publisher

Why should you train your guinea pig?

When you’re teaching new skills to a cavy, you’re challenging it physically and mentally. What a great way to improve your pet’s quality of life! Second, training time equals bonding time. During training sessions, you’re spending quality time with your guinea pig, and that’s never a bad thing!

Training Your Pet Guinea Pig

By Gerry Bucsis and Barbara Somerville

Are you thinking of making guinea pigs part of our family? This book will advise you on all aspects of caging, feeding, handling, and daily care. You’ll also find advice on how to get all members of your family acquainted with their new pet, as well as instructions for teaching these delightful animals to perform a variety of behaviors. Includes dozens of full-color photos.

With this book you’ll get:

Pointers on choosing a guinea pig for your home and family Advice on caging, feeding, toys, and equipment Step-by-step instructions for lure and clicker training

Here are just some of the neat tricks you can teach your guinea pig

Rolling a Ball

Place your piggy and small ball into a play area. Now sit back and watch. Your cavy might be curious (especially if you rub the ball with a piece of cucumber or parsley) and might nudge the ball with its nose. If so, you’re in luck! You’ve captured the behavior, so click and treat. Then wait and repeat.

Stand Up

Most guinea pigs look pretty cute when they stand up on their hind legs and beg. And it’s a simple trick to teach them with the lure-award method. All you need is a little patience and a supply of veggie treats.

Leash Walking

Everyone knows that dogs need to be walked, but have you ever thought about walking your cavy? Why wouldn’t your piggies enjoy a whiff of fresh air as well? To make this happen you just have to be safety-conscious and use your common sense.

Coming When Called

When playtime is over, how are you going to catch your cavies to put them back in their cage? The answer is simple: teach them to come when called, and save yourself and your cavies a lot of hassle.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sourcebooks
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2011
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764146254
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764146251
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.28 x 7.88 inches
Part of series ‏ : ‎ Training Your Pet Series
Best Sellers Rank: #161,124 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #10 in Pet Mice, Hamster & Guinea Pig Pet Care
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