My Guinea Pig Keeps Tipping His Food Bowl Over

How do i stop my guinea pig from tipping his food bowl over.

My guinea pig keeps tipping his food bowl over. Or maybe the cage is too small it wants to get out. I have a pig who loves tipping stuff over. Little guy couldn t be happier. My daughter had this same problem with a pair of adopted guinea pigs.

On the off chance i gave him a small candy tin and he loves picking it up to throw it around. Why does my guinea pig dump his food bowl. I think you can pick one up at just about any pet store. Guinea pigs need a safe chew toy designed for guinea pigs to chew on.

Currently he is using a small dish at ground level and after we fill it he will take a few bites but then knudge his snout underneath the bowl and flips it emptying the contents into his bedding. But if you are talking about the cage floor maybe he likes to eat better that way and thats why hes tipping it over. I think the reason mine does it is because the guinea pig bowl i currently have for him is too large. Guinea pigs might be cute little pets but they can be messy eaters when they have to get to food in an unstable bowl.

My guinea pig can turn over ceramic bowls but can t flip his lixit nibble food bowl. We tried heavy ceramic and other bowls but the ch. My big male guinea pig does this with his bowl because he puts his paws on the side of the dish and knocks his bowl down. They wasted food and were not getting enough of the vitamins in the kibble because they dumped the bowl and didn t then eat it.

In general these are some common reason of them tossing one. He even taught one of our other girls how to pick it up and play with it. They are playing around the bowl and knocks the bowl playfully. Hello we are having a problem with our boar who has a habit of tipping his food bowl over.

And for the food bowl buy a heavier food bowl so your guinea pig wont have the strength to tip it over. Or should i let him eat. It s pretty cool said megan a scranton middle school eighth grader. Little animals like that often keep their food in their mouths and then hide it somewhere in the cage for later anyways so.

06 03 12 05 22 pm 8. Guinea pigs will dump their food bowl because of several reasons. That s why megan foster and her dad ken foster invented staybowl a pet food bowl they say will not tip over saving pellets and preventing a mess. If your guinea pig doesn t have enough space in the cage they might end up tossing away the food bowl.