Can Guinea Pigs Eat Mangosteen?

Mangosteen is an exotic fruit that the Guinea Pig Hutch lists on their "question food" list. However, we found a research paper that showed mangsosteen has anti-inflammatory effects on guinea pigs, so we figured it's probably safe to try. Since we don't know a lot about it, we'd recommend feeding it only as an occasional treat.

This is a mangosteen.

Cut it open, and feed us the white part only (minus the big seed).

Yum!

Mangosteen is sweet and delicious, and we even licked the juice off the plate after we ate the fruit. 5/5 stars!

Guest Piggies: Pop Tart And Scout

 

Pop Tart and Scout are the two lovely piggies you see above. Their humans are Christian, Sara, and Robert, and Pop Tart is best friends with Lola, their mixed breed terrier.

Pop Tart is a fiend for cilantro. They are both in love with romaine lettuce and green peppers, and apples always hit the spot.

We love all those foods, too! But I don't know about Lola the terrier. I think we'd probably run away and hide in our pigloos if we saw her. Pop Tart and Scout must be very brave. 

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We've Hit 100 Followers!

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As a special thank you for helping make this blog great, we're holding a new giveaway!

Not one but 3 lucky winners will win a handmade GUINEA PIG CAPE with your guinea pig's name on it! To enter, just comment on this post and let us know that you wish to be included in the drawing and what your piggie's name is (one cape per winner). The only condition is that you must be a follower of the blog and have a mailing address in the Continental United States to be eligible.   

The winners will be chosen names-out-of-a-hat style and announced next Monday August 27th, 2012. 

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Product Review: Simple Rewards Veggie Treats

Today we're going to review Simple Rewards Veggie Treats.We liked the Simple Rewards Papaya Treats and Timothy Treats, so we couldn't wait to try the veggie treats.

Can't wait to try it!

Yum!

Those treats made us really thirsty! Let me at the water bottle, Broccoli!

These treats were just as tasty as the other ones, but I think they must have had a lot of salt in them because we couldn't stop drinking from the water bottle afterwards. We give them 4/5 stars.

Can Guinea Pigs Eat Nectarines?

Did you know that nectarines are actually just a type of hairless peach? Since we've reviewed peaches before, we had a pretty good idea of what we were in for with nectarines. As with peaches, nectarines have a lot of sugar, so you should only feed us small portions 1-2 times per week.

The humans have learned to cut up foods into small, thin pieces to make it harder to hog it all.

Hogging it all is so fun, though!

All for me! Haha!

I love it, although Broccoli got bored and wandered off to eat hay. I guess I'll give it 4/5 stars since he didn't like it, but Buffy and I loved it.

Inquiring Humans Want To Know

Can Guinea Pigs Eat Parsley?

We received another food suggestion from Willow, who said we should try parsley. The humans tried telling us that they've already bought plenty foods for us, but we weren't willing to accept that answer. We wheeked until they gave in and bought us parsley.

Parsley can be fed to us 2-4 times per week.

Let me show you my disappearing parsley trick. Now you see it...

...Munch, munch, munch...

...and now you don't! Great trick, huh?

Parsley gets 5/5 stars! Thanks for the suggestion, Willow!