Product Description
The Collins Family Pet Guide series are attractive, colour-illustrated guides that give all the practical advice necessary for raising healthy, happy pets.
This comprehensive guide to caring for your guinea pig is full of expert practical advice. All aspects of everyday care are covered but, in addition, there are lots of interesting facts and anecdotes about one of Britain’s most popular pets.
Guinea pigs are ideal family pets as they are practically odourless, cheap to feed and maintain, easy to handle and very rarely bite.
Collins Family Pets: Guinea pig has information and advice on:
Acquiring a guinea pig
Accommodation
Feeding your guinea pig
Handling and grooming
Behaviour
Breeding
Basic veterinary care
From the Back Cover
A practical family guide, full of helpful information and expert advice to all aspects of owning a guinea pig.
• Origins and history
• Acquiring a guinea pig
• Housing
• Everyday care and feeding
• Handling and grooming
• Behaviour
• Breeding
• Basic veterinary care
Illustrated throughout with attractive colour photographs, this is the ultimate book for all guinea pig owners.
About the Author
Peter Gurney is author of three books about guinea pigs and regularly visits Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital with his guinea pigs. He also works in close association with the Cambridge Cavy Trust.
