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Cavy Spirit and Cavy Cages
Welcome to the Cavy Spirit family of albums, including Cavy Cages!

Cavy Spirit is a Guinea Pig Rescue and Adoption home. We take in abandoned guinea pigs and place them, healthy and happy, in high quality, permanent homes. We focus on education and public awareness of the proper respect and care that these and all animals deserve. We are committed to breaking the chain of neglect, abuse, and abandonment.
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Debbie's 3-Story
1.Debbie's 3-Story

This is Debbie's 3 story cage with ramp.

From Debbie: "The basic setup is made from cubes & coroplast. The ramps are made from standard 6" pine from Home Depot. The ramps are easily removable and are tight-fitted and use pressure to keep them in place. The ramp has traction tape (used for stair treads) to give the piggies footing and also keeps their nails trimmed because of the sand paper finish. Areas that would expose them to a fall are enclosed by ramp or the cube material. We put holes in the ramp for reduction of overall weight, light transmission, and observation of the piggies. We have had this set-up now for about a month and have not had any problems with it to speak of. The cleaning is done by removing the ramps and 4 hutches and the hanging hammock, we use a small dust pan and brush to clean the levels out and replace with fresh materials. It takes about 5-10 minutes to do a complete cage clean-up. The cage is very sturdy and can be picked up because all sections and corners have plastic electrical ties binding them tightly together."

To get the materials to make this yourself, please visit www.CAGETOPIA.com!

October 28, 2003
12 Items
Shared Album
9930 Visits
Great Guinea Pig Photos
November 11, 2008
18 Items
Shared Album
31057 Visits
Cavy Cages - Free Range - Joyce
3.Cavy Cages - Free Range - Joyce
Cagetopia has info on cages and materials for creating your own awesome habitat. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album is of Joyce's Free Range set up.
March 9, 2002
6 Items
Shared Album
9786 Visits
Cavy Cages - Hay Racks
4.Cavy Cages - Hay Racks
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways. If you have any questions, please post them on the Cavy Cages Forum. Feel free to post comments in the guest book and on individual photos, but please post questions on the forum.
This album highlights photos of Hay Racks. Most of these hay racks are secured with cable ties, sometimes looped together. It's just easy to do.
March 3, 2002
28 Items
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17096 Visits
Lucky
5.Lucky


On Chrismas Day, as a family was gathered in their livingroom, they saw a large hawk come swooping in and land in the middle of their lawn. It had a white ball of fur that was "wheek, wheek, wheeking." It dropped the guinea pig which ran scurrying for the bushes. They ran out and with the help of friends managed to capture the terrified guinea pig. The hawk flew up to the fence and waited and watched for over an hour. Robbed of his Christmas Day dinner, the hawk finally flew away frustrated and hungry.

Normally, hawks make the killing strike with their back talon through the internal organs of their prey. This may have a been a younger hawk with less experience.
December 31, 2004
20 Items
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14560 Visits
Cavy Spirit Residents
6.Cavy Spirit Residents
Sponsor a Special Piggie!

These piggies are permanent residents at Cavy Spirit. If we can find a great adopter that would be willing to take any of these groups and provide them with the proper care and veterinary treatments, that would be great. However, those kinds of adopters are very rare.

Most of these guinea pigs are senior citizens that have health issues. Also, while a few of the guinea pigs are in good health, some of those are in highly bonded groups with other unadoptable guinea pigs.

We currently have 3 groups of permanent residents (12 piggies total):
The Tina Group (5), The Picachu Group (3), and the Lucy Group (4).
December 6, 2004
40 Items
Shared Album
16321 Visits
1 Item
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Cavy Spirit - Poor Piggies
8.Cavy Spirit - Poor Piggies
Cavy Spirit is a Guinea Pig Rescue and Adoption home. We take in abandoned guinea pigs and place them, healthy and happy, in high quality, permanent homes. We focus on education and public awareness of the proper respect and care that these and all animals deserve. We are committed to breaking the chain of neglect, abuse, and abandonment.

This album is of the piggies that come to our rescue in a sad state. Acorn and Thumper were dumped on the doorstep of an SPCA Thrift Store. They came to us a few days later. Photos 1-19 were taken when we received them on 3/25. Photos 20-32 were taken after coming back from the vet on 3/26. Photos 33-43 were taken a couple of days later on 3/28. Photos 44-63 were taken at Day 12 on 4/5.

Thumper and Acorn are now GREAT! They were back to normal in LESS THAN ONE MONTH. I didn't have time to take photos until 7 weeks, but they were quite fine in less than 4 weeks.
March 25, 2002
72 Items
Shared Album
8417 Visits
Cavy Cages - Cool Ideas
9.Cavy Cages - Cool Ideas
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways. If you have any questions, please post them on the Cavy Cages Forum. Feel free to post comments in the guest book and on individual photos, but please post questions on the forum.
This album highlights photos of Ideas to Keep Cavies COOL in the Summer Heat!
July 1, 2002
2 Items
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8623 Visits
Adoptables
10.Adoptables
Want to Adopt a Guinea Pig or Two? Please see our adoption requirements and online application for these lovely piggies on the Adopting page.Some guinea pigs are available to be paired up with a guinea pig that you may have at home. But some of them are bonded pairs or trios and need to stay together. Please do not expect questions posted in the guestbook below to be answered. You must contact us via email or phone or online adoption application for a response. Please note that any guinea pigs currently in foster homes are so indicated with the town they are living in. We usually bring the guinea pigs someone is interested in to the main Cavy Spirit rescue in San Mateo for the adoption process.
PLEASE NOTE: COMMENTS that contain repeating letters or punctuation WILL BE DELETED! (for example: awwww)
9 Items
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84094 Visits
Events
18 Items
Shared Album
4477 Visits
Cavy Spirit - Favorite Photos
12.Cavy Spirit - Favorite Photos
Cavy Spirit is a Guinea Pig Rescue and Adoption home. We take in abandoned guinea pigs and place them, healthy and happy, in high quality, permanent homes. We focus on education and public awareness of the proper respect and care that these and all animals deserve. We are committed to breaking the chain of neglect, abuse, and abandonment.

These are some of our Favorite Photos. Please feel free to comment and make nominate candidates for the Favorite Photos Gallery!
March 6, 2002
41 Items
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46372 Visits
Hollister ADOPTED!
13.Hollister ADOPTED!
All of the Hollister Rescue pigs found new homes!

July 15, 2002
245 Items
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32349 Visits
Hollister Adoptables
14.Hollister Adoptables
Adoptable Guinea Pigs from the Hollister Guinea Pig Rescue! All of the Hollister guinea pigs are now either at the Cavy Spirit or the few listed here are in foster. The Cavy Spirit adoptable guinea pigs can be seen on this album. When Cavy Spirit has room, they will be moved from foster to Cavy Spirit. If you are interested in one of these guinea pigs, you can adopt them directly from the foster home, assuming you go through the Cavy Spirit adoption process. If you are interested in adopting, you should review our adoption criteria and complete an online adoption application found on the Adopting page. Please see Contact Us more information. We only do local (SF Bay Area adoptions). Additional photos of those that have already been adopted can be found on the Adopted album.

July 14, 2002
1 Items
Shared Album
5323 Visits
Dana's Cage
November 11, 2003
22 Items
Shared Album
6111 Visits
Cavy Spirit - Virtual Tour
16.Cavy Spirit - Virtual Tour
This is a very spur of the moment bunch of photos the day after we had to make room for an additional 17 guinea pigs! These shots are all before the hay racks get refilled with the new hay sitting in the driveway!
May 22, 2002
26 Items
Shared Album
19085 Visits
Dirty Cages
17.Dirty Cages
How to NOT to take care of your guinea pigs
October 18, 2003
9 Items
Shared Album
17382 Visits
Critters
18.Critters
Critters Magazine Article

See: CRITTERS To Subscribe or Purchase the Magazine.
August 15, 2003
10 Items
Shared Album
11353 Visits
Hollister Rescue
19.Hollister Rescue
Hollister Guinea Pig Rescue (July 2, 2002) 187 guinea pigs were seized from a woman in Hollister on 7/2/02 by Animal Control Officers. She had been breeding them for 11 years. She "traded the babies to pet stores for food" -- presumably for money for food for herself (there were no other animals). They were housed outdoors, next to a trailer. The animal control officers found empty water bottles and empty food dishes and at least one dead guinea pig outside of the cages. As you can see, the technique used for cleaning cages was to throw new shavings on top of old shavings -- for a long time. In one cage, the pile of feces was so high, the hair on the backs of the pigs was poking through the rusted cage wire on the top of the cage as they walked along. The compacted feces and bedding was filled with maggots and worms and other gross stuff. HAC (Hollister Animal Control) also expects to find the carcasses of dead guinea pigs as they sift through the mountains of ancient bedding. The stink was overpowering. It took three HAC trucks to transport all the cages from the residence to the shelter. At the time of the seizure, she wanted her pigs back. And she wanted the officers to leave the cages and only transport them in small carriers. The pigs were supposedly fed rabbit pellets and vitamin C in the water. She has now officially surrendered the guinea pigs and we must find new homes immediately. As pregnant sows deliver, we expect the numbers to climb to 300+ guinea pigs very soon. Please visit the new HOLLISTER page for the latest information on the rescue and the status of the guinea pigs as well as how you can help.

July 2, 2002
57 Items
Shared Album
13779 Visits
Cavy Cages - Grid Stands
20.Cavy Cages - Grid Stands
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways. If you have any questions, please post them on the Cavy Cages Forum. Feel free to post comments in the guest book and on individual photos, but please post questions on the forum.
This album highlights cages on a stand made from grids.
March 8, 2002
12 Items
Shared Album
10425 Visits
Adoption Events
21.Adoption Events
Cavy Spirit Adoption Events
1 Item
Shared Folder
Cavy Cages - Free Range - Misc
22.Cavy Cages - Free Range - Misc
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album shows photos of a variety of free range homes.
March 10, 2002
3 Items
Shared Album
8166 Visits
Monterey Rescue
23.Monterey Rescue
The Latest Guinea Pigs from Monterey In August LAST YEAR, 350 guinea pigs were rescued from a breeder who had been evicted from their home. They called the SPCA of Monterey to take their guinea pigs. These people had been breeding guinea pigs for biomedical research for 30 years. Most have been placed, but these poor guys have been living at the Monterey Shelter for a YEAR now!! They need a loving home! Please adopt one of these piggies and show them the love and attention that they've never had. Many of the Monterey pigs that have been adopted have made very sweet, lovable pets. You can still view the photo album of all the guinea pigs the day after the surrender, on Sept 1, 2001. We were there and got a lot of piggie photos! Go to the MHS album. Most of the white guinea pigs are FEMALES. Also, despite the lighting of the photo, they all have black eyes. BUT, when we went down to Monterey to get what we thought were the remaining 36 guinea pigs, they had just received in a new group of guinea pigs in very bad condition. The photos in the vehicle are from the trip back up from Monterey (a three hour trek). Photos of M1 through M20 were taken at MHS a while ago when we were planning on doing another trip with them. We will be checking those photos against who we brought back as as well as who is now at PHS for adoption. So, some of those photos may change. Currently ALL of these guinea pigs are at one person's home. She and her family are fostering them for us.

September 9, 2002
93 Items
Shared Album
5630 Visits
Bay Area Shelter Guinea Pigs
24.Bay Area Shelter Guinea Pigs
Guinea Pigs at San Francisco Bay Area Shelters We are starting with the abundance of guinea pigs at the Peninsula Humane Society. We gave 8 from the Monterey Humane Society to PHS when PHS had none. A few others have been surrendered since. But, the big problem now (Sept 6th) is a recent seizure from a woman (not right mentally) of 36 guinea pigs that all have very bad mites that were found running loose in her house. No food or water. These pigs will be held as evidence for 14 days. Then it depends on whether or not she surrenders them as to whether or not they have to continue to hold them as evidence.

September 6, 2002
32 Items
Shared Album
7569 Visits
Cavy Cages - Deck Details
25.Cavy Cages - Deck Details
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album shows details of upper decks.
March 17, 2002
15 Items
Shared Album
15703 Visits
Piggebago Road Trip!
26.Piggebago Road Trip!
The Guinea Pigs-A-Go-Go Rescue Railroad Trip
Jackie, Becky, Sophie, and Oreo (faithful companion) set off across the country on Monday, August 5th. The album starts the Sunday evening, prior to the trip, with final preparations. They returned safe and sound Friday at 5:30pm on August 16th. An 11-day, 5700-mile trip! One pig was brought back from the mid-west to go to Vancouver, Canada. One pig got mixed up and didn't make his destination and so will be finding a great new home in the Bay Area after touring the States!

August 4, 2002
214 Items
Shared Album
6515 Visits
Hollister Guinea Pigs
27.Hollister Guinea Pigs
Hollister Guinea Pigs

These photos were taken the first day. We still have to edit this album and take a LOT more photos, but wanted to give you a chance to see just a few of the guinea pigs in need of loving homes.
July 4, 2002
183 Items
Shared Album
10535 Visits
Cavy Cages - Closed Cube & Coroplast
28.Cavy Cages - Closed Cube & Coroplast
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album includes examples of closed--or cat-proof--cages made from cubes and Coroplast.
October 10, 2001
26 Items
Shared Album
76125 Visits
Cavy Cages - Hay
29.Cavy Cages - Hay
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways. If you have any questions, please post them on the Cavy Cages Forum. Feel free to post comments in the guest book and on individual photos, but please post questions on the forum.
This album highlights photos of Hay & Hay Storage.
May 23, 2002
5 Items
Shared Album
15459 Visits
Adopted!
30.Adopted!
These are photos of the Cavy Spirit piggies who have gone to new homes. Adopted Guinea Pigs! This is certainly not an inclusive list of all of our adoptions because quite a few get adopted before we get a chance to get photos taken and published on the website. And we didn't start doing this procedure with the photos until fairly recently. But, it's nice to see so many adoptions. Just a note: we don't update the description with dates of adoptions. We just move the original photos and descriptions and comments to this album.

1211 Items
Shared Album
9788 Visits
Cavy Cages - Free Range - Kirsten
31.Cavy Cages - Free Range - Kirsten
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album is of Kirstin's awesome Free Range set up.
March 9, 2002
39 Items
Shared Album
13641 Visits
Cavy Cages - Ramps
32.Cavy Cages - Ramps
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways. If you have any questions, please post them on the Cavy Cages Forum. Feel free to post comments in the guest book and on individual photos, but please post questions on the forum.
This album highlights photos of Ramps to Upper Decks.
March 4, 2002
35 Items
Shared Album
21876 Visits
Cavy Cages - A Base and Stand with Grids
33.Cavy Cages - A Base and Stand with Grids
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways. If you have any questions, please post them on the Cavy Cages Forum. Feel free to post comments in the guest book and on individual photos, but please post questions on the forum.
This album highlights photos of Kara's cage. She made a base using grids and a stand using grids. She has some allergies in their family. They lift the entire cage off of the stand and carry the grids with the coroplast outdoors for cleaning.
The bright little things at the connectors are cable ties or zip ties. They are plastic ties available at hardware and home improvement stores used to bind wire cords together to keep them from being messy. You can buy a big package of them for just a dollar or two. Kara used the zip ties to make the cage very strong by reinforcing all of the connections.
These photos also show how she made a hack rack out of an extra grid. She looped some cable ties together at the top. She cut some extra Coroplast for the back of the hay rack to prevent spillage out the back of the cage.
February 27, 2002
21 Items
Shared Album
14797 Visits
Cavy Cages - Ramps Made Easy
34.Cavy Cages - Ramps Made Easy
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways. If you have any questions, please post them on the Cavy Cages Forum. Feel free to post comments in the guest book and on individual photos, but please post questions on the forum.
This album focuses on ONE RAMP DESIGN that is VERY EASY-to-MAKE, SAFE, EASY-to-CLEAN, provides MAXIMUM FLOOR SPACE, and is NOT TOO STEEP for your guinea pigs. They will use this ramp and you can make it in a snap or a bend.
December 22, 2002
32 Items
Shared Album
7409 Visits
CavyCages/DebbeysCage
35.CavyCages/DebbeysCage
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album is Debbey's "Childs Play" 3-story cage.
February 3, 2003
9 Items
Shared Album
7154 Visits
Cavy Cages - Free Range -  Snaggletooth
36.Cavy Cages - Free Range -  Snaggletooth
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album shows photos of Snaggletooth and his pal's freerange home which is based on a staircase platform.
September 20, 2001
6 Items
Shared Album
8168 Visits
Calypso's Cozy Cavy Cafe
37.Calypso's Cozy Cavy Cafe
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
Calypso's Cozy Cavy Cafe
March 10, 2002
23 Items
Shared Album
12016 Visits
Hollister Story Unfolds
38.Hollister Story Unfolds
Hollister Guinea Pig Rescue

This album is a chronological unfolding as the pigs were moved from Hollister and the Peninsula Humane Society. The names are withheld to protect the innocent?
July 15, 2002
130 Items
Shared Album
10061 Visits
Cavy Cages - Bunk Bed Cage
39.Cavy Cages - Bunk Bed Cage
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
Jade's Bunk Bed Cage which includes some great ideas for recycling inexpensive items into cavy cage accessories. For more info on this cage, see this Cavies Galore thread.
June 29, 2002
39 Items
Shared Album
50768 Visits
Cavy Cages - Free Range - Lynx
40.Cavy Cages - Free Range - Lynx
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album is of Lynx's awesome Free Range set up. You can read more about her environment at her web page.
March 9, 2002
5 Items
Shared Album
5901 Visits
Permanent Residents
41.Permanent Residents
These guinea pigs are pretty much considered permanent residents at Cavy Spirit. Most would be adoptable, but only to a special home to someone with significant guinea pig experience willing to provide proper and on-going vet care. Some of these pigs are senior citizens and have been with us too long to rehome. Some have some on-going medical issues and a couple we are suspicious about with future medical issues. A few are otherwise healthy, but we won't split up a bonded pair or group if one has issues.

Our vet bills are high as we continue to provide excellent care for these animals. Any contributions are greatly appreciated.
November 12, 2003
3 Items
Shared Album
9188 Visits
Sexing
42.Sexing

Photos from birth to adulthood, females are titled in pink and on the left, males in blue. Click on the photo for a larger view. Please do not post questions in the guestbook, they are not answered.

November 1, 2003
27 Items
Shared Album
1386782 Visits
Cavy Cages - Stairway to Heaven
43.Cavy Cages - Stairway to Heaven
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album shows photos of a custom staircase built for 3 lucky piggies. The bottom cage is 3 grids by 6 grids, the top is a custom plexiglass cage about 8 sq feet in size.
September 14, 2001
12 Items
Shared Album
3287 Visits
Cavy Spirit Surrenders
44.Cavy Spirit Surrenders
Guinea pigs surrendered to Cavy Spirit
May 7, 2003
3 Items
Shared Album
5010 Visits
Cavy Cages - Free Range - Dawnda
45.Cavy Cages - Free Range - Dawnda
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album shows photos of Dawnda's evolution from cage to cage and free range.
March 16, 2002
3 Items
Shared Album
24604 Visits
Cam Album
46.Cam Album
Cavy Spirit is a Guinea Pig Rescue and Adoption home. We take in abandoned guinea pigs and place them, healthy and happy, in high quality, permanent homes. We focus on education and public awareness of the proper respect and care that these and all animals deserve. We are committed to breaking the chain of neglect, abuse, and abandonment.

These are saved snaps from our webcam!

Don't forget to CLICK the NEXT 15 or SHOW ALL! Or better yet, click on Start Slide Show and let the computer flip through for you.
June 11, 2002
53 Items
Shared Album
4786 Visits
2003 PHS Awards
47.2003 PHS Awards
Jackie, Becky, Sophie and Jay won the 2003 Irene Brady award from the PHS for their major contributions to the Hollister rescue and the Guinea-Pig-A-Go-Go trip across the country.
February 22, 2003
16 Items
Shared Album
7467 Visits
Cavy Cages - Divided cages
48.Cavy Cages - Divided cages
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album includes examples of cages that have been divided to accommodate two or more different groups of guinea pigs.
March 17, 2002
19 Items
Shared Album
5373 Visits
Cavy Spirit - Misc. Piggie Photos
49.Cavy Spirit - Misc. Piggie Photos
Cavy Spirit is a Guinea Pig Rescue and Adoption home. We take in abandoned guinea pigs and place them, healthy and happy, in high quality, permanent homes. We focus on education and public awareness of the proper respect and care that these and all animals deserve. We are committed to breaking the chain of neglect, abuse, and abandonment.

These are miscellaneous photos of guinea pigs that have been through Cavy Spirit. These guinea pigs are not currently adoptable. For the Adoptables, please visit this album: Adoptables
June 9, 2002
139 Items
Shared Album
13786 Visits
Cavy Spirit - Phoenix
50.Cavy Spirit - Phoenix
Cavy Spirit is a Guinea Pig Rescue and Adoption home. We take in abandoned guinea pigs and place them, healthy and happy, in high quality, permanent homes. We focus on education and public awareness of the proper respect and care that these and all animals deserve. We are committed to breaking the chain of neglect, abuse, and abandonment.

Phoenix is named in the hope of him rising from the ashes of his genetic cesspool and having a decent life. His brother was stillborn with more obvious deformities.
September 21, 2001
9 Items
Shared Album
5577 Visits
Cavy Spirit - Pet Club in San Mateo
51.Cavy Spirit - Pet Club in San Mateo
Photos taken Sunday, 9/2/01.
September 3, 2001
17 Items
Shared Album
2839 Visits
Cavy Cages - Just stuff
52.Cavy Cages - Just stuff
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
Just stuff ALL COPYRIGHTED
March 25, 2002
73 Items
Shared Album
11362 Visits
2003 Petco Protest
53.2003 Petco Protest
Petco protest at Redwood City Petco on February 22, 2003.
February 22, 2003
11 Items
Shared Album
9119 Visits
Cavy Cages - Miscellaneous Photos
54.Cavy Cages - Miscellaneous Photos
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album is of photos submitted to us or with permission to publish that are not a Cubes and Coroplast design, but have no website home to provide a link to. The fact that these cages are here does not imply that we endorse or recommend them. They may meet the published cage standards or they may not. They are here to inspire you with ideas.
March 8, 2002
31 Items
Shared Album
3024 Visits
Cavy Cages - Free Range - Bouba
55.Cavy Cages - Free Range - Bouba
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album shows photos of Bouba and Company's free range home.
March 10, 2002
10 Items
Shared Album
23475 Visits
Cavy Cages - Da-Mars Custom Cage
56.Cavy Cages - Da-Mars Custom Cage
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways. If you have any questions, please post them on the Cavy Cages Forum. Feel free to post comments in the guest book and on individual photos, but please post questions on the forum.
This album is about our custom commercial cage experience. We ordered this cage, 30" x 36" from Da-Mars. A larger version of the one they normally sell. We asked for a top loading door. We thought that would be better than the front, and we asked for 6" side (urine guards) so we wouldn't have the same complaint we have with the other commercial cages with the pans being to shallow. We also chose a cage size that would be comparable to Martin's large 30" x 36" cage so they could be compared.
We did not want to go the trouble to complete the cage set up with bedding and pigs and whatnot. It would have been a complete and total waste of time for us as we have no intention of keeping this cage. As it is, it was a bit of an expense and an effort to prove a point and satisfy our curiousity. Lesson learned? Breeder cages are breeder cages. Plain and simple. Breeder cages are not pet cages and should not be confused as such.

This cage offers no redeeming value as a pet cage over other solutions presented on Cavy Cages.
March 6, 2002
19 Items
Shared Album
4155 Visits
Monterey Humane Society 2001 Rescue
57.Monterey Humane Society 2001 Rescue
Guinea Pig Rescue at the SPCA of Monterey (http://www.spcamc.org) in California of 350+ guinea pigs that were being bred for animal testing at various labs and schools. These photos are prior to adoptions. For the latest information on adoptions, please contact Lisa Giesick, at MHS (877) 477-2262 ext. 236 (lgiesick@spcamc.org). These photos were taken at the SPCA in Monterey a couple of days after the rescue, but before the bulk of the activity on adoptions started. For more on the story. . . see this article on Cavy Spirit.
September 2, 2001
100 Items
Shared Album
9610 Visits
SkinnyPigParty
December 27, 2003
82 Items
Shared Album
13371 Visits
Sexing Photos
59.Sexing Photos

Photos from birth to adulthood, females are titled in pink, males in blue. Click on the photo for a larger view. Please do not post questions in the guestbook, they are not answered.

November 10, 2003
27 Items
Shared Album
10678 Visits
Poor Piggie Graphics
60.Poor Piggie Graphics
Experimenting with some graphics to be included in a collage or used for other purposes. These are NOT photos of current guinea pigs for adoption.
August 20, 2004
11 Items
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Cavy Cages - Open Cube & Coroplast Cages
61.Cavy Cages - Open Cube & Coroplast Cages
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
This album includes examples of open cages made from cubes and Coroplast.
September 21, 2001
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Cavy Cages - Linoleum Base
62.Cavy Cages - Linoleum Base
Cavy Cages is a Guinea Pig Cages website providing information on proper guinea pig cages and sizes. Before you buy a cage, check out this website. The Cubes and Coroplast design is superior in many ways.
Absolutely, positively can't find Coroplast? Linoleum works also. It won't last quite as long and if the cage is long, may put some pressure on the middle grid walls, but it is still workable. You also may want to be very sure that they don't nibble on edges. See the options page for ideas on preventing chewing.
March 9, 2002
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Cavy Spirit - Wilma
63.Cavy Spirit - Wilma
Cavy Spirit is a Guinea Pig Rescue and Adoption home. We take in abandoned guinea pigs and place them, healthy and happy, in high quality, permanent homes. We focus on education and public awareness of the proper respect and care that these and all animals deserve. We are committed to breaking the chain of neglect, abuse, and abandonment.

Wilma is one of the Monterey Mommas from a breeder for labs with who knows what kind of breeding practices, but definitely inbreeding has contributed to her problems. The large baby came first as a breech birth (feet first). She needed help getting that first baby out which was stillborn, underdeveloped, and deformed. Then came the second--Phoenix. Phoenix' story is on the web site.

Please post any breeding comments on the Forum available from the Cavy Rescue site. Thank you.
September 23, 2001
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Bumblefoot
64.Bumblefoot
Cavy Spirit is a Guinea Pig Rescue and Adoption home. We take in abandoned guinea pigs and place them, healthy and happy, in high quality, permanent homes. We focus on education and public awareness of the proper respect and care that these and all animals deserve. We are committed to breaking the chain of neglect, abuse, and abandonment. We had so many guinea pigs from the Hollister rescue with BUMBLEFOOT, we have created a separate album to display the photos. And this isn't all of them. For more information on Bumblefoot and how to treat it, please see this Guinea Lynx page.

July 16, 2002
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At other rescues
65.At other rescues
These guinea pigs are in other rescues at other Bay Area locations.
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Trouble
66.Trouble
Nose problem
December 2, 2005
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Babies January 2007
January 29, 2007
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Washington State Adoptables
68.Washington State Adoptables
These are some Cavy Spirit piggies who have made a big move to Washington State!

These piggies have gone home with Linda for fostering, and will be placed into new, permanent homes. We hope they find their new homes very soon!

These cavies are available in Olympia, Tacoma/Puyallup area and Auburn. If you are interested in adopting one of these great piggies, please contact Linda at kleenmama@aol.com.
January 20, 2003
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