The luxury small pet boarding

24/04/2022

Lots of beautiful piggies 🐾

14/04/2022

Biscuit is settling in 🐾

20/03/2022

03/03/2022

23/02/2022

Gorgeous boy enjoying his hay 🐾

23/02/2022

Appa and Misty enjoying there tea and a clean pen 🐾

23/02/2022

Jack and Finn enjoying some tea 🐾

21/02/2022

Bath and tidy up for this gorgeous boy 🐾❤️

16/01/2022

Ronnie and Reggie, boar brothers aged 4 months, looking for their forever home ❤🐹🐹❤
Indoor home as per adoption winter policy requirements
140cm indoor minimum or C&C set up 5ft x 2ft
Hutch 5ft x 2ft
Email us at [email protected] if you are interested

13/01/2022

Newest permanent residents to the rescue, senior 5 year old boar pair Dandy & Momo. Aren't they just lovely puddles of cuddliness?

30/11/2021

No new bookings will be taken for pet sitting before Christmas now 🧑‍🎄 ⛄️

29/11/2021

Fresh delivery of all the £1.50 and £3.00 forage boxes for Guineapig’s and rabbits 🐰

13/11/2021

We’re here! 10 til 4 today!! 🐾

11/11/2021

10/11/2021

09/11/2021

Jack and Finn 🐾 these gorgeous boy came for their holiday and had their photos taken ❤️

01/11/2021

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22/10/2021

Dottie and Flo have recently been adopted by myself and they are settling in lovely ❤️

21/10/2021

Indiana and June exploring whilst on their holidays 🐾💜

19/10/2021

Lots of cards for sale! All profits go to charity the last photo there packs of 10 priced at £2 the individual cards are £1.50 each or £1 each if you buy more than 1 🐾

18/10/2021

We will be at the Christmas fair! With all our personalised items including treat tubs and Christmas baubles! 🐾❤️

07/10/2021

We’re going to have personalised treat tubs available soon! They can be personalised to say anything you like! 🐾 just £5.99 ❤️

05/10/2021

We now stock some beautiful boxes of forage mix available in 3 different sizes! Profits go to the potteries pig rescue! 🐾 please ask for pricing I will be making a price list soon! 🐾❤️

04/10/2021

🌟🌟OPEN AND TAKING BOOKINGS 🌟🌟

The Luxury small pet boarding is now taking bookings!

The luxury small pet boarding offers Luxury home from home boarding for Guinea Pigs! 🏡 We are based in Stoke on Trent ST3 in the UK 🇬🇧 and have a 5 star rating 🌟

Price list 💰

- 1 Pig is £5 per day.
- 2 Bonded Pigs are £7 per day.
- 3 Bonded Pigs or more are £9 per day.

We do cater for other small animals such as hamsters, rats and mice please message for further pricing 🐾

All of our prices are fully inclusive of a good quality mix of Timothy and Meadow hay which is unlimited to all of our guests, Fresh Veg/Herbs and occasional fruit as well as all your pets bedding (fleece or shavings). All you need to bring is your pets normal dry food.
Toys are changed daily to stimulate enrichment, we use lots of different beds, tunnels, hides and houses 🐹

For any enquires, to have a look around or to make a booking, message our page

We look forward to welcoming your furry best friends on a holiday of their own.
😊🐰🐹

28/09/2021

Gorgeous max is 2 and is looking for a friend of the same s*x please direct any enquires to The Potteries Guinea Pig Rescue 🐾

27/09/2021

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27/09/2021

Getting round to sorting out the Halloween themed photos from my boarders! If anybody would like these done I’m still taking bookings! Moving on to Christmas in November 🐾

27/09/2021

I’m getting back to everyone today for their holiday boarding enquiries!

26/09/2021

Indiana and June enjoying some time outside 🐾

24/09/2021

Little bit of outdoor time for the boys 🐾❤️

24/09/2021

Waiting for breakfast this morning🐾❤️

24/09/2021

Now taking bookings for Christmas boarding 🐾

24/09/2021

Can’t believe she’s not here anymore! She’s the reason I become a small pet sitter! I miss you everyday 🐾

23/09/2021

Did you know!?! Guinea pigs are coprophagic (meaning: they eat their own poo💩). This is to assist with getting the nutrients they need.

Rabbits🐇 produce and eat caecotrophs 💩(soft pellets produced after the first passage through the digestive tract). Caecotrophs provide a good source of B vitamins for rabbits. Because guinea pigs don't produce caecotrophs, they need B vitamins in their diet. These vitamins come from pellets and veg.

Added 💩 Info - Whilst rabbits and guinea pigs have similar gut transits there are some differences. In rabbits, large fibre particles are separated from small fibre particles in the first part of the colon. The large particles pass on through the colon and are excreted as hard faecal pellets, the small particles are returned to the caecum to undergo fermentation, forming a paste. This paste then passes rapidly along the colon forming the cecotroph.

The passage of ingesta through the gastro-intestinal tract of guinea pigs is somewhat different. Guinea pigs return bacteria to the caecum from the colon using a mucus trap method, but this contains very few or no food particles. The faecal pellets guinea pigs eat during coprophagy have not come directly from the caecum, as in rabbits. Therefore, are not termed cecotrophs.

The Quesenberry, Orcutt, Mans and Carpenter book 'Ferrets, rabbits and rodents, clinical medicine and surgery 4th edition' states "unlike rabbits, guinea pigs are not caecotrophic." This is supported by university of Illinois notes on caecotrophy in rabbits which states "rabbits are unique in that they practice caecotrophy."

Whilst both animals eat faecal material that has passed once through the gastrointestinal tract, in order to get more value from their diet, the passage is slightly different and hence the faecal material guinea pigs eat are not by definition called caecotrophs.

😁More will be explained about the differences between rabbits and guinea pigs in our blog next week.👀

21/09/2021

Some familiar faces have joined us today on their holidays 🐾

20/09/2021

Spot the guineapig 😂

19/09/2021

The girls waiting for their breakfast this morning 🐾

18/09/2021

Nibbles is enjoying his hay 🐾

11/09/2021

Meadow is gaining weight! Now 609grams! I couldn’t be more proud of her 🐾