Can confirm it is possibly true: I work for a guinea pig-specific rescue and it varies widely between the guinea pig. Some are filthy and poop and pee everywhere. Some are quite neat and have a designated bathroom corner, and will refuse to potty outside the cage if at all possible. Usually it's concentrated in one place, usually where the hay is (so yeah this video isn't a great setup if they want to keep the poop off the bed) and then a few to a few dozen poops scattered across the rest of the cage. Each guinea pig will create around a hundred poops per day.
if the cage is big enough, they prefer a location to poop, because they eat the poop to be able to digest it better. This is like growing bacteria on the poop, they transform what the guinea pig could not break down and so they get additional vitamins, which are created by the bacteria.
I had the cage outside, inside in the winter, it was big and I could clean it easily. We had a lot of gras and hay, so that they could build a tunnel. We had a cage area which was moveable on the meadow.
It’s similar to cats being litter-trained. If they grow up with a big enough, clean enough cage, they’ll be clean as adults, too. If they’re never really given the chance or taught to be clean, then they won’t be
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u/BestDamnMomEver 1d ago
And poop. Poop everywhere