Do guinea pigs loose their teeth?
Guinea Pigs normally do not bite. In nearly 40 years of judging Guinea pigs I’ve been bitten only once (and that was through stupidity on my part!) . You can expect trouble if you try to separate fighting animals but GPs are normally not aggressive to humans. You may need to socialize your GP some since they are social animals by nature. If you take it out regularly and sit it on a towel in your lap and feed it treats (go easy on the amounts) like clean grass, or leafy greens, it will gradually become glad to see you and be handled. Guinea pigs WILL normally chew on all sorts of stuff to keep their teeth worm down. Their teeth are open rooted which means that, unlike our teeth, they grow throughout its lifetime and they must receive some wear to keep them from over growing, In general, the pellets and hay they eat does a pretty good job of this wearing down. Even so, pigs will rattle on their cage wire, chew on any hard play toys you put in their cage or any wooden structures to which
