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10 reasons why guinea pigs make great pets

4 The Love Of Animals

10 reasons why guinea pigs make great pets – by James Alston writing for ExoticDirect ExoticDirect offer pet insurance for guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets, hamsters, mice and other small pets. They also insure parrots, reptiles, tortoise and even pygmy hedgehogs!

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

Rabbit : not as common in England as they used to be Over the years I’ve encountered a rich variety of smaller mammals, too, ranging from Alpine Marmots to European Sousliks, Moles to Hedgehogs, plus an assortment of mice and voles. The latter are challenging, as for certain identification you really need to trap them.

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You’re Not Helping

10,000 Birds

Even wiping out one species, like possums, or stoats, or hedgehogs is probably beyond current methods. It’s undermined his own laudable efforts to clear the Antipodes of mice. We are certainly many years away from being able to undertake a feat of that magnitude on one of the two main islands.