Community Profile

• All entries must be related to guinea pigs. No community promos are accepted.
• No picture larger than 500 x 400 should be posted without an LJ cut. If posting multiple pictures, please use an lj-cut. When posting multiple pictures you may have one picture outwith the cut as a "teaser". (For information on how to do an LJ cut, please click here)
• You do not have to own a guinea pig to join this community.
• Manners are important in this community. No comments will be allowed that use racist, homophobic, sexist, or religious epithets. No comments will be tolerated that include personal attacks.
  A personal attack is when you:
  
  • comment on a person’s appearance, religion, mental state, or piggies in a derogatory manner
    
  • Use foul language not in context at the person 
    
  • “Blow off” the other persons intelligence/comment/piggies

If a you spot a comment where another user is subject to a personal attack, please notify the moderation team who will take immediate action.

• All members are to feel 100% safe posting anything. If you need help or are unable to find information, please feel free to post. Please be advised that the moderator team are currently undertaking the task of tagging past entries to make information retrieval based on community entries more user friendly.
• No spamming, trolling or fighting is allowed.

Please note: The most frequent hotly debated topics are: breeding, cages, vet care, and feeding treats (e.g. yoghurt drops). When you post about these topics, particularly when you comment to a post please be sensitive in your responses and remember that we are trying to educate, not offend the person. We understand that most owners here want 100% of the best for their pet but due to being given inaccurate information they may be doing something harmful. Remember - there is not a lot of good guinea pig information out there! Be kind!

• Deleting comments and posts, or disabling comments is prohibited. Doing either will result in a warning, and then banning from the community. If something was posted to the community by mistake, please email the moderators to let them know you are removing it.
• This community attracts many different people; from young teens to adults. As such please keep all posted (or used) content including: user pictures, language, off-topic themes posted to the community at a PG-13 level.
  
   

Remember the only way you can help the guinea pigs is to educate people. Educate, don't lecture.

Resources

As fellow guinea pig owners, we understand that new guinea pig owners will often encounter inaccurate information on the internet and in the bookstore. To help, we have collaborated a list of reputable, well-used web pages from which many of the members here learned their stuff from.

If you would rather search a source closer to livejournal, and this community, please check out the tagged entries where members before you have perhaps already experienced the same problem:
http://community.livejournal.com/guinea_pigs/tag/
or consult our memories section
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=guinea_pigs

Health

GuineaLynx

Care, Housing, and Nutrition

Cavy Spirit

Guinea Pig Cages

GuineaLynx

Adoption and Rescue Resources

Guinea Pig Home

Squeaks and Wheeks Rescue List

Petfinder

GuineaLynx Rescue List

Other LJ Guinea Pig Communities

cavyrescuers ● guineapighealth ● note_to_fuzzy ●
● pigtures ● rateyourpiggy ●

Your moderators are: kikayume, thalestral and xteadragonx

In the event of a fire, the moderation team can be contacted simultaneously on the following e-mail: gpmodsquad@googlemail.com