If your guinea pigs have only a small mat of hair then you can untangle the same by running your fingers softly or clipping the tips and running a soft bristle brush in your guinea pig s fur.
How to get mats out of guinea pig hair.
However severely matted hair in guinea pigs might need to be taken cared for by a professional groomer or vet.
Any other shampoos can irritate and dry out the skin making the matted fur worse.
It s about as bad as it can get.
If matt is really close to skin what i would do it cut part of the matt off keeping your fingers between her and the scissors then you may be able to tease it gently out with your fingers or a tiny piggy comb or something like that.
Trimming the hair of long haired guinea pig is exceptionally efficient as it helps them cool down a little bit.
Guinea pigs do shed a bit more as summer arrives to lose out excess hair from their coat.
Please let me know and i just cut her hair so i just noticed it now.
The ball of matted hair on her back bottom is probably at least an inch thick.
December 16 th 2008 and she is a peruvian texel mixed pig.
How to cute a long haired guinea pig s hair.
When the mat has been separated it is much easier to locate the skin so that you can trim as close to it as.
Put it this way if i didn t know how much my mum loved her i would be disgusted.
Do this several times for each mat.
The trick with de matting a guinea pig is to have a good sharp scissors with blunt tips.
Damp fur is sometimes easier to brush out rather than dry fur.
Bathe your guinea pig.
I have long haired guniea pigs and i cut any hair that trails and comb them daily to prevent this happening and also stop their coat getting dirty and the ends.
All you need is a towel cloth hair cutting devices and a brush.
Some pigs seem to get matted no matter how short you keep it bedding seems to get tangled in there and make it all the worse.
So as a result if the hair around their bottom gets long and isn t trimmed or brushed every day it will most likely get matted and wet which isn t good for the skin underneath.
Guinea pigs aren t actually meant to have long hair it s just a trait we ve bred for the look of it regardless of the practicalities for them.
Make sure to have a guinea pig certified shampoo on hand.
He even had bald spots where i think the matts were so bad that the hair just fell out.
My friend gave me a guinea pig about a year ago and i would like to know how to get matted hair off her.
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When you go to dry your guinea pig use a patting and stroking technique so that it doesn t tangle the fur even more.
Cut into the mat as though you were cutting parallel to the hair.
I ve found it easier to keep these pigs.
I haven t worked out how to put photo s on here yet i will get husband to try tomorrow.
She has it really close to her butt and her hips are really badly injured.
Cutting long haired guinea pigs rump hair funnychick313.
Regular brushing your guinea pig breed is also essential as it helps in removing knots in the hair.
Also she is a 2 year old dob.
