Guinea Pig Awareness Week 2024 is launching at a new acclaimed rescue centre dedicated to the UK’s most popular furry pets.
Guinea Pig Awareness Week 2024 is launching at a new acclaimed rescue centre dedicated to the UK’s most popular furry pets.
Hog Springs is a Wild West themed habitat, providing re-homed guineas with a delightful space for daily adventures in a rural North East setting.
And with the summer holidays over, nights drawing in and attention turning back to indoor activities, there’s a concerted effort to ensure the loveable small animals remain well looked after and part of daily family life as a focus of the established week.
Guinea Pig Awareness Week, running from Monday, September 23, serves to reinforce the five welfare needs of guinea pigs, under the mantra of ‘nibble, nourish, thrive’.
Now in its fourth year and orchestrated by Burgess Pet Care, keeping guinea pigs healthy and happy is at the heart of the initiative.
Guinea Pig Awareness Week is supported by some of the UK’s leading animal welfare charities – Blue Cross, Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare, the RSPCA and Woodgreen Pets Charity. It is also endorsed by the British Small Animal Veterinary Association.
Yorkshire-based Burgess Pet Care is also behind the Guinea Pig Forum, taking place in Birmingham the week prior, and the annual Small Animal Survey. The business is making a significant food donation for the guineas, while staff fundraising activity has met the cost of ground covering for the enclosure.
Hog Springs opened last year at Northumberland Zoo, itself established to create a North East hub for wildlife conservation. It was the result of an in-house competition between staff, working with local charity Gertie’s Lonely Guinea Pig Rescue to provide the facilities.
