If you’re thinking about getting a pet for your child, guinea pigs often come up as a top choice - and for good reason. These little fluffballs are gentle, social, and surprisingly fun to be around.

I’m not against a houseful of pets, since that’s the way I was raised, with dogs, cats, fish, a couple birds and two turtles thrown in for good measure. But our daughter’s frog died suddenly last week ...

PDSA expert answers your questions... Dear PDSA, I’d like to know more about guinea pigs, am I right in thinking they need extra vitamin C? Funda Hi Funda, you are right - unusually for mammals, ...

And, more recently, shrimp. When he was about 7 or 8 years old, Rothschild had a different kind of pig — guinea pigs — as pets. His curiosity about their coat colors led to an interest in genetics, ...

The star of the show, Olga da Polga is a beautiful guinea pig. Guinea pigs are very social pets needing lots of attention, even though in these first stories of Olga da Polga she is the only ...