Are you looking to adopt a guinea pig, or do you already have a piggy who won’t stop biting? While it’s rare for guinea pigs to bite and rarer for those bites to break skin, biting can be painful or ...

After debuting at no. 1 on the box-office charts last weekend, the animated comedy G-Force has animal groups concerned about a possible movie-inspired spike in guinea pig purchases among negligent ...

We own two guinea pigs and recently one of them started scratching a lot. The animal started to lose a lot of hair around the neck and head, and it started to scab up. We have owned them both for some ...

Q. We’ve had a guinea pig for six months, and we noticed she was drooling and rubbing at her mouth. We took her to a vet who knows about guinea pigs and were told her front teeth were overgrown. The ...

Dear Amy: My close friend from childhood recently bought two guinea pigs for her children. The kids enjoy them but seem a little afraid of them. Now the parents have decided that the guinea pigs smell ...

On Friday, Disney releases "G-Force," its 3-D movie about a government program training guinea pigs to work in espionage. Commonly thought of as furry and cute but mundane pets for 5-year-olds, guinea ...

Guinea pigs don’t wag tails or lick faces the way dogs might, but they still show affection in surprisingly personal ways.