• Question: do you ever experiment on your guinea pigs?(i hope not) thnx

    Asked by tibbles to Adam, Joanna, Louise S, Louise W, Marcus on 13 Nov 2012. This question was also asked by rumpelstiltskin.
    • Photo: Louise Stanley

      Louise Stanley answered on 13 Nov 2012:

      No absolutely not! They are my pets and I love them very much! They are very greedy and make lots of noise. Their names are Spike and Smudge. Spike is very fat and eats most of the food and Smudge is very fast and agile! Do you have any pets?

    • Photo: Joanna Giles

      Joanna Giles answered on 13 Nov 2012:

      I don’t have guinea pigs, I have a dog and I don’t experiment on him…except to teach him tricks and see if he likes them! If that counts!

    • Photo: Adam Paige

      Adam Paige answered on 13 Nov 2012:

      No, never done, or even read, about experiments in guinea pigs.

    • Photo: Marcus Wilson

      Marcus Wilson answered on 14 Nov 2012:

      Guinea pigs used to be used because they were seen as being cleaner than other rodents ( back in the 1800s). Then they were the first animals in space!

      They tend not to be used anymore because scientists now mainly use mice.

    • Photo: Louise Walkin

      Louise Walkin answered on 18 Nov 2012:

      I don’t have guinea pigs, but I do have pet cats! I haven’t actually read any research done on guinea pigs, like Marcus says, I think they are used less and less now, if at all and mice are normally used instead.

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