is it okay for rats and guinea pigs to live in the same house (separate rooms)

[windfire]

i am taking two  of them in with my rat filled house. the guineas need a home asap or they will be destroyed so i am taking them.  they will be in a separate room and the rats in a different one but i hate for them to be destroyed just when they were recently bought.

do they have to be quarentined or anything?  thanks

[Dearpie]

They'll be fine in your house.  Good for you for taking them in.

[Bathos]

for those of you in the future who read this title (like I did) and think this post is asking about keeping them in the same cage...

Guinea pigs and rats generally can't share a cage.  The guinea pig will usually freak out about being sniffed at and climbed over and will find the rat's tail pretty scary and eventually give it a bite.  (I did have one male guinea pig who was very much in love with a female rat, but I don't think housing them together would've been a good idea and that is by far the exception and not the rule)

-Liz (who used to have 10 guinea pigs and 2 rats)

[Yanglicious]

Bathos I don't think she means housing them together.

[Jherek]

Bathos I don't think she means housing them together.

She originally read it that way and was clearing that up in case anyone else misread it the same way and ended up thinking it was ok to keep rats and guinea pigs in the same cage.

[windfire]

i did nt know how to word it any different.  i could of said seprate rooms but thats still in the same house as an establishment.

anyway i posted on pocket pets for advice on them as i am new to them and today they will be here.   will take pics of the new pigs.

need to get some new rattie pics too.right now everyone is in the hammacks nestled down as it got cold last night. heats set at 65 and was all all the time.

well at least its not hot yet so thats a blessing.

[ScoutGotBig]

They can be in the same house, and mine have even lived in the same room - but not the same cages.  What I found is that I had to rat proof the pig cages to keep the rats out, since the piggers didn't like the rats in their home - and the rats had NO respect for a C&C cage

I've currently got a foster pig (she's a foster, she really is!) in a big SP cage since I have nothing else to keep her in - it's the newer blue one with a single shelf.  She's a 3 month old, and I know it's too small for her, but I don't have the old pig table anymore to build her a C&C cage, and it was the SP cage or a 15 gallon tank that she came in.

[celticrebelgirl]

When I lived in NC and was helping with the rodent rescue there..I had up to 14 guinea pigs and my 6 rats back then in the same room, and the rabbits, and the dog crate, and litter boxes, and.....egads...lol.  I had a HUGE Bedroom.   

Now in my apartment...sadly right now all I have room for is petstore cages for the piggies and I hate it..but I have no room to make a C&C cages work with the way its setup in there..wall wise..   


Nestle has sniffed Tarheel's face at the cage bars but Nestle scurried back to me cuz Tarheel scared her lol.

But yeah..I wouldnt intentionally house them together ever....like rabbits and guinea pigs....its too dangerous. Prolly more dangerous with rabbits and piggies then rats and piggies but my fat pigs could accidently crush my rats eek.

[littlemamas]

Yeah there's definitely no harm in the same house. Same room wouldn't hurt either, as all the other members have said.

At one point I had my rats, my mouse, my friend's guinea pig, and my boyfriend's Emporer Scorpion all living in the same room.

I had a notion to paint "Jocelyn's Zoo" on my bedroom door. Hahaha.