Cavies

While the guinea pigs, also known as cavies, served as ❋ Unknown (2012)

We arranged for 33 donkeys and miniature donkeys to receive veterinary care, and we found new homes for camels, emus, bison and several large South American rodents called cavies. ❋ Wayne Pacelle (2011)

If Liam (comment #3) has cavies in his teeth, he has problems that no dentist can help him with. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Does the report check against incidence of gingivitis only, or cavies as well? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Do it for your dog, for your cavies, for your hammies. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This breeder has lively brown ones, as well as robust-looking cavies and Roborovski hamsters. ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2005)

Then when I noticed what little cavies Gonzales, Jackson, that fellow who just brown-nosed his way into Harvard, and the like are, I thought maybe there was something to it as an indicator. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In the daytime they either lie among the aquatic plants, or openly feed on the turf plain. 25 When viewed at a distance, from their manner of walking and colour they resemble pigs: but when seated on their haunches, and attentively watching any object with one eye, they reassume the appearance of their congeners, cavies and rabbits. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They adopted wild cavies, and found that these rangeland rodents (which are more closely related to porcupines than to rats or mice) were gentle, manageable, and easy to rear. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Three species of wild cavies (Cavia aperea, C. fulgida, and C. tschudii), close relatives of the guinea pig, are native to South America and are declining drastically. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Rabbits and cavies will eat almost anything and eat constantly. ❋ Claude H. Miller (N/A)

An interesting example of skill in breeding is seen in Dutch belted varieties of cattle, in hogs, rabbits, cavies and mice. ❋ Claude H. Miller (N/A)

At the show of the Chicago Cat Club, small dogs and cavies are exhibited also, the Cavy Club and the Pet Dog Club having affiliated with the Chicago Cat Club. ❋ Helen M. Winslow (N/A)

After that Warruk was content to leave the larger creatures to his mother; but the smaller ones such as the cavies and opossums he dealt with mercilessly and swiftly; in fact, Suma urged him to such a course and often watched from some nearby point of vantage while he conducted the stalk and launched the attack. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

A perfect network of trails and runways covered the grasslands, made by the cavies and other of the smaller animals that kept to the dense cover and used also by the predatory animals that preyed on them. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Guinea pigs or cavies are similar to rabbits in their requirements. ❋ Claude H. Miller (N/A)

The three classes of cavies are Peruvians or Angoras, with long silky hair; Abyssinians, with coarse hair in tufts or rosettes, and the common guinea pig or smooth, cavy. ❋ Claude H. Miller (N/A)

Neither cavies nor rabbits are especially intelligent but they do learn to know their master or at least the one who feeds them. ❋ Claude H. Miller (N/A)