Mocha loooves her bed…it’s actually a ferret bed. When I have both the bed and her plastic igloo (that I switched for a homemade roofless hut made from leftover coroplast) in her cage at the same time, she hopped right in the bed and was already making herself at home (bathing herself, etc) within the five seconds I had my bed turned…so…yeah…
Unfortunately the bed is starting to wear out. The inner fleece is wearing thin from multiple washings and a certain Mocha biting off the fleece. And the outer fabric I think is starting to shrink. There was probably something on the tag about not washing it in hot water…but there was no other way to get rid of that permanent pee smell. Uhh…well, I guess it’s ok to consider it dead.
So instead of letting her going bedless, I ordered a new, fancier one for her (they are called cozies or cuddle cups in the guinea pig world as I found out while on my guinea enlightenment journey) from Sewing4acause.com (where I also bought the 2×2 C&C cage blanket from). The heart fleece actually has nothing to do with the upcoming Valentine’s Day. I just noticed that there was a limited choice on the sherpa colors (sherpa = the fleece on the inside of the bed) and wanted the two fleeces to go with each other.
The new bed is fancier since it also comes with a cushion as you can see above.
I thought my guinea pig had high end tastes here and would appreciate having a cushion to rest her head on…like a pillow! That wasn’t the case. She laid down with her bottom end against the cushion and when she was bored, turned around to chew on the sherpa on the cushion. O.O;;
So now it’s outside of the hut as decoration.

New bed with a Mocha inside
(Even though polyester fleece does not harm them when they eat it, the thought of Mocha eating her bootyful cushion does not please me. Hopefully her new bed won’t suffer the fate of the old one. RIP old bed.
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(The corohut is roofless and has a bigger opening to let the air ventilate a little better. Fleece blankets from Target (two baby blankets and one dog blanket) are in place to trap the warm air in.)

*peeeer*
I guess the bed was new and scary for her. She would only crawl in it when I put it in the corohut. Later on, I shall have to take a better picture of her laying in it out in the open.
Oh yes, guess what? More Windespirit/Sewing4cause swag incoming, probably later next month: 2 cage blankets for the dining room, kinda like the 2×2 blanket I got earlier, only with cotton batting in the middle to absorb more pee. I can switch them out daily and hand wash them in between. Lessens the amount of guinea pig laundry to maybe once a week hopefully (which was weirding my dad out earlier, over how much I use the washing machine).