Cavia Foundation, Bakkeveen Live Cam

Guinea pigs move between hay piles and wooden shelters along the whole length of the shed at Stichting Cavia in Bakkeveen. Water bottles hang on the wall, and the animals gather wherever fresh hay has been dropped.

The shelter has taken in guinea pigs since 1997. Animals arrive when owners can no longer keep them, stay while they are treated and paired, and leave with new keepers; some are boarded for a few weeks and go home again.

Bakkeveen, also written Bakkefean, is a village in the Friesland province of the northern Netherlands, on the sandy heath and forest belt that runs along the provincial border. The webcam runs day and night, and the animals are awake for much of both.