Niki
Senior Guinea Pig
I got 2 new sister girls today, from a girl my friend works with, she got them as babies & has had them for approx 2 months. She wanted a dog but lives in a flat so got 2 g.p's & quite obviously didn't want them so i said i'd have them.
They were quite literally thrown at me on the doorstep. >
I am fuming mad. Alex (the girl who brought them) asked her b/f "have you brought the antibiotics?" He hadn't! When i asked who was on antibiotics & why............
She pointed in the box, laughing "she bit her, she went scabby, then she bit her & now she's scabby!"
When I asked who was who, she pointed at them "marge & maggie then said oh no it's the other way round"
I don't think to be honest she could give a stuff!
I asked what veg do they eat, i was told cabbage, carrot & then oh they eat all veg - yeah right!
After bringing the piggies, cage, shavings, food into the house I had a look at them, one piggy, the smallest one has no hair right across her nose but no open wound now.
The bigger piggy has a bite wound behind one ear (it has scabbed). I'm assuming this is the one on antibiotics.
They're now separated & in my kitchen. I daren't put them in the same room as my piggies just incase they're not bite marks.
Tho' they can't stay there :-\
I've bathed the wound with salt water & can see that an old wound mark near her eye, the hair is just growing back. I sent a text asking which one was the "top pig" she thought it was the smaller of the two as this one had been mounting the other & always bagged the house.
The only other thing i've noticed is like white stuff on their ears, near the ends - a bit like salt petre on your shoes, does anyone know what this is?
Eventhough they've inflicted wounds on each other does this mean they may be fine with other piggies? If they won't individually join any of my piggies i will have to rehome them
Here i go again - "psycho pigs" abound in this house ;D
All advice welcomed
They were quite literally thrown at me on the doorstep. >
I am fuming mad. Alex (the girl who brought them) asked her b/f "have you brought the antibiotics?" He hadn't! When i asked who was on antibiotics & why............
She pointed in the box, laughing "she bit her, she went scabby, then she bit her & now she's scabby!"
When I asked who was who, she pointed at them "marge & maggie then said oh no it's the other way round"
I don't think to be honest she could give a stuff!
I asked what veg do they eat, i was told cabbage, carrot & then oh they eat all veg - yeah right!
After bringing the piggies, cage, shavings, food into the house I had a look at them, one piggy, the smallest one has no hair right across her nose but no open wound now.
The bigger piggy has a bite wound behind one ear (it has scabbed). I'm assuming this is the one on antibiotics.
They're now separated & in my kitchen. I daren't put them in the same room as my piggies just incase they're not bite marks.
Tho' they can't stay there :-\
I've bathed the wound with salt water & can see that an old wound mark near her eye, the hair is just growing back. I sent a text asking which one was the "top pig" she thought it was the smaller of the two as this one had been mounting the other & always bagged the house.
The only other thing i've noticed is like white stuff on their ears, near the ends - a bit like salt petre on your shoes, does anyone know what this is?
Eventhough they've inflicted wounds on each other does this mean they may be fine with other piggies? If they won't individually join any of my piggies i will have to rehome them
Here i go again - "psycho pigs" abound in this house ;D
All advice welcomed
