Chocolate&Coconut
Junior Guinea Pig
Hello,
I've been away for a while... some of you may remember me posting about sadly losing our gorgeous Rusty to a URI just over a month ago, leaving Pascal all alone. Well, Pascal has fully recovered from his URI and is now a healthy pig. And the most exciting news is that he now has a new friend! A few weeks ago the rodentologist that we go to recommended a different rescue centre, and we selected a spayed female guinea pig (about 8 months old) to be Pascal's new friend. The guinea pigs she was with were all white, all of around the same age and size, so to identify which one was ours, the woman at the rescue, marked our pig's head with a green mark (which she assured us wasn't harmful). Because of this green mark, we decided to call her Jade.
But before we could take Jade with us, we had to have a home visit. The whole process took a little while, and we could tell that Pascal was still feeling down and lonely. He was still so jumpy, and spent most of his time in his pigloo. But on Sunday, we got to go and pick Jade up and bring her home! We introduced them outside in their run, and when Pascal first acknowledged her... well... let's just say he was rather excited to be in the company of a female guinea pig for the first time in his life! He spent pretty much the whole of the first day chasing her around and rumbling! That behaviour has now calmed down considerably, and they seem to be getting on really well. She follows him around now, and quite often I'll come into my room to find them both lying next to each other. We haven't really handled Jade yet, as for the first two days she was incredibly timid, but she seems to be settling in a little better each day. She seems more confident, moving around more, and is eating and drinking more now too.
And the change in Pascal is so noticeable already! He's no longer so jumpy, and I saw him popcorn for the first time ever today, which made me very happy
So I just wanted to share this with people who understand Here are a couple of pigtures from their first meeting:
Jade and Pascal
Chasing!
Jade and Pascal
I've been away for a while... some of you may remember me posting about sadly losing our gorgeous Rusty to a URI just over a month ago, leaving Pascal all alone. Well, Pascal has fully recovered from his URI and is now a healthy pig. And the most exciting news is that he now has a new friend! A few weeks ago the rodentologist that we go to recommended a different rescue centre, and we selected a spayed female guinea pig (about 8 months old) to be Pascal's new friend. The guinea pigs she was with were all white, all of around the same age and size, so to identify which one was ours, the woman at the rescue, marked our pig's head with a green mark (which she assured us wasn't harmful). Because of this green mark, we decided to call her Jade.
But before we could take Jade with us, we had to have a home visit. The whole process took a little while, and we could tell that Pascal was still feeling down and lonely. He was still so jumpy, and spent most of his time in his pigloo. But on Sunday, we got to go and pick Jade up and bring her home! We introduced them outside in their run, and when Pascal first acknowledged her... well... let's just say he was rather excited to be in the company of a female guinea pig for the first time in his life! He spent pretty much the whole of the first day chasing her around and rumbling! That behaviour has now calmed down considerably, and they seem to be getting on really well.
She follows him around now, and quite often I'll come into my room to find them both lying next to each other. We haven't really handled Jade yet, as for the first two days she was incredibly timid, but she seems to be settling in a little better each day. She seems more confident, moving around more, and is eating and drinking more now too.And the change in Pascal is so noticeable already! He's no longer so jumpy, and I saw him popcorn for the first time ever today, which made me very happy
So I just wanted to share this with people who understand Here are a couple of pigtures from their first meeting:
Jade and Pascal
Chasing!
Jade and Pascal
