Anyone's Significant Other Say "enough Guinea Pigs?"

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I got my crew of 5 girls and 1 boy. I want to adopt more. But I already got my husband saying no. LMFAO! He says we don't have enough room. But little does he know that I would make the room. Not that I have ever sneaked any in, lol.
 
We bought two females and one ended up pregnant, so now we have 2 boys and 3 girls. My husband wanted me to give the boys away, but after getting attached to them I just couldn’t! They are getting neutered next week so we are definitely keeping them! We had an electrician at the house yesterday and he said he is about to get rid of his guinea pig because the kids won’t take care of it... I was so close to saying “I’ll take it!”
 
I mean I use my money on. My time on, and he doesn't take care of them. Why should 1 more be a problem, lol. But then again guinea pigs are like potato chips, 1 is never enough.
 
l've had piggies for over 54 years, when my hubby of 30yrs died 18yrs ago,the piggies l had then kept me going, l will always have room to rescue and adopt another one,on tuesday next week the herds new house is arreiving a14' x11' summer house,l'm very excited about it.will
start another post when l get and start to custom it to their home.
 
I'm banned from anymore.. :td:

I look after them, pay for them, clean them etc., but he doesn't want the house turning into a pet shop.. But he loves them secretly...! He always shares his lunch with them (he works from home and has salad for lunch!)!:roll:
 
My boyfriend usually rolls his eyes and sighs when I ask him "Can we do x for the pigs?", but I've caught him sneaking into the pig room for cuddles and to feed them salad, even if he doesn't understand them very well. He doesn't get pretty animals; he's used to dogs. :D
 
Sometimes I like having a voice of reason in my boyfriend. He keeps me grounded. I would love to help any pig in need but I appreciate it when he reminds me that our house is small, we don't earn alot and I've not had a holiday for at least 8 years because of their upkeep.
 
I meant "prey" animals. My phone likes to change words without me realising.
 
After getting two piggies my hubby decided he wanted his own and we surprised him with Pickle (toella) as PAH called her as she has extra toes. When he finally got her yesterday he was so excited. He won’t tell his mates though!
 
Pigmamma said:
After getting two piggies my hubby decided he wanted his own and we surprised him with Pickle (toella) as PAH called her as she has extra toes. When he finally got her yesterday he was so excited. He won’t tell his mates though!
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I bet he won't!
 
Personally I don't always agree with DH about such things, but in hindsight I do agree that he is often a voice of reason in helping me be realistic about how many piggies we can deal with.
Plus he always pays the vets bills without question (ok, maybe some quiet eye rolling).
But he is a good man and kind person, and although we always agreed our maximum was 3 piggies (we also have other pets) he did agree we could take on a fourth when Oreo came up.
And most recently he said yes to a fifth because Lucy ended up alone, and he could see this wasn't her choice and wasn't fair on her.
But even i agree that five is our maximum!
 
Well I got a companion for Frosty the snow pig (note frosty isn't even white and is 5 months old) This big guy is named Kevin. He's 15 months old, within 24hrs after getting him (got him Saturday) I had to give him a bath. And clip his nails previous owners were pretty nice though. I ordered some better pellets (oxbow) and he started digging into it nicely. So hopefully after a few week quarantine I can introduce them.received_425616331233794.webp
 
Honestly, my husband feels like no pets is the correct number of pets. I kind of feel like he pulled a bait-and-switch on me, as when we got married we had a pet hedgehog that he also doted on. He was really upset when she died and I think after that he didn't want to invest in them emotionally anymore. Then once we had kids, he figured we didn't 'need' to have pets anymore, which makes me think that he thought of them as 'practice babies' somehow! I think the kids and I came out on top, though... we ended up with two pigs and now that two pigs is the status quo, he seems to have accepted that I am just going to maintain that number. He let our middle child get her own hamster because she's on the autism spectrum and prefers animals to people and had, over a long period of time, expressed that she wanted a pet that was 'just hers.' So he said yes, I think on the premise that it would be good for her. Then our younger child wanted a hamster as well and he kind of threw up his hands and said, "What difference does it even make at this point?" So I feel like over time, we gradually broke him! LOL! Weirdly enough, he doesn't interact much with the pigs and goes nowhere near the dwarf hamster (who is admittedly kind of a psycho), but he will let middle child's latest hamster roam over him when she is wandering around on the couch, so for some reason he seems to prefer Carmen to the other animals in the house.
 
My husband pretty much goes along with what I am doing although there was a moment at first when he was a little chagrined at how much more we had to adapt to guinea pigs. He does cuddle and help them however and we now found out through a mis-sexing mistake that there are more babies coming. To be honest, my daughter and hubby are very close so even if he were against more with me, one conversation with my daughter and her guinea pigs (she's 17, keeps the boar rescues in her room) and he is loving them.

At first, my daughter and I had the projects of extending cages and making cavy cages. When he was a bit off set with the work and space27972619_418787301910867_6348265172904900260_n.webp, I had the024.webp27867189_418787215244209_6027180914750697828_n.webp27912701_418786098577654_6636610758760119976_o.webpIMG_20180506_110521.webp make a project together of creating her cages and adding. It went a very long way; there is nothing my husband likes better then measuring and creating a project except when he can do that with our daughter.

I have more problems with my son actually. He is 20 and is having some medical changes with prescriptions. He's a great kid and working through it but he really disliked having the guinea pigs around and would have a few eruptions then slamming the doors. This can sound extreme and strange but he is having some large changes with the new meds that will set him off. However, I had a heart scare recently, went into the hospital and it left my husband and daughter in charge of the guinea pigs. My son was affected greatly and I asked him to help with the guinea pigs. This so far has done the trick. I am adding that my home is now probably a lot like everyone else here with cavy cages extending through at least half the rooms (family room and bedrooms). They have become a significant addition; we gave up the coffee table for added length and width and I believe we lost an overnight visit from an elderly aunt for fear of all the guinea pigs in the house lol. Love me, love my guineas............:-)
 

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The pics of dads and guinea pigs are too cute here-love the blackmail add-on :-) and Dennis and dad is just too cute! Glad to see there are lots of cavy crazy homes. Beautiful new boy there DAH!
 
The original two came about as a result of my pleading and exhaustive researching. OH made it really clear we would not be adding to our herd, we were only having this single boar pair. OH came to love Tubs and Flubs just as much as me in time -- that bond was made really special when we had a bad scare with Tubs and he scampered halfway over Rainbow Bridge.

After it was clear Tubs and Flubs had fallen out, we only planned to let them have a sow each after they were neutered, for a max of 4. However, Tubs got two ladies due to his illness, we didn't want to go through the hassle of separating the baby sisters we had gotten and we thought 2 babies might make him perk up... so OH said Flubs better have a pair of girls as well.

When Tablet (Flub's wifey) had 3 surprise babies, I was all for rehoming them. OH fell in love and wouldn't let me, in the end. So we both agreed 9 pigs is the max we can manage, though I do often grumble about my wish for "only" 4 pigs.

Then we started fostering for the local rescue. We currently have two older gentleboars. I had an agreement with the rescue where we would swap out the pigs every month or so, to allow more pigs to get the benefit of one-to-one care and attention. It also meant we wouldn't get attached. We've had our current foster boars for 3 months and the OH is finding it hard to discuss giving them back. We absolutely cannot have 11 perma-pigs, but what can I do, he's a big softie.

It does make me laugh that originally he was like "TWO guinea pigs is the MAXIMUM" and now I'm the one talking about having too many pigs :))
 
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