boureki
Senior Guinea Pig
We sadly lost this big, gorgeous and chunky lad at the weekend.
Bear came to us from the amazing Little Brambles GP Rescue in Devon all the way back in July 2008. He was a huge, handsome boy who gave us no trouble or worry at all in the time that we had him. He was quiet, and beautiful and was one of the lovliest, squishiest pigs I ever saw.
He would not take to any other boys and we did not want to get him neutered, so he lived happily inside next to Dylan in the big C&C.
All was well until a few weeks ago when we saw the dreaded red wee on the vetbed, so we immediately got it investigated and XRays showed a small stone which was apparently small enough to be passed on its own. We went through the usual routine with Septrin, etc and we had quite a few comings and goings to our vet, including an emergency visit late one Saturday night, but with our help in feeding as he had gone off his food, he seemed to be chipper enough and making his way through it all.
Then last Monday he suddenly deteriorated. An urgent vet visit showed the stone in exactly the same place, so it wasn't that which had made him slide, but he went off his food and seemed to lose the will to live. 2 more subsequent visits, (and after he managed to pass the stone himself) we finally had to make that awful call as he had for some reason just given up, he would not eat or drink, and just lay there, despite our best efforts with painkillers, syringe feeding etc. The vet checked him thoroughly including his teeth, more Xrays, and said that unless we wanted to make him go through surgery to investigate (and quite possibly come up with zero) there was sadly nothing else she could do. Our vet is a guinea savvy one who will try anything she can, so when she said this, we had no wish to put him through any more, and made the decision to help him on his way, as he was clearly in pain and lost interest in life.
Bear, I hope Boomer, Scampy, Blaze and Oscar were waiting to welcome you to the Rainbow Bridge. We miss you terribly, my big, handsome, gorgeous, quiet lovely Squishy Bear.
Thank you, Louise at Little Brambles for letting him come to live with us. x
Bear came to us from the amazing Little Brambles GP Rescue in Devon all the way back in July 2008. He was a huge, handsome boy who gave us no trouble or worry at all in the time that we had him. He was quiet, and beautiful and was one of the lovliest, squishiest pigs I ever saw.
He would not take to any other boys and we did not want to get him neutered, so he lived happily inside next to Dylan in the big C&C.
All was well until a few weeks ago when we saw the dreaded red wee on the vetbed, so we immediately got it investigated and XRays showed a small stone which was apparently small enough to be passed on its own. We went through the usual routine with Septrin, etc and we had quite a few comings and goings to our vet, including an emergency visit late one Saturday night, but with our help in feeding as he had gone off his food, he seemed to be chipper enough and making his way through it all.
Then last Monday he suddenly deteriorated. An urgent vet visit showed the stone in exactly the same place, so it wasn't that which had made him slide, but he went off his food and seemed to lose the will to live. 2 more subsequent visits, (and after he managed to pass the stone himself) we finally had to make that awful call as he had for some reason just given up, he would not eat or drink, and just lay there, despite our best efforts with painkillers, syringe feeding etc. The vet checked him thoroughly including his teeth, more Xrays, and said that unless we wanted to make him go through surgery to investigate (and quite possibly come up with zero) there was sadly nothing else she could do. Our vet is a guinea savvy one who will try anything she can, so when she said this, we had no wish to put him through any more, and made the decision to help him on his way, as he was clearly in pain and lost interest in life.
Bear, I hope Boomer, Scampy, Blaze and Oscar were waiting to welcome you to the Rainbow Bridge. We miss you terribly, my big, handsome, gorgeous, quiet lovely Squishy Bear.
Thank you, Louise at Little Brambles for letting him come to live with us. x
He was a stunning little piggy thats for sure x)
