Lisajazz
Senior Guinea Pig
I thought I would put up a thread of our secret santa piggies for everyone to see, makes finding photos of them easier for anyone who is allocated them.
We have only put forward pigs that are 'lifers' here at the rescue - they will be with us forever for one reason or another and I will tell you a little about them and their stories.
Princess and Kitty - lots of you know them already - came into the rescue with severe skin issues and are still recovering. They were dumped at a vets locally who rang me to see if I would take them - I did. Staying at the rescue due to increased likelyhood of skin conditions and damaged nerve endings as a result of the extensive damage.
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Sooty
Sooty came in the last couple of months. She is a pensioner whose friend died and the owner didn't want any more pigs, so rather than leave her alone brought her to us. She's so cute and always so hungry! She occassionally has a runny eye but other than this is in good health. I bonded her with our other special needs pigs (see below) and she now lives as part of a herd very happily. At 4 1/2 years old I decided she wasn't going from her old home to me and then on again to another home, she deserves a nice warm retirement home and thats what she has.
Matilda
The next two have come from the same place. My friend went to a breeder for piggies as she wanted some straight away and I didn't have what she had in mind. When speaking with the woman she was told that there was a piggy there that had had a stroke and if she wanted her then she could have her for free. I phoned and went and got her - turns out she hadn't had a stroke, was a brain illness that could possibly have gotten better with antibiotics but the breeder had assumed stroke and not treated. She lives a good life, often staring off into space and she hates being handled so we don't. But she's been here for over a year now no problems, she has a full on head tilt and her eyes are all blue and strange but she enjoys life and lives happily within a herd. When there collecting her the breeder told me about another one who I also took. Marigold
Marigold
Marigold was living at the same place as matilda. The breeder had been give her and she had noticed that Marigold wasnt eating enough to sustain her weight. So effectively she was getting thinner and thinner in her cage. I brought her to a rodentologist who clipped her teeth and told me it was the shape of her jaw that was the problem not her teeth, He felt that she had been inbred to have certain characteristics to show and this had resulted in jaw abnormality and maybe other internal problems.
I also took marigold to our vet and he said no way to rehome her as she has a number of things 'going on'. Marigold was syringe fed twice a day for over a year before we discovered that she can and will eat museli guinea pig mix all on her own. So this is what she has now, along with very finely chopped veg nightly and she sustains her weight very well indeed. Originally we were told she would probably live about 7 months she is now 18 months and going strong. Still less that 800g but not bony just petite. She also lives in the same herd as Matilda and Sooty and she is in charge of the cage too - head girl!
That's all of them - I hope you have enjoyed reading about our lifetime pigs here at Cardiff Guinea Pig Rescue. x
We have only put forward pigs that are 'lifers' here at the rescue - they will be with us forever for one reason or another and I will tell you a little about them and their stories.
Princess and Kitty - lots of you know them already - came into the rescue with severe skin issues and are still recovering. They were dumped at a vets locally who rang me to see if I would take them - I did. Staying at the rescue due to increased likelyhood of skin conditions and damaged nerve endings as a result of the extensive damage.
Next
Sooty
Sooty came in the last couple of months. She is a pensioner whose friend died and the owner didn't want any more pigs, so rather than leave her alone brought her to us. She's so cute and always so hungry! She occassionally has a runny eye but other than this is in good health. I bonded her with our other special needs pigs (see below) and she now lives as part of a herd very happily. At 4 1/2 years old I decided she wasn't going from her old home to me and then on again to another home, she deserves a nice warm retirement home and thats what she has.
Matilda
The next two have come from the same place. My friend went to a breeder for piggies as she wanted some straight away and I didn't have what she had in mind. When speaking with the woman she was told that there was a piggy there that had had a stroke and if she wanted her then she could have her for free. I phoned and went and got her - turns out she hadn't had a stroke, was a brain illness that could possibly have gotten better with antibiotics but the breeder had assumed stroke and not treated. She lives a good life, often staring off into space and she hates being handled so we don't. But she's been here for over a year now no problems, she has a full on head tilt and her eyes are all blue and strange but she enjoys life and lives happily within a herd. When there collecting her the breeder told me about another one who I also took. Marigold
Marigold
Marigold was living at the same place as matilda. The breeder had been give her and she had noticed that Marigold wasnt eating enough to sustain her weight. So effectively she was getting thinner and thinner in her cage. I brought her to a rodentologist who clipped her teeth and told me it was the shape of her jaw that was the problem not her teeth, He felt that she had been inbred to have certain characteristics to show and this had resulted in jaw abnormality and maybe other internal problems.
I also took marigold to our vet and he said no way to rehome her as she has a number of things 'going on'. Marigold was syringe fed twice a day for over a year before we discovered that she can and will eat museli guinea pig mix all on her own. So this is what she has now, along with very finely chopped veg nightly and she sustains her weight very well indeed. Originally we were told she would probably live about 7 months she is now 18 months and going strong. Still less that 800g but not bony just petite. She also lives in the same herd as Matilda and Sooty and she is in charge of the cage too - head girl!
That's all of them - I hope you have enjoyed reading about our lifetime pigs here at Cardiff Guinea Pig Rescue. x
This piggies are so lovely you take such good care of them
