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I feel for you in this situation OP I have been in it a few times and its actually why I'm on a break from piggies, lack of piggy bank rescues in the area and the one that is around often dont respond for several weeks and then its like hitting your head against a brick wall in the wait whilst your animal is depressed and you're stressed because of it, this rescue also has many of their pigs in foster homes in a huge variety of places making it difficult to actually get to meet any of the pigs and makes transport a nightmare, the rescue HQ is actually just about impossible to travel to and from in a day via public transport and its too far for me to drive. Other piggy bank rescues that are easier to get to but further away refused to rehome to me on the basis of having house rabbits and another had no piggies suitable. There are other non piggy bank rescues but some of their practices leave me weary of adopting from them. Luckily in the times I needed a pig I found one via a friend of a friend of a friend and another a woman at work had one on the intranet for free, not the ideal way to do things but there was simply no other option at this point. The stress from trying to find them friends seriously affected me.

I also actually do hamster private rescue and rehoming along with volunteer admin for a rabbit rescue and have been on exactly the other end having very impatient people bugging me for not responding to their message they sent at 1am and its now 7pm and then getting tonnes of emails demanding I respond etc all through the night and day when I'm at work, I aim for a 24 hour response time personally but so many folks cant wait that long without "bugging" us for want of another word, we're glad for enthusiasm but not for emails that wake us up that are not urgent!

So in short OP good luck :-)
 
Amysmom said:
I completely understand this but the point I'm trying to make is that there are no exceptions at all. We have a 3 year old boy who after losing his cage mate that he was very close to is in need of a new cage mate because he is lonely. Surely if RSPCA don't want people in this situation to go to breeders (which they are trying to stop through neutering) they would consider an individual situation. That to me is putting an animals welfare first i.e Cookie.

I must add again-the email we received said nothing about them neutering all boars to stop breeding. It said they don't put boars together because 99% end up fighting-this was the reason they gave us.
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That's just the way it goes with that branch then unfortunately for you. Rescues have rules and whether or not they make sense to us or we agree to them is of no consequence, they are in place and that is all there is to it I guess. I can understand your frustration but it looks like you will have to look elsewhere to get Cookie a friend. Have you tried any other local Rescues?
 
sport_billy said:
That's just the way it goes with that branch then unfortunately for you. Rescues have rules and whether or not they make sense to us or we agree to them is of no consequence, they are in place and that is all there is to it I guess. I can understand your frustration but it looks like you will have to look elsewhere to get Cookie a friend. Have you tried any other local Rescues?
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To be honest I don't know of any local rescues.
 
Your by us, aren't you Wombourne way? Potteries are over in Stoke on Trent, any good?
 
I am in agreement with you and wouldn't consider getting Cookie neutered either to get a Wifey Pig at his age - so it does leave you looking for somewhere that offers Adult Boar Dating or somewhere that would try and bond a baby piggie with him. Otherwise it will be you trying to bond on your own. If you are willing to travel to Rescues it would be a case of ringing round and asking which ones could possibly accommodate you for Boar dating. Here is the Recommended Rescue link

https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/?pages/guinea-pig-rescue-locator/

You can only try so much before you will have to look at other routes of obtaining a new friend for Cookie. Cookie is the most important part of this.


EDIT - Link correction, Falken.
 
Thank you for your help. I will look see what I can do regarding other rescues but I am limited regarding travel so anything too far away isn't possible. Hopefully our vet has done some ringing around and might have come up with something.

As you say though Cookies needs are what are important and these past few days he's been looking pretty fed up so anything too time consuming won't be considered. We bonded Cookie with both of his past partners with no problems so hopefully if we have to do it ourselves again it will be as easy as it was before.
 
I hope you find a friend for Cookie soon, there are non piggy bank rescues that offer boar dating near us, but you will have to decide based on each rescue's own merits if you think they are "safe" to adopt from X
 
I'm not sure about England but in a lot of our pets at home in Scotland there are adoption corners. My local store currently have 2 male piggies needing rehomed separately. Might be worth asking around a few pets at home to see if they have any x
 
Harry&lloyd said:
I'm not sure about England but in a lot of our pets at home in Scotland there are adoption corners. My local store currently have 2 male piggies needing rehomed separately. Might be worth asking around a few pets at home to see if they have any x
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I have seen Piggys up for adoption in the P@H by us but they are in pairs-we need one and really it needs to be a baby because Cookie is 3. We are currently waiting to hear from a rescue centre who might have a baby boar coming their way soon so fingers crossed!
 
It seems the rescue (The Potteries) don't have a baby boar coming after all :(

I fell in love with a gorgeous boy at our local farm shop today, not ideal I know but looking at their horrible living conditions I see it as giving him the loving home he deserves, he didn't ask to be born and put there :( We are going to take a look at him on Tuesday, Cookie needs a friend and that's all that matters right now.
 
It sounds to me like you are trying your best and at the end of the day, you have to do what is right for Cookie.

If you do go for the little boy at the farm shop, please make sure you do a two week quarantine but I am pretty sure you know to do that anyway.

I really do hope you manage to find a new friend for Cookie soon and I look forward to hearing about your new addition.

Good luck x
 
Good luck with the new boy. I agree with Claire that it is best to quarantine.
 
There is another place we could get a piggy from who take them back if things don't work out but only after a couple of days so in this situation how would we be able to quarantine? I know that some rescues do boar dating so again how would this work if your going to quarantine?
 
If you get a piggy from resuce then they should have already been quarantined and have no health issues. Also, I believe rescues who do full boar dating do it onsite so u leave your boy there for a few days and then you only take the new one back if they successfully bonded.
 
As for pet shop or farm piggies, they have a high reputation for being sold with illnesses, if you don't quarantine then you run the risk of any illnesses being passed on to your original pig.
 
I had a similar situation when trying to adopt a rabbit from the Manchester RSPCA branch. The bunny had a 6x5 shed with a 6x5 run attached waiting for her, along with a husbun waiting to bond with her, a great diet and a lot of TLC. Do you know what they said when we phoned?

"Your dog and all 5 guinea pigs need to be neutered before we can rehome to you".

I was gobsmacked. At the time we had 5 female guinea pigs and I was in no way prepared to unnecessarily spay them (along with not being able to afford it) and neutering the dog isn't my choice as he is a family pet.

From that moment forward I thought to myself "why do people complain there are so many pets in rescues when they are so fussy". I mean, what do my dog and guinea pigs have to do with my rabbit care?

Anyway, I hope you manage to find Cookie the perfect friend and he perks up again very soon xx
 
LeahsPiggies said:
I had a similar situation when trying to adopt a rabbit from the Manchester RSPCA branch. The bunny had a 6x5 shed with a 6x5 run attached waiting for her, along with a husbun waiting to bond with her, a great diet and a lot of TLC. Do you know what they said when we phoned?

"Your dog and all 5 guinea pigs need to be neutered before we can rehome to you".

I was gobsmacked. At the time we had 5 female guinea pigs and I was in no way prepared to unnecessarily spay them (along with not being able to afford it) and neutering the dog isn't my choice as he is a family pet.

From that moment forward I thought to myself "why do people complain there are so many pets in rescues when they are so fussy". I mean, what do my dog and guinea pigs have to do with my rabbit care?

Anyway, I hope you manage to find Cookie the perfect friend and he perks up again very soon xx
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Disgusting. They must have an OCD for neutering!
I've given up with RSPCA, they didn't even return my call, don't think I will be donating to them anytime in the future!

We have had petshop Piggys before, yes one had ringworm but it was easily treatable and the others were healthy when we had them so I'm prepared to take the risk......for Cookie and in my opinion that makes me a GOOD owner.
 
Amysmom said:
It seems the rescue (The Potteries) don't have a baby boar coming after all :(

I fell in love with a gorgeous boy at our local farm shop today, not ideal I know but looking at their horrible living conditions I see it as giving him the loving home he deserves, he didn't ask to be born and put there :( We are going to take a look at him on Tuesday, Cookie needs a friend and that's all that matters right now.
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Oh so sorry hun, that's probably my fault as we thought we'd need to find Bertie a home and Hennie was going to help but now that Livvy won't accept any of the gingers back into the group and we're going to end up with two groups we thought we might as well have Bertie neutered when he's big enough so that he can go back with his mummy and sisters. Hope you find a friend for Cookie soon. x
 
Hope you find him a friend. Although not perfect, a farm shop, garden centre or pet shop isnt the end of the world. My boys are from a garden centre and the vet confirmed they are both correctly sexed and as fit as a fiddle
 
newtoguineas said:
Hope you find him a friend. Although not perfect, a farm shop, garden centre or pet shop isnt the end of the world. My boys are from a garden centre and the vet confirmed they are both correctly sexed and as fit as a fiddle
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Thank you.
We are fortunate that we have a good cavy savy vet who would give any piggy that we get a health check.
 
I had a look in the adoption centre at P@H Kidderminster and there's a gorgeous boy called Jerry. He's got long fluffy fur and is very cute :) He's about 3-4 months old and is a little shy. I had a hold and fell in love with him. I'm going back with my daughter Friday night because Cookie is her pig so its her decision. I have to say they are very well looked after there-a bowl of fresh veggies and plenty of hay and Jerry looked the picture if health.
 
Well we tried to rescue-that wasn't possible so we tried to adopt from P@H adoption centre-that didn't work out. What could we do? Cookie needed a friend so after discussing it we did what we didn't want to do-we bought Cookie a friend, a baby from P@H and I'm so glad we did because Cookie is so HAPPY :)
It was the greatest gift we could give him and seeing him grow attached to his new friend is just heart warming. Cookies new friend is 8 weeks old and we named him Billy. He has a face like a badger and a lovely rosette on his head.

I will be emailing P@H to suggest they make sure their staff know what they are on about. We wanted to adopt a lovely boy called Gerry who was around 4mths old and the papers were brought out etc but when I told her that we had spoken with a lady two days before who said we could bring him back after 48hrs if things didn't turn out well she said we were told wrong. She suggested a baby because there's more chance a Cookie would take to it and it could be brought back. So sadly we felt it was a risk with Gerry. Once we had chosen a baby I asked how long before he could be returned if things didn't go well she said we couldn't! She said it would be too stressful for the pig but we will get a courtesy call asking how Billy is. What if I told her Cookie didnt accept him? I suspect she would say we could return him but no refund-is this how they end up in the adoption centre? She really did talk a load of waffle about everything and seemed to make it all up as she went along.

The main thing is though is that Cookie is happy and Billy has come to a fantastic home. They didn't ask to be born so EVERY pig deserves to be loved.
 
So pleased you have a new friend for Cookie, his happiness is the most important thing. Lookign forward to hearing lots more abotu this blossoming friendship
 
Yay! Cookie finally has a friend, so pleased it all worked out in the end and very happy for him. x
 
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