anyar.dris
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As you know, our little boy Timmy passed away on Thursday night. Friday, Deedee showed very unusual behaviors throughout the day like sniffing everything (even the air!), roaming around the living room like looking for something, and freezing a few times like she's going in a trance state. We know she's looking for Timmy because Timmy became her shadow after they got along. Meemee doesn't seem to be bothered, but right away she returned to being very lazy like she was before we adopted Timmy (eat-sleep the whole time!). Timmy used to chase and try to hump her so she'd move around the house.
Saturday, Deedee showed aggression towards Meemee. She tried to mount her a few times, so Meemee ended up staying away from her the whole morning till noon (in the run on the floor) and Deedee ended up staying in their upper room of the hutch and didn't even get out.
Because of that, hubby became worried. The two girls haven't loss their appetite but the sudden change of Deedee made hubby thought of adopting a new piggie right away. He looked at websites and inquired to a few rescue centres that are near enough to us (around 2 hrs drive at most) but we cannot find a lone neutered male. He did see an 18 month old neutered male from RSPCA but it said that it had a complication after neutering, which we just had experienced with Timmy (so he didn't really like the idea of it). The other one we liked was unfortunately (for us anyway) had bonded to another guinea pig (RSPCA website wasn't updated). What we've seen are mostly females or pairs, which we wouldn't be able to handle.
So as much as I don't want to buy pets from the shop, it left us no choice. We went to 2 Pets at Home near us at around 4pm. Both shops each has a lone male guinea pig for adoption, but both aren't neutered. We ended up buying a 12 week old little girl. I'm not sure if we did the right thing. Did we get a new piggie very soon? The new piggie seemed to settle quite so fast and Deedee seemed to get preoccupied right away and is now curious with the new addition (at the moment they are in the play run on the living room floor but separated). As for Meemee, she's still her usual self, as long as there's food she's fine (she likes the new girl though).
I still cry everytime I miss Timmy, which is a lot of times. Hubby also mentions and remembers him throughout the day (which also makes me cry!). We just thought that getting the new piggie was necessary for the girls at the moment. But did we do the right thing?
Saturday, Deedee showed aggression towards Meemee. She tried to mount her a few times, so Meemee ended up staying away from her the whole morning till noon (in the run on the floor) and Deedee ended up staying in their upper room of the hutch and didn't even get out.
Because of that, hubby became worried. The two girls haven't loss their appetite but the sudden change of Deedee made hubby thought of adopting a new piggie right away. He looked at websites and inquired to a few rescue centres that are near enough to us (around 2 hrs drive at most) but we cannot find a lone neutered male. He did see an 18 month old neutered male from RSPCA but it said that it had a complication after neutering, which we just had experienced with Timmy (so he didn't really like the idea of it). The other one we liked was unfortunately (for us anyway) had bonded to another guinea pig (RSPCA website wasn't updated). What we've seen are mostly females or pairs, which we wouldn't be able to handle.
So as much as I don't want to buy pets from the shop, it left us no choice. We went to 2 Pets at Home near us at around 4pm. Both shops each has a lone male guinea pig for adoption, but both aren't neutered. We ended up buying a 12 week old little girl. I'm not sure if we did the right thing. Did we get a new piggie very soon? The new piggie seemed to settle quite so fast and Deedee seemed to get preoccupied right away and is now curious with the new addition (at the moment they are in the play run on the living room floor but separated). As for Meemee, she's still her usual self, as long as there's food she's fine (she likes the new girl though).
I still cry everytime I miss Timmy, which is a lot of times. Hubby also mentions and remembers him throughout the day (which also makes me cry!). We just thought that getting the new piggie was necessary for the girls at the moment. But did we do the right thing?
