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Senior Guinea Pig
We lost our beautiful Rosie in the early hours of the morning yesterday. We had been treating her since Thursday after she came down with what looked like a respiratory infection but without some of the typical signs you would expect such as fluid from the nose etc. She was treated with diuretic and antibiotics but was not responding though she was not too bad in herself, just her breathing was a worry. When I went to bed on Friday she had had her meds and was all snuggled up in her hay eating some grass and I felt happy to leave her to it. I got up yesterday morning to find that she had passed away in her favourite spot (her taunting other pigs spot). Having spoken to my rodentologist and vet it looks like she died of "Walking pneumonia", proper name is Atypical Pneumonia. It does not have all of the common symptoms and kills very quickly. There was actually nothing else we could have done to stop it. I am completely devastated.
Rosie came to live with us on 29th August 2011 aged approximately 3 years. Her friend Alice had passed away and her owners wanted her to have some new friends so she came to join the herd. Unfortunately things didn't go as planned with the bonding and this meant that Rosie had to live on her own. A later attempt with little baby Rose also failed and this told us Rosie was happy on her own taunting the others from behind her grids.
She was a real character and a real creature of habit, every day without fail she would wait for us to start clearing her hay and jump into her fleecy parcel or pigloo until we were finished. She didn't understand the concept of floortime and would sit in her parcel until we put her back in the cage.
She was my guinea cat, would sit for ages on my lap on her spotty lap blanket, sometimes grooming my arm. She didn't like to wee on me so would chatter to tell me she wanted to go back in. If she couldn't be bothered though she would reverse off her blanket so she did not have to sit in her wee. We always had to remember when carrying her not to put our fingers in front of her face as she would bite them, the other pigs also learnt not to put their noses through her grids either as the same thing happened.
All of this makes her sound vicious but she wasn't at all, she was the softest sweetest little guinea cat in the world and we are completely heartbroken that she had to leave us so suddenly.
Guinea Pig Clinic was always an adventure with Posie too, as if we stacked her carrier on top of the others she would somehow manage to wee on those below her, much to their disgust.
Sleep tight beautiful Posie Pie, we will never forget you and will love you always, go have fun at the bridge with Alice, the only pig you ever wanted to live with.
Here are some pics:
When she arrived:
Trying to ignore Rose during bonding:
Rosie came to live with us on 29th August 2011 aged approximately 3 years. Her friend Alice had passed away and her owners wanted her to have some new friends so she came to join the herd. Unfortunately things didn't go as planned with the bonding and this meant that Rosie had to live on her own. A later attempt with little baby Rose also failed and this told us Rosie was happy on her own taunting the others from behind her grids.
She was a real character and a real creature of habit, every day without fail she would wait for us to start clearing her hay and jump into her fleecy parcel or pigloo until we were finished. She didn't understand the concept of floortime and would sit in her parcel until we put her back in the cage.
She was my guinea cat, would sit for ages on my lap on her spotty lap blanket, sometimes grooming my arm. She didn't like to wee on me so would chatter to tell me she wanted to go back in. If she couldn't be bothered though she would reverse off her blanket so she did not have to sit in her wee. We always had to remember when carrying her not to put our fingers in front of her face as she would bite them, the other pigs also learnt not to put their noses through her grids either as the same thing happened.
All of this makes her sound vicious but she wasn't at all, she was the softest sweetest little guinea cat in the world and we are completely heartbroken that she had to leave us so suddenly.
Guinea Pig Clinic was always an adventure with Posie too, as if we stacked her carrier on top of the others she would somehow manage to wee on those below her, much to their disgust.
Sleep tight beautiful Posie Pie, we will never forget you and will love you always, go have fun at the bridge with Alice, the only pig you ever wanted to live with.
Here are some pics:
When she arrived:
Trying to ignore Rose during bonding:
rest in peace Rosie x
