Freya’s tribe!

[Freya1234]

I wanted to start a thread for my piggies so here it is...

Smudge (three year old boar)

Smokey (three year old boar)

Mya (8 year old sow - she does live by herself as when her companion died we thought that she was going to go soon aswell given her age but she’s still just a sprightly as the boys even at her old age)

We also have Milo (who isn’t a guinea pig but he’s too cute to not be featured)

All of the animals live inside and I look forward to recording all of the adventures!

 

[Bill & Ted]

Aw, what a gorgeous little family you have there. Gosh Mya must be one of the oldest piggies on the forum

 

[Piggies&buns]

Gorgeous piggies and yes Milo is too cute to not have his pic shared! (I’ll occasionally throw a picture of my bunny out there as he gets jealous of the piggies attention!)

 

[Claire W]

What a wonderful fury family

 

[Freya1234]

Piggie breakfast!

 

[Siikibam]

Smudge is soooooo handsome! So are Milo and Mya of course

 

[Flutterby]

Beautiful cuties!

 

[Merab]

What beautiful piggies.
I’m going to enjoy this thread.

 

[Freya1234]

I found my old camera the other day and it has some photos of Mya from april 2013 where we think that she is about 1 (She could be 2 but we can’t 100% remember whether we got her in 2011 or 2012). This is from when she used to live outside with her cage mate spot (on the left) and also our old rabbit Patches (I now know rabbits aren’t supposed to live with guinea pigs but at the time didn’t). She has also changed to a completely different colour in her old age!


And here she is this morning eating some pepper still looking just as beautiful as ever (even with a bit of a dirty face)

 

[Freya1234]

Managed to get a photo of Smokey asleep with his eyes closed
He’s even gone to bed with his little white socks on
(I didn’t want to get too close and wake him up so had to zoom in quite alot)

 

[Merab]

That’s a heart melting picture

 

[Freya1234]

Just some photos of the boys who wanted to make sure that my phone wasn’t edible while I was taking photos of them (because obviously they are absolutely starving and definitely didn’t have some breakfast this morning!)

 

[Freya1234]

The boys are outside munching on some grass this morning!
(in the shady part of the garden)

 

[Freya1234]

Slave was at least a whole 10 minutes late for our breakfast this morning!
So we had to show her how empty our bellies were!

 

[Freya1234]

Mya wanted to show everyone her new lipstick- she has tried it out this morning and says it tastes like carrots!
*sorry about the photo bombing hay but Mya was it bit secretive about her lipstick

 

[VickiA]

Beautiful photos, and lovely to see how hay gets moved from side to side in the mouth, too.

 

[Freya1234]

So, some not so great news for the thread.
Smokey has been a wheezy pig ever since i’ve had him, he has been vet checked before but the vet couldn’t hear anything as it seemed to be selective wheeziness (his wheeziness was actually the reason I joined the forum and I got lots of helpful advice - so thank you). More recently Smokey’s wheeziness has become more frequent and his breathing has become very visible on his sides when he’s relaxed as well as the fact that his weight was continuously dropping each week so I decided to get him booked into the vets. He went on Saturday, with Smudge for moral support! I went with a piece of paper where I had written his symptoms and his weight drop as I have been lucky enough to not have been to the vet since coronavirus so wasn’t sure how it would work (and it was lucky I did as it was heavy snow so the vet didn’t stick around to chat outside the car for very long-understandable!) anyway to cut a long story short the vet could hear that his chest was noisy and she suggested it could be a heart problem, so she said I could either put Smokey in for an x-ray with a light anaesthetic OR she prescribes some heart medicine (Frusol) and some painkillers (Loxicom) and then if his symptoms improve we can take the loxicom away and if the symptoms don’t return we keep Smokey on Frusol, but if his symptoms don’t improve at all she says that an x-ray would need to happen. So due to the risk of the anesthetic and my slight suspect going to the vet appointment that it was a heart problem I went with the medicine option. So Smokey is now taking Frusol and Loxicom twice a day and hopefully his symptoms improve and I don’t have a wheezy pig anymore

 

[Merab]

Let’s hope the meds do work for Smokey and he stops wheezing .
Holding you in my thoughts

 

[Piggies&buns]

I hope Smokey feels better soon
sending hugs

 

[Bill & Ted]

That Smokey makes a full recovery very soon x

 

[Deleted member 139433]

Sending lots of love to you and Smokey. Hope he’s feeling better soon!

 

[Freya1234]

Little update:
Since it‘s been two weeks since Smokey went to the vet I gave the vet a call to give her an update and to find out where to go next, she said as Smokey’s wheeziness has been improved I can take him off of the loxicom, and if his wheeziness stays gone then it is a cardiac problem and he will stay on frusol for the foreseeable future. However, if it comes back then she wants to see how he does JUST on the loxicom and she then wants to take it from there.
Also I know that some people may have seen the thread I posted about Smokey struggling to take his medicine, well he is such a good boy at taking it now and will just let me do it while he sits in the cage. However we did have a few problems with Smudge being a bit jealous that he wasn’t poorly and he actually pulled the syringe out of Smokey’s mouth so that he could have some loxicom! I’m now feeding them and giving Smokey his medicine simultaneously which seems to be the best option for both piggies. I’ve also added some bonus pigtures because why not!

 

[Merab]

Hope the new meds regime does work well for Smokey

 

[Deleted member 139433]

Such gorgeous boys! hope Smokey continues to do well

 

[Freya1234]

Hope the new meds regime does work well for Smokey

Such gorgeous boys! hope Smokey continues to do well

Thank you to both of you