Has this happened to anyone else ?

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When me and the girls got back from school this afternoon we found a pet carrier with a tiny little sow inside on the doorstep, no note or anything. I'm just shocked that someone would do this, I love pigs but am not a rescue or affiliated with one. That said she is beautiful and staying but I just can't stop thinking who done this they obviously know enough about us to know where we live and that we keep pigs but my mind is racing. She is very small, smaller than I've ever had personally so prob less than 8 weeks but she seems healthy and isn't nervous my daughters been holding her and feeding her grass and parsley i just can't beleive some people. My hub says there are far worse things they could have done with her and of corse i agree but still its very odd
 
That's strange, unless you're known locally as "the guinea pig woman" or something. Never had that happen to be personally, but have heard of it happening to a lot of people :-\

Poor piggy, but she's lucky to be put on your doorstep, someone who knows about piggies and will care for her.
 
I like to think I'm not known as the "guinea pig lady" but living in a village and having two daughters who never stop talking and regularly have piggy hair down their front I guess people know I have them. This is just bizzare her being alone and so tiny unless shes the runt or something i don't understand it she doesn't seem big enough to be from a shop and the pet carriers a very nice one so they've lost that too.
 
You can report this as abandoning an animal is illegal, I run a private rescue and have had this done, only once have I reported it though and that was because the poor piggys was dumped with his brother who was dead in the box. Some ppl just don't know what to do, its too easy to have pets these days and ppl get bored or it costs to much for them!
 
I would just accept that someone thinks enough of you to know that the little one would be well looked after and cared for. It is clearly someone who has faith in you, we don't know what their predicament is/was and the reason for it but someone somewhere wanted her to be safe. Good luck with her - enjoy!
 
I have accepted the situation and she is NOT going anywhere my eldest has named her Amber and after quarantine she can go with my sow who is only young and currently alone,as for reporting I have no clue who done this but guess as my hub said she could have been dumped in far worse places so i now have an extra little angel .I just can't get over how small she is she sits in the palm of my hand. Anything special i should be giving her that i don't give the rest.
 
She sounds a little doll. Sounds like your doing great with her, as its been said weigh her and if she is eating well just keep encouraging her. I have an Amber too, she is very sweet and cute! ;D

Good luck with her! :)
 
so glad she was left at someone's door who knows and loves piggies. :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: glad you and your daughters havd taken her in and are spoiling her O0
hoping to see pictures soon of the little sweetheart O0 keep us updated on the little lady and hugs for amber :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: like said something worse could have happened to her and we don't know the person's situation, so just do what you are doing and care for amber and spoil her like you are :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
 
I found a bird cage on my doorstep 3 weeks ago with 12 piggies in it boars sows and newborns all in together. I am not a rescue but word soon spreads if you ever take one in as I have in the past. It has been a sad time as I lost bubs I was hand rearing, there has been deaths, stillborns, babies having babies but I have had so much support from a forum I go on and when the bad times pass my new extended kin bring me so much happiness. Good luck with yours
 
aw poor thing but lucky she was left on your doorstep :smitten:
 
I had a neighbour a few years back hand us a stray rabbit saying that "he knew we had rabbits so we were the first place he knew of" we took her in and kept her and she was a star :smitten:

I have no doubt that i will have someone else knocking at my door regarding another rabbit someday as everyone knows i have rabbits now!
 
I am so happy that you are keeping her so that she will have a new happy home. I'm glad the person put the piggy on your doorstop - they must have known that you would take good care of her. Its so much better that they done that than really neglecting the poor wee thing. Hope she is happy in her new home! :smitten:
 
We had someone drive down our road, shove a rabbit out the door, then drive off again :tickedoff: :tickedoff: :'( :'(

We took him in and looked after him; he didn't seem overally bothered by what had happened to him. He was a proper bug bunny! He didn't look in bad condition and just loved cuddles. We re-homed him with a family who already kept rabbits and he is really happy and settled now! :smitten: ;) :smitten:

Some people are just horrible!
 
Aw - poor rabbit! I wish people would think about the responsbility of what they taken on before they go ahead with it.

There's a lady at my work who recently got her family a dog but you could just tell it was just through poor pressure from her children - I'm just concerned that further down the line they're going to get bored with it. Also she has a little girl who won't give the puppy a minute's peace which has resulted in the puppy snapping at her because she's peed off and all the lady says it there's just no telling her........and I just want to scream at her cause there is telling her! I can just see something happening and its not the poor puppy's fault.
 
I would be absolutely delighted if someone popped a little piggy on my doorstep. As you say, you are not a rescue, but word must have got around that you are a caring person with experience of guinea pigs.

Just give her plenty of warmth, cuddles, grass, hay etc. and she will love you forever! :smitten: :smitten:

Post a picture of Amber when you can. I bet your daughters are well pleased and I think it is always invaluable to children to learn how to care for animals.

My daughters are 22 and 21. Sam, my 22 year old, does even live with me anymore as she has her own flat, but she was so taken with little Princess, the blind piggy, that I adopted. We have kept guinea pigs for 17 years now and they can't remember life without having a guinea pig!

I think this story is so sweet!
 
I'm glad they knew there was someone about who would look after her for them. It was bad of them to dump her on you but good she didn't stay were she wasn't wanted. If you live in a small village i'm sure you'll soon find out who it was anyway as someone will have seen who put it there or know something (if it's anything like the village i live in lol )
When i was a girl people would always bring injured wild animals to my mum for some reason. We had all kinds of animals in the house at different times when i was growing up and my favoutite was an injured baby crow which became very tame and lived down at the stables for quite a long time before it went off to live it's adult life.

She's better off with you :)
 
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