Lady Kelly
Senior Guinea Pig
So last night while sorting the piggies out with their veg, pellets and hay we had a massive and very unexpected breakthrough.
When I'm putting the pellets in daisy will come running over and take them out my fingers, sometimes Donald does too. However this time I offered one to Donald and Lily wondered up to me and pulled it from my fingers!
For those that don't know, Lily was a pets at home adoption centre piggy. She had been purchased from p@h at 6 weeks, placed in a hutch with a ramp, fell off and broke her leg and was returned to the shop as "faulty goods". The store is busy so she had only been handled to Medicare and when I adopted her at 15 weeks (nearly 2 years ago) she screamed the shop down at being handled. She is still a terrified piggy and the closest we've come is eating larger pieces of veg from our hands so this was completely out the blue.
While talking away I had to keep telling myself "don't react Kelly", "don't freak out", "let her feel it's normal"
So please, if you have a scared piggy, persevere and you will get there eventually
When I'm putting the pellets in daisy will come running over and take them out my fingers, sometimes Donald does too. However this time I offered one to Donald and Lily wondered up to me and pulled it from my fingers!
For those that don't know, Lily was a pets at home adoption centre piggy. She had been purchased from p@h at 6 weeks, placed in a hutch with a ramp, fell off and broke her leg and was returned to the shop as "faulty goods". The store is busy so she had only been handled to Medicare and when I adopted her at 15 weeks (nearly 2 years ago) she screamed the shop down at being handled. She is still a terrified piggy and the closest we've come is eating larger pieces of veg from our hands so this was completely out the blue.
While talking away I had to keep telling myself "don't react Kelly", "don't freak out", "let her feel it's normal"
So please, if you have a scared piggy, persevere and you will get there eventually
