I Am So Ashamed Of Myself

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Pat Shields

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I gave Salvatore a bath tonight; he got to run loose in the garage today and he was itchy when I put him back in his clean cage. I wrapped him in a towel and held him to my chest while I dried him, and he bit me in the breast. That hurt, and it still hurts. My reaction is what I am ashamed of; he bit me and I smacked him on top of his head. Not hard, and I don't think he even noticed with all the rubbing that was going on, but still. He didn't know any better and he never will, and I have no business reacting like that.
He is such a tractable little guinea pig. He holds his mouth open while I clean his bottom teeth (they always get hair stuck in them). He doesn't have a mean bone in his body and would never attack me; he was just reacting to the rubbing.
 
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madguinealady said:
Don't beat yourself up about it.We all have our bad days,you got a shock,sure he didn't bother about it, they do worse to each other
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I once turned round to a pig that nibbled my ear too hard and loudly said "ouch that hurt". It was only afterwards that I realized it must have sounded painfully loud in his ear.
 
It's always a shock if a pig bites hard. Naturally, when we're hurt we can lash out. Don't beat yourself up about it.
 
My late Suzie often bit me quite hard and I would tap her on the nose. She would just bite me again!
 
Aw don't beat yourself up about it. While nobody would condone animal abuse he probably didnt know that you had tapped him, much more likely he thought that he had bumped his nose on the hutch and wont hate you forever :)
 
Thank you for all the reassurances that I am not the worst person. I feel a bit less guilty after a good night's sleep, but I still am asking myself how I managed to lose control. I suppose it is as Gizi said, "It happens if you get a shock". It's just that I'm the kind of person who doesn't even want to hurt a spider and I try to relocate them rather than swat them. (If you are a tick or a mosquito, you are gonna die.)
 
Don't worry! He understands what he did! Sometimes you have to teach them what's not right. Hopefully he won't do it again:tu:
 
Oh Pat, you had a shock and reacted before you had chance to think. Please dont beat yourself up. Just put it behind you, you wont do it again.

@PumpkinButt guineapigs dont have the reasoning power of humans and cant connect events in that way so its entirely pointless to punish them for their actions. He wont be able to link the event of him biting with being smacked. Theres even some debate as to whether dogs understand that kind of punishment (my dog trainer says not)
 
Goth Mummy said:
Oh Pat, you had a shock and reacted before you had chance to think. Please dont beat yourself up. Just put it behind you, you wont do it again.

@PumpkinButt guineapigs dont have the reasoning power of humans and cant connect events in that way so its entirely pointless to punish them for their actions. He wont be able to link the event of him biting with being smacked. Theres even some debate as to whether dogs understand that kind of punishment (my dog trainer says not)
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We'll I don't know what problems you guys have but, My Little Pumpkin is perfect. She's potty trained and doesn't bite so I guess I'm just lucky?:D
 
I have also been on the receiving end of a nip in the boob, couldn't be a worse place to bite! I did yelp and that gave poor Walter a fright. I spent the rest of the evening whispering my apologies for scaring him.
 
My horse once bit me on the boob. I still have the scars! it was 20 years ago too :(
 
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