Looking to the past...What aspect of guinea ownership/care makes you cringe now?
I once took a little Peruvian type baby from a colleague at work, must be twenty years ago. I was told it was a male and didn't doubt them. The poor little soul lived apart form my two girls for almost a year before I realised you could neuter guinea pigs :
Booked him in, only to receive a call an hour hour or so later, yeah you guessed...."Can you come and collect your sow!"
What an idiot I'd been >
Fluffy was of course introduced to the girls who welcomed her with open arms
The first time I gave George an oil soak I only done him and not Mildred. When I put him back in the cage, Mildred wouldn't go near him because he didn't smell like her George any more and sat as far away from him as possible. They were both so miserable it broke my heart. That was certainly a lesson learnt. Now if one gets something so does the other
I can think of something even more embarrasiing thing I did :
We took a small group of Lilac guinea pigs from a breeder who was giving up breeding. The boar was separate from the sows, but had obviously been in with them as there were babies and one was pregnant.
Anyway two sows stayed together, one littered and had 3 Lilac babies without problem. However the other sow wasn't keen on having young ones near her and was getting quite agitated and nippy with them...so I decided to try her with a neutered boar.
An hour later I went upstairs to check on mum and babes and discovered babies huddled in one corner and mum in the other, all looking miserable. Yep...The Lilacs were so similar, I'd taken mum out by mistake :o
Thankfully she went back in without a problem, much to the glee of her babies
Probably when I was about 4 yrs old. We lived in a small village where nobody locked their house - kids played happily on the street etc etc (parents nowhere to be seen...!) well mine weren't when my neighbour friend Lee & I decided that Suki needed a bath. We filled my bath tub with about 2 inches of water. Thank God mum had just had a bath & there was little hot water left just luke warm. Well to cut a long story short mum caught us making bath time more exciting for Suki by creating waves like the swimming pool we went to :-[ she lived a further 2 years.
I learned everything the hard way with Bil.
I let his teeth get too long. I didnt monitor his weight etc. He was a resilient little so and so though and always bounced back from all of his vets trips.
By far the worst for me was forgetting he was in my bed (his favourite place to snuggle) and sitting down to put my socks on :'(
I sat right on him with my big size 16 bottom
He was ok thank goodness.
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