I have a confession

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I havent spent along time with my piggies. last time i seen them was 3 days ago.  :-\
I dont actually know what happened, but i've been so busy getting my life together they sorta fell out of my circle.
I know it sounds bad. They had no food and water or hay so i topped them up tonight. they desperately need cleaning and
a bath.  :( i feel like such a bad piggy mum. georgy has a skin infection under his mouth and again has lost weight. (and will be having a vet trip if not cleared up)
he is always losing weight and gaining it, then losing then gaining. its strange. Patch seems to have a bald patch by her vagina. 
Anyone know what this is?
I've seperated georgy incase hes been fighting with the girls and thats a result of the cut and dried skin.
They all have lots of carrots. And I'm cleaning them out tomorrow. And hopefully bath them if i have time before my friend is over.
I cant wait until SAT's are over and my life settles down abit. Then everything will balance out again.
Please dont think any less of me as a piggy mum.
 
Oh dear, time does get away sometimes Nat.... perhaps try to put a little time aside each day for them and it will be good for you too. Just imagine all those piggie kisses and cuddles you'll get and that will prompt you.
Can't help you with Patches problem i hope the vet can sort all this out for you :(
You'll need to get Georgy to the vets too with a nasty mouth infection they can be difficult to get rid of quickly, aww poor little man loosing weight :( Can you give him a few syringe feeds a day to boost him up a bit :)
Take care love, i think you're brave to have admitted that you weren't quite being your usual piggie mum self.
 
Glynis said:
  Can you give him a few syringe feeds a day to boost him up a bit  :)
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Good suggestion Glynis,  :) but if she can't be bothered to even walk into the garage at all in 3 days to give them any food or water then do you really think she will take the time and effort to prepare the feed and sit there syringing it?  >:(
 
bev said:
Glynis said:
weight :( Can you give him a few syringe feeds a day to boost him up a bit :)
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Good suggestion Glynis, :) but if she can't be bothered to even walk into the garage at all in 3 days to give them any food or water then do you really think she will take the time and effort to prepare the feed and sit there syringing it? >:(
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and it takes forever to sit there and syringe :(
 
I wasn't going to say anything because I am actually really angry, but for the past three days you have posted on the forum. The GUINEA PIG forum - surely that is a reminder in itself?

To make matters worse, you are planning to bath IF you got time before your friend comes.

PRIORITORISE! Friend to either help you bath them, or tell your friend not to come over.

Plain and simple. Sorry to be blunt, but right now I think you need it. Yes you're having a bad time, but so are other people.
 
Well sorry Nat but you should be ashamedof yourself 3 days without checking you piggys, I'm a mom of 2 kids and goes to work comes home and starts housework etc and yet i can manage i love looking after my piggys they may not be my top priority as that goes to my children but a five mins check wouldnt go a miss, feeders filled hay down done they get a quick stroke and thats on a busy day


You have to prioritise if you cant do that then maybe you shouldnt have them in the first place, I'm going now before i say anything else
 
I couldnt agree more,if you cant afford the time to check on them and feed them etc, then maybe you shouldnt have them,
expecting someone else to do it is wrong
 
i have put georgy in a cage on his own with louds of hay and water and food.
I knew i was being bad but i sorta got pulled to other things.
I gonna go clean them out now.
 
Sorry you didn't check on them FOR 3 days? :o Poor piggies :'( And you can bath your piggie whilst you friend is there (my poor friends had to put up with me tending to my piggies as they are important but they didn't mind I don't think).

I've had some pretty carp times lately but funnily enough the piggies ALWAYS (so did the rabbits) came first - they never went without and never ever will after all you make a committment in taking on animals and they owe it to you to look and care for them.

If you seriously DO NOT have time you should look about rehoming them as I can understand that school work is HARD work but your piggies are RELYING on you to look after them - they can't feed themselves etc.

Just my opinion.
 
I have a list on the fridge with their weights. I try to weigh them every time I clean the cage, so I can always check when the cage approx. should be done again. And it reminds me about the piggies every time I walk to the fridge, which is often :embarassed:

Maybe that would help you to keep track of it all?

Three days is a long time not to have a look at your piggies... alot of things could have happened in three days... :(
 
Agree with everyone. Natalieee we aren't having a go, O.K. we are but not nastily. 3 days, How could you not attend to them in three days poor guineas. I would seriously think about rehoming them, like Abnoba said a lot of things could have happened and you are lucky that they are in the state they are in, they could be in a lot worst. Other people on the forum have course work too and many have other stuff to deal with but we all attend to our guineas. I will hold my hands up sometimes, not very often and half the time it can't be helped, I don't clean the guineas out on the day the need it (they WILL be done the next day) but I attend to them everyday and they at least get bare necessaries. I'm sorry but I do think less of you as a piggy mum. I think you better find a way of making it to your little friends, getting them down the vets would be a good start. :-\
 
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I wasn't going to say anything because I am actually really angry, but for the past three days you have posted on the forum. The GUINEA PIG forum - surely that is a reminder in itself?
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I have to agree with Kelly!

The time you were on here doing nothing but reading posts and replying, you could have been out with your guineas!

Even if i'm working at the other end of Nottingham doing a pet sit, I will still find the time to come home and sort my lot out before i go and do another one.

We all have bad times, it's part of life and to be honest my animals get me through it. If i'm feeling down or sad i go out to see them and they make me feel better, purely because i tell my animals things that i can't tell anyone else and they don't judge you, they love you for who you are and you should be ashamed of yourself for not seeing them for 3 days!

You are extremely lucky that you didn't go out to find dead guinea pigs. 3 days without food or water! Try that yourself and see how you feel afterwards! >:(
 
Jeez, I left my guineapigs for a whole day, then when I checked them at night they'd tipped their wood tunnels upside down, gotten hay stuck in their bums, messy fur, no water and nothing in the food bowl except seeds. How are they still alive? You must have some realy hardy & well behaved pigs.
 
it was huge mistake, and i cant believe how stupid i was. i have 2 bottles and 2 food bowls. and 2 louds of hay, so they take ages to run out.
 
I just don't know how you could forget about them for THREE days. What is done is done now but you are going have to think really hard about if you can do everything you need and want to do and care for your guineas. I think you are aware of your mistake just promise this will not happen again, not even for one day. Well done for being honest though and I hope you do well in your SATs. :)
 
i dont think many people will admit this kind of thing, but something inside my head tells me i have to tell you.
i guess i feel comfortalbe with the forum, and i promise i wont do it again.
both of them are cleaned out now. and georgy is up to no good with the girls.
no changes there.
 
;D That's good then, it's nice that you feel you can admit stuff to us but your not going to admit stuff like this in the future are you. ;) There has always got to be a but. ;D Best wishes to you and your guineas. :)
 
Natalie, when I was your age I had hamsters and I neglected them because I was busy with other things. Thankfully my mum made sure they were ok. Still, as soon as I realised I wasn't looking after them I got them rehomed. If you have too much going on with your life to look after your animals it isn't fair to keep them. Let them go to someone who does have the time to look after them. I cannot stress this strongly enough. I STILL have nightmares about how I neglected my hamsters even though I knew they were being fed and watered by my mum.

I'm a lot older now and I know that no matter what else goes on in my life the animals have to be looked after. This past month I have been lost in a haze of grief after losing my mum suddenly. Even in that time when i was unable to work or look after myself I still looked after the animals because they cannot help themselves.

My first reaction was complete anger at your confession but then I remembered what I was like at your age and remembered how easy it is to be so self obsessed you forget about everything else.

Please please rehome your piggies until you are able to look after them responsibly.
 
Natalie, I'm glad you could admit it and everything but while you were posting on a piggy forum didn't it occur to you that they needed feeding etc? I thought your piggies were in your bedroom, how could you not have noticed? No one it trying to have a go at you, we're just concerned for your piggies. I have been feeling crap lately with my cold and everything, but managed to drag mysef out of bed because I know they needed feeding and I wanted to redo their cage etc. ;)

I just got one thing to say though- please don't let this happen again Nat - even if you don't have time to give them attention it doesn't take much to to feed/water though does it?

If you don't have time to care for them in the future please consider rehoming them..I'm not saying you have to, but please don't make your pigs go hungry, without water etc again.
 
I'm speechless... :(

Mine get fed 4 times a day on this and that ALWAYS have hay and water and when I'm typing on here i have at least one piggy in a pouch on my knee, you were on the guinea pig forum giving advice while your own piggies were starving :o....it takes less than a minute to feed them, they could have died...i just....pah i dont even know what to say...
 
This is why my piggy lives in my bedroom. If she feels left out she will demand otherwise :P
 
If it happens again. (which i make sure it wont.) Then i will consider rehoming them.
But it shouldnt happen again, cause you guyz and my dad have gave me a wake up call.
For a year now the piggies have bin my life, and i so ashamed i made a slip up.
Thanks for the....well i guess its help lol. ;D
 
You are indeed brave to come on here and confess that your poor piggies have been so unloved and unwanted and uncared for for three whole days >:( Especially when I read that during that time you were on this forum! Unbelievable.

I have 2 kids, work (from home) while they are at school, take kids to afterschool activities, do housework, get dinner, work again in the evenings . . . . (like everyone else, dead busy) BUT I would no more forget to feed my guineas than I would forget to feed me and the family. My piggies get fed regularly twice a day plus lots of healthy treats in between, go out in the run if suitable weather, brought in for cuddles etc, cleaned out, ALWAYS have hay, water and food bowl topped up. I always put their safety board on, check everything, say goodnight to them all, before my clients arrive in the evening.

I don't understand how you could "forget" them.

However, this has no doubt taught you a lesson, you feel bad and that's going to help you remember not to let it happen again. Please re-home them if you have doubts about your interest in them. Life is a learning curve and I like to think you've learnt from this. Hope the guineas are OK. :)
 
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