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lol my turn now to freak out a bit, hope it's ok?
Today we bought a friend for John Anderson. I know it would've been nicer to get a rescue but I just couldn't do the drive to Perth. I feel so bad but just have to think I rescued him from the petshop instead.
We looked in 3 different petshops and I just have this feeling we've kinda done the wrong thing, although not that I don't want our new piggie.
His name is Bob and he is short haired, 3 colours (black,ginger and white) doesn't look too dissimilar to our hamster in colouring. He has dark brown eyes and one paw is black with black nails, the other paws are white with clear nails, and he is very very cute.
He was in, for want of a better description, a cupboard with glass sliding doors with 4 other piggies. The 'cage' wasn't even as big as half the size of John Anderson's cage
We had originally picked out another piggie (possibly his brother cause had the same colours as him, the other 2 were different) but he had some discharge coming out his nose. The shop assistant was like oh it looks like milk (not sure why a 8 week old piggy would be having milk mind you unless ill) and said it wasn't there this morning. Bob appears to be healthy.
I just have this nagging feeling that our piggie could have something wrong with him too, I hope not and at least we now know the vets with having been with John Anderson. One of the first things we had to do when we got him home was cut his nails, they were really long, a couple starting to curl. But I know that even if he does some ahve soemthing wrong with him we'll take very good care fo him.
The shop assistant was very much no you should be buying 2 piggies, not just 1 and it won't get on with your piggie. At one point I thought she wasn't going to let us buy him, she was REALLY going on about it. So I feel a bit narked cause I've spent ages looking into how to bond males, learning about side by side etc etc. They suggested neutering John Anderson and while I know lots of people do it and are ok, I just can't bring myself to do that to John Anderson. I know that we can have them side by side if they don't get on and they will both be happy piggies. And that's considering we haven't even tried them together yet. And it's kinda tainted our bringing home a new piggie event a bit for me.
One of the other pet shops had 1 guinea pig, it looked all sad and lonely snuggled under a log bridge and I'm now thinking oh maybe we should've bought it (not that we knew if it was a boy or a girl, it looked like a mini version of John Anderson and my hubby said we'd be best to get one that looked different for a bit of variety LOL) and I know I can't have them all... (I've said to hubby that if we win the lottery tonight can we get a house with loads of room for lots of piggies
Anyways, back to Bob. I have him in the hutch with lots of hay and a fleecey blanket to keep him warm. He is TINY! compared to John Anderson. They said in the shop he is 8 weeks old so, with keeping them apart, he should be 10-11 weeks old when we introduce hiim to John Anderson (although I'm sure they will smell each other before then cause I'm cuddling them both seperately)
Have had some cuddle time with him already.
In the petshop he had hay and dried food but no fresh veggies...so I'm wondering if he even knows what veggies are. How do I go about introducing them to him? Do I take it slowly maybe one bit a day or just put in as I would for John Anderson and leave him to have a wee nibble here and there?
They obviously were giving vit C drops in the water, should I get some just so it's something he's used to (although I do think he should be getting his vit C from fresh food not artificial stuff)
I just want to enjoy having him but I just feel outa sorts after what happened in the petshop
Today we bought a friend for John Anderson. I know it would've been nicer to get a rescue but I just couldn't do the drive to Perth. I feel so bad but just have to think I rescued him from the petshop instead.
We looked in 3 different petshops and I just have this feeling we've kinda done the wrong thing, although not that I don't want our new piggie.
His name is Bob and he is short haired, 3 colours (black,ginger and white) doesn't look too dissimilar to our hamster in colouring. He has dark brown eyes and one paw is black with black nails, the other paws are white with clear nails, and he is very very cute.
He was in, for want of a better description, a cupboard with glass sliding doors with 4 other piggies. The 'cage' wasn't even as big as half the size of John Anderson's cage
We had originally picked out another piggie (possibly his brother cause had the same colours as him, the other 2 were different) but he had some discharge coming out his nose. The shop assistant was like oh it looks like milk (not sure why a 8 week old piggy would be having milk mind you unless ill) and said it wasn't there this morning. Bob appears to be healthy. I just have this nagging feeling that our piggie could have something wrong with him too, I hope not and at least we now know the vets with having been with John Anderson. One of the first things we had to do when we got him home was cut his nails, they were really long, a couple starting to curl. But I know that even if he does some ahve soemthing wrong with him we'll take very good care fo him.
The shop assistant was very much no you should be buying 2 piggies, not just 1 and it won't get on with your piggie. At one point I thought she wasn't going to let us buy him, she was REALLY going on about it. So I feel a bit narked cause I've spent ages looking into how to bond males, learning about side by side etc etc. They suggested neutering John Anderson and while I know lots of people do it and are ok, I just can't bring myself to do that to John Anderson. I know that we can have them side by side if they don't get on and they will both be happy piggies. And that's considering we haven't even tried them together yet. And it's kinda tainted our bringing home a new piggie event a bit for me.
One of the other pet shops had 1 guinea pig, it looked all sad and lonely snuggled under a log bridge and I'm now thinking oh maybe we should've bought it (not that we knew if it was a boy or a girl, it looked like a mini version of John Anderson and my hubby said we'd be best to get one that looked different for a bit of variety LOL) and I know I can't have them all... (I've said to hubby that if we win the lottery tonight can we get a house with loads of room for lots of piggies
Anyways, back to Bob. I have him in the hutch with lots of hay and a fleecey blanket to keep him warm. He is TINY! compared to John Anderson. They said in the shop he is 8 weeks old so, with keeping them apart, he should be 10-11 weeks old when we introduce hiim to John Anderson (although I'm sure they will smell each other before then cause I'm cuddling them both seperately)
Have had some cuddle time with him already.
In the petshop he had hay and dried food but no fresh veggies...so I'm wondering if he even knows what veggies are. How do I go about introducing them to him? Do I take it slowly maybe one bit a day or just put in as I would for John Anderson and leave him to have a wee nibble here and there?
They obviously were giving vit C drops in the water, should I get some just so it's something he's used to (although I do think he should be getting his vit C from fresh food not artificial stuff)
I just want to enjoy having him but I just feel outa sorts after what happened in the petshop
