Kerrie74
Adult Guinea Pig
Hello,
as some of you will know we had to have Sheamus pts because he had bladder stones and his health had gotten worse (still angry at the vets that were meant to look after him), we're now left with a single boar called Big E. He seem's ok, he's eating, he was doing laps around his cage this morning, luckily I haven't washed the beds yet so he will still smell Sheamus (was reading @Wiebke post about grieving), we've also been handling him more which oddly enough he seems to be enjoying (very odd for Big E lol).
@Wiebke suggested moving his cage next to the girls but I'm not sure if there's enough room in my bedroom, I even went in with a tape measure earlier. I would prefer he stayed in a 2 x 5 cage with him doing laps.
I really don't want to adopt another guinea to be honest, this is our second guinea that has had to be put to sleep since February but I know that we need to do what's right by Big E.
The problem I'm having is, I checked your locator for rescues that do dating the problem is yet again they are miles away from us, same as the vets that know about guinea's.
What I want to ask is... if can make the room for Big E's cage and we can put him down next to the girls would we still need to adopt a mate for him?
I feel totally gutted after losing Sheamus, he was a massive part of our lives, we got him with Big E and had them for over a year now, as I said above, I am really not happy with any of the vets that saw him, the last one even tried to say that even if he did get through it all he could get stones back... I told her had been reading on ways to prevent them. In my opinion my son should have been taken seriously about Sheamus' weight loss from the start and the PDSA bet should have booked him in for surgery asap rather than waiting almost a week... yet another one of our guinea pigs let down by vets.. Sorry about the rant but it really had put me off having any more guinea pigs.
Thanks in advance
Kerrie
as some of you will know we had to have Sheamus pts because he had bladder stones and his health had gotten worse (still angry at the vets that were meant to look after him), we're now left with a single boar called Big E. He seem's ok, he's eating, he was doing laps around his cage this morning, luckily I haven't washed the beds yet so he will still smell Sheamus (was reading @Wiebke post about grieving), we've also been handling him more which oddly enough he seems to be enjoying (very odd for Big E lol).
@Wiebke suggested moving his cage next to the girls but I'm not sure if there's enough room in my bedroom, I even went in with a tape measure earlier. I would prefer he stayed in a 2 x 5 cage with him doing laps.
I really don't want to adopt another guinea to be honest, this is our second guinea that has had to be put to sleep since February but I know that we need to do what's right by Big E.
The problem I'm having is, I checked your locator for rescues that do dating the problem is yet again they are miles away from us, same as the vets that know about guinea's.
What I want to ask is... if can make the room for Big E's cage and we can put him down next to the girls would we still need to adopt a mate for him?
I feel totally gutted after losing Sheamus, he was a massive part of our lives, we got him with Big E and had them for over a year now, as I said above, I am really not happy with any of the vets that saw him, the last one even tried to say that even if he did get through it all he could get stones back... I told her had been reading on ways to prevent them. In my opinion my son should have been taken seriously about Sheamus' weight loss from the start and the PDSA bet should have booked him in for surgery asap rather than waiting almost a week... yet another one of our guinea pigs let down by vets.. Sorry about the rant but it really had put me off having any more guinea pigs.
Thanks in advance
Kerrie
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