After a week of extreme sadness we are slowly coming round to the fact that millie moo is no longer with us. The first few days were dreadful, taking her to the pet crematorium, crying at the slightest thought and seeing her sister, aerie faerie, just sitting in the back of the cage picking at her food and not moving or speaking.
We have been giving her constant attention (my son was off school for exams this week thankfully), moved the cage into my bedroom so that she can see and hear me and tried out some hints from you guys here ie put a mirror and a wee cuddly toy in the cage and also stuffed a toilet roll core with hay, spinach and leaves.
By Tuesday she was starting to come out and actually ate a wee bit celery, on wednesday we took her out for loads of cuddles and hand feeding and then I left her on the bed while I cleaned out the cage. She and Moo normally sat completely still and didn't move when they were out of the cage at any time so I was flabbergasted when she ventured out from her blanket and on to my bed for a wee nosey! She would walked out a few steps then run back to the blanket and looked like she was having fun
Later that night I was ecstatic to see her throwing the wee teddy around the cage. Since then she has been coming out to see me when I call her and is having a mad time wrestling with the hay tube. We are still not getting any noise from her but in every other way she has come back alive, and more so as she is even coming out of her house when I am on poo patrol to have a look and sniff at the nappy bag wrapped round my hand. She has never done that before?!
Is it unusual for bereaved guinea pigs to become more extrovert after they have lost a partner? She did sometimes get fed up with wee moo being her shadow to the point of nipping her ears on occasion! I am even more undecided now about trying to find a 'dating' service for her. She is 5.5 yrs old. Any advice gratefully received.
We have been giving her constant attention (my son was off school for exams this week thankfully), moved the cage into my bedroom so that she can see and hear me and tried out some hints from you guys here ie put a mirror and a wee cuddly toy in the cage and also stuffed a toilet roll core with hay, spinach and leaves.
By Tuesday she was starting to come out and actually ate a wee bit celery, on wednesday we took her out for loads of cuddles and hand feeding and then I left her on the bed while I cleaned out the cage. She and Moo normally sat completely still and didn't move when they were out of the cage at any time so I was flabbergasted when she ventured out from her blanket and on to my bed for a wee nosey! She would walked out a few steps then run back to the blanket and looked like she was having fun
Later that night I was ecstatic to see her throwing the wee teddy around the cage. Since then she has been coming out to see me when I call her and is having a mad time wrestling with the hay tube. We are still not getting any noise from her but in every other way she has come back alive, and more so as she is even coming out of her house when I am on poo patrol to have a look and sniff at the nappy bag wrapped round my hand. She has never done that before?!
Is it unusual for bereaved guinea pigs to become more extrovert after they have lost a partner? She did sometimes get fed up with wee moo being her shadow to the point of nipping her ears on occasion! I am even more undecided now about trying to find a 'dating' service for her. She is 5.5 yrs old. Any advice gratefully received.
When Cookie lost her sister Treacy Bum earlier this year we bonded her with 2 other piggies into a trio so when we unfortunately lose one of the trio we wont have to rush out and bond as we did with Cookie as she was very down after the loss of her sister.