Nanny_Pig
New Born Pup
It's so sad and the worst first post ever imaginable, I guess i'm hurting so much i need to get the story of my grand pigs out, maybe it will help with the healing process, maybe not!
I'll start from the beginning, After visiting my sister and holding her guineas my daughter fell in love and had been asking for one of her own since. So once i decided I'd decided the time was right i started looking to rehome one, when i found and advert and enquired we went that evening (21/6/11) to collect him. When we arrived at the house there was a big dog barking in another room and the boyfriend of the owner said he was about two, very friendly and that he was dealing with me as his girlfriend was too upset as they were only giving him away because of the dog. He was a cute, i believe Abyssinian white boar with the biggest black eyes I've ever seen. I asked what his name was and he said 'Moonie' i thought it was a great name as he did indeed look like the moon. We took him home in his little cage and were in love instantly. Once i realised his cage had a massive break in the corner i realised he must of been pulled/knocked off the table by the big dog. So i began researching C&C cages and built him a huge one (dubbed Moonie Mansion).
Then on 7/1/12 we drove miles to collect another boar this time it was a baby and initially i was a little disappointed that it was another white one, until i saw him ofc. There he was a smooth coated white albino, instantly we fell in love with the poor little fellow, who as a little baby was all alone in a tiny pet carrier in a feed shed on a horse yard, it was freezing cold and he had a gooey eye, we were so worried he would die looking so small and still. We named him Sunny and over the next few days he perked right up, it took him a while to get used us and to living in a massive C&C cage. Then as he grew he'd get excited and run up and down and round and round the cage, such fun to watch. He grew so big much bigger than Moonie and full of character. They would squabble sometimes, but never fought. And loved grazing in the garden together. Sunny more so fast and active and dexterous, he even liked his chin stroked and would gently nibble and lick your finger, Moonie on the other hand as loveable as he is, he didn't like chin strokes and would rather bite your finger if you put it near his mouth. But he was more of the tame one, he'd come to me when i called him in the garden, he'd come over and investigate if i was sunbathing or eating, off Sunny would follow if there was food involved.
I've been so proud to say that every day i would put them outside to roam as they liked, then bring them in at bed time (as long as it wasn't pouring with rain or freezing cold) on days they didn't go out i'd fetch the scissors and cut them a heap of grass) Although i have an elderly cat and a Jack Russell and often my mum would bring his daughter over and they'd killed rats before, i taught them to leave them and accept them as family and they ignore them.
Last june me and my kids and pets moved into a rented house with my boyfriend his daughter their 2 labradors and 5 rats(long story with my B/Fs 2 daughters getting boys and girl rats each and hey presto 4 became 12, then the girls split the sexes and one kept the girls the other the boys,(who lives with us) Anyway, the labradors were curious at first but mature and understood just once that 'leave it' was enough, intact the labradors are quite scared of the piggies and rats and run away if they go near them!
Well we moved into our own house last christmas (dec 12), and our family of harmonious pets was perfect, every day my partner takes all the dogs jogging before he goes to work, once everyones gone to work and school, i have a shower eat breakfast and i get my little garndpigs and put them outside. (due to our family being bigger and the house smaller we had to stop using the C&C cage (so used the grids as a fence for piggies in garden) we bought Moonie and sunny a two tear 120cm long cage for my daughters birthday this august, and gave my partners eldest daughter the 3 tier 100cm they'd had since last year, as it was just too tall to clean out and the piggies never went up the top much.
Our little sunny boy was always sticking his nose under the grids and butting them up and escaping, i'd find him hiding under the chopped wood for the chiminea amongst the spider webs to my dismay. it was his little quirk my grand piggie Houdini. Moonie rarely bothered getting out unless it was to follow sunny for the thrill. as he kept escaping i got worried he'd get hurt so fenced of a little area buy the washing line so they'd have a patch about 10ft sq to graze, i didn't cut the grass there so they'd have lots of long grass. Sunny hadn't escaped for quite a while and no more trying to coax him out at night with carrots and lettuce. (i'm so sorry if this is long but its how it comes into my head)
Recently we would joke about our dogs (the labradors) we had a black one and a yellow one, we would say how getting a chocolate one would complete the set. Jokes turned into reality and we decided to rehome one in need as it would be more rewarding than buying one from a breeder. Last saturday (15/9) we were beaming as we were going to collect a chocolate labrador it was a 8 hour drive there and back, the lab is nearly 2 excitable and quite boisterous but he does listen to commands. i dont think he can quite believe from being an sonly dog who is stuck indoors most of the time with no company, to a lively home with other dogs and lots of attention and walks.
My daughter started senior school this term and as a result i'm still trying to get her to realise getting ready for school is the priority or she'll miss the bus, but on monday she can downstairs with Moonie & Sunny in their basket to put them out before school, i told her to leave them and that ill put them out because she had to leave for the bus.
(this is where is gets darker and i'm welling up now)
She left for school and i put Moonie & Sunny out to graze, AS me and my partner ate breakfast the new dog went out to look and we told him to leave it and to come away, and he did, and just carried on playing with his rope in the garden, he came in and went back out a few times ignoring the piggies as they ate grass behind there C&C grid wall. After breakfast my partner when up for his shower and i made us a coffee as i always do, i called the dogs and they went up the stairs before me including the new one, who has followed us since he came home and never leaves us. I put down the coffee and my partner called to me, i pooped my head into the bathroom as he was reminding me to call the vet to make a date to get the new dog castrated. i turned around and notice him gone, i called him as it wasn't like him, and he didn't come, i called again because he normally scoots to your side, it was early quite and something in my bones panicked me i run down the stairs calling him constantly.
I run outside and all i could hear was my sunny boy squeezing and making vibrating noises, the dog was in the grazing area with sunny he picked him up, and i screamed at him to drop him, and he did instantly and i picked him up but Sunny had stopped moving and was floppy, I screamed the street down with my cries, and screamed at the dog to get in the living room and closed the door, i rushed to my daughters room and lay him on the bed, i tried mouth to mouth and blew air into him thinking that surely its just shock and that i can bring him back, i tired pressing on his chest as if beats then blowing more air into him, i was shaking like a leaf and crying and calling his name, but i wasn't sure about guinea pig resus and thought i could be causing more damage to him and his little body so i stopped. I had to let him go because i didn't know what to do. i cradled him in my arms and went out to get moonie(i knew he was ok when i picked up sunny from the dog because he was hiding in there tunnel)
i bought moonie up and placed them both on the bed, moonie just stood there as i sobbed over sunny stroking him for 15 minutes hoping he'd wake up, but of course he didn't and i put them both in the cage incase moonie needed to realised what had happened. i was beside myself and in pieces i was hoping that i'd go in later to find him awake once again 10 minutes later he was still dead. not a drop of blood just lifeless, i decided to wrap him in a pillow case like a baby on his side and but him in one of the little cage toilets, it would always make me laugh when i'd go in in the morning to wake my daughter and see him stretched out asleep in one. i put him in it and then put him in her bathroom, so she could see him one last time. My partner stayed at home with me and didn't go to work because i couldn't stop crying, he held me for hours as i sobbed.
i couldn't eat or drink and just felt sick, the thought of what had happened and having to act like everything was fine when she came home because she had not done some homework, i had planned that i would have her work ready when she came in so we could quickly get it over with then i would tell her. How heartless i felt that i was going to do that, but my daughters had a lot of problems at school and i didn't wan't her work to suffer (plus i doubt a teacher would ever think the death of a pet is a good enough excuse to not do your homework), i knew it was going to break her heart too, and just counting down the time to home time killed me. i fell asleep crying in bed in the afternoon( i felt so cold and depressed) and woke up in time to have a shower and get dressed. then all i had to do was wait, i checked on sunny boy and he'd started to go stiff and his beautiful red eyes had turned more grey. i tired to close them but they wouldn't close.
I'll start from the beginning, After visiting my sister and holding her guineas my daughter fell in love and had been asking for one of her own since. So once i decided I'd decided the time was right i started looking to rehome one, when i found and advert and enquired we went that evening (21/6/11) to collect him. When we arrived at the house there was a big dog barking in another room and the boyfriend of the owner said he was about two, very friendly and that he was dealing with me as his girlfriend was too upset as they were only giving him away because of the dog. He was a cute, i believe Abyssinian white boar with the biggest black eyes I've ever seen. I asked what his name was and he said 'Moonie' i thought it was a great name as he did indeed look like the moon. We took him home in his little cage and were in love instantly. Once i realised his cage had a massive break in the corner i realised he must of been pulled/knocked off the table by the big dog. So i began researching C&C cages and built him a huge one (dubbed Moonie Mansion).
Then on 7/1/12 we drove miles to collect another boar this time it was a baby and initially i was a little disappointed that it was another white one, until i saw him ofc. There he was a smooth coated white albino, instantly we fell in love with the poor little fellow, who as a little baby was all alone in a tiny pet carrier in a feed shed on a horse yard, it was freezing cold and he had a gooey eye, we were so worried he would die looking so small and still. We named him Sunny and over the next few days he perked right up, it took him a while to get used us and to living in a massive C&C cage. Then as he grew he'd get excited and run up and down and round and round the cage, such fun to watch. He grew so big much bigger than Moonie and full of character. They would squabble sometimes, but never fought. And loved grazing in the garden together. Sunny more so fast and active and dexterous, he even liked his chin stroked and would gently nibble and lick your finger, Moonie on the other hand as loveable as he is, he didn't like chin strokes and would rather bite your finger if you put it near his mouth. But he was more of the tame one, he'd come to me when i called him in the garden, he'd come over and investigate if i was sunbathing or eating, off Sunny would follow if there was food involved.
I've been so proud to say that every day i would put them outside to roam as they liked, then bring them in at bed time (as long as it wasn't pouring with rain or freezing cold) on days they didn't go out i'd fetch the scissors and cut them a heap of grass) Although i have an elderly cat and a Jack Russell and often my mum would bring his daughter over and they'd killed rats before, i taught them to leave them and accept them as family and they ignore them.
Last june me and my kids and pets moved into a rented house with my boyfriend his daughter their 2 labradors and 5 rats(long story with my B/Fs 2 daughters getting boys and girl rats each and hey presto 4 became 12, then the girls split the sexes and one kept the girls the other the boys,(who lives with us) Anyway, the labradors were curious at first but mature and understood just once that 'leave it' was enough, intact the labradors are quite scared of the piggies and rats and run away if they go near them!
Well we moved into our own house last christmas (dec 12), and our family of harmonious pets was perfect, every day my partner takes all the dogs jogging before he goes to work, once everyones gone to work and school, i have a shower eat breakfast and i get my little garndpigs and put them outside. (due to our family being bigger and the house smaller we had to stop using the C&C cage (so used the grids as a fence for piggies in garden) we bought Moonie and sunny a two tear 120cm long cage for my daughters birthday this august, and gave my partners eldest daughter the 3 tier 100cm they'd had since last year, as it was just too tall to clean out and the piggies never went up the top much.
Our little sunny boy was always sticking his nose under the grids and butting them up and escaping, i'd find him hiding under the chopped wood for the chiminea amongst the spider webs to my dismay. it was his little quirk my grand piggie Houdini. Moonie rarely bothered getting out unless it was to follow sunny for the thrill. as he kept escaping i got worried he'd get hurt so fenced of a little area buy the washing line so they'd have a patch about 10ft sq to graze, i didn't cut the grass there so they'd have lots of long grass. Sunny hadn't escaped for quite a while and no more trying to coax him out at night with carrots and lettuce. (i'm so sorry if this is long but its how it comes into my head)
Recently we would joke about our dogs (the labradors) we had a black one and a yellow one, we would say how getting a chocolate one would complete the set. Jokes turned into reality and we decided to rehome one in need as it would be more rewarding than buying one from a breeder. Last saturday (15/9) we were beaming as we were going to collect a chocolate labrador it was a 8 hour drive there and back, the lab is nearly 2 excitable and quite boisterous but he does listen to commands. i dont think he can quite believe from being an sonly dog who is stuck indoors most of the time with no company, to a lively home with other dogs and lots of attention and walks.
My daughter started senior school this term and as a result i'm still trying to get her to realise getting ready for school is the priority or she'll miss the bus, but on monday she can downstairs with Moonie & Sunny in their basket to put them out before school, i told her to leave them and that ill put them out because she had to leave for the bus.
(this is where is gets darker and i'm welling up now)
She left for school and i put Moonie & Sunny out to graze, AS me and my partner ate breakfast the new dog went out to look and we told him to leave it and to come away, and he did, and just carried on playing with his rope in the garden, he came in and went back out a few times ignoring the piggies as they ate grass behind there C&C grid wall. After breakfast my partner when up for his shower and i made us a coffee as i always do, i called the dogs and they went up the stairs before me including the new one, who has followed us since he came home and never leaves us. I put down the coffee and my partner called to me, i pooped my head into the bathroom as he was reminding me to call the vet to make a date to get the new dog castrated. i turned around and notice him gone, i called him as it wasn't like him, and he didn't come, i called again because he normally scoots to your side, it was early quite and something in my bones panicked me i run down the stairs calling him constantly.
I run outside and all i could hear was my sunny boy squeezing and making vibrating noises, the dog was in the grazing area with sunny he picked him up, and i screamed at him to drop him, and he did instantly and i picked him up but Sunny had stopped moving and was floppy, I screamed the street down with my cries, and screamed at the dog to get in the living room and closed the door, i rushed to my daughters room and lay him on the bed, i tried mouth to mouth and blew air into him thinking that surely its just shock and that i can bring him back, i tired pressing on his chest as if beats then blowing more air into him, i was shaking like a leaf and crying and calling his name, but i wasn't sure about guinea pig resus and thought i could be causing more damage to him and his little body so i stopped. I had to let him go because i didn't know what to do. i cradled him in my arms and went out to get moonie(i knew he was ok when i picked up sunny from the dog because he was hiding in there tunnel)
i bought moonie up and placed them both on the bed, moonie just stood there as i sobbed over sunny stroking him for 15 minutes hoping he'd wake up, but of course he didn't and i put them both in the cage incase moonie needed to realised what had happened. i was beside myself and in pieces i was hoping that i'd go in later to find him awake once again 10 minutes later he was still dead. not a drop of blood just lifeless, i decided to wrap him in a pillow case like a baby on his side and but him in one of the little cage toilets, it would always make me laugh when i'd go in in the morning to wake my daughter and see him stretched out asleep in one. i put him in it and then put him in her bathroom, so she could see him one last time. My partner stayed at home with me and didn't go to work because i couldn't stop crying, he held me for hours as i sobbed.
i couldn't eat or drink and just felt sick, the thought of what had happened and having to act like everything was fine when she came home because she had not done some homework, i had planned that i would have her work ready when she came in so we could quickly get it over with then i would tell her. How heartless i felt that i was going to do that, but my daughters had a lot of problems at school and i didn't wan't her work to suffer (plus i doubt a teacher would ever think the death of a pet is a good enough excuse to not do your homework), i knew it was going to break her heart too, and just counting down the time to home time killed me. i fell asleep crying in bed in the afternoon( i felt so cold and depressed) and woke up in time to have a shower and get dressed. then all i had to do was wait, i checked on sunny boy and he'd started to go stiff and his beautiful red eyes had turned more grey. i tired to close them but they wouldn't close.
