PigglePuggle
Senior Guinea Pig
I am very proud of myself and the piggies, we achieved home nail trims this afternoon! Usually we go to the vet nurse but Jezzy's poor old crusty curly nails looked quite bad, and we dont have a free day to go to the vet nurse with 8 piggies until the Christmas holidays... plus with my roof leak expenses, 8x£9.50 is quite a big expense for toenails...
So I trimmed nails! Well, mostly. Jezzy was an absolute floofy angel, she's well used to having her weekend foot clean and massage so she barely noticed the nails being done too. Blod was also very good, she was having a bum bath and some clumpy gunk trimmed out of her bum fur anyway. Piggle let me do 3 of her feet before she started writhing around like a snake and bit me. Puggle let me do her back feet, her front ones looked ok. Theo wouldnt co-operate as I think he sensed it might be willy check day (he wedged his big boar behind firmly in the haycube and wouldnt shift until he was back in the cage!) so I'll grab him tomorrow when he isnt expecting it and have a go then!
Poor big pig Clover wasnt having it at all, she's not keen on being messed about with, but she still got a parsley reward and her lovely big ears kissed for being briefly held in a nail trim position and letting me touch her feet, so we'll stick with that for today and maybe do one foot at a time
Well done piggywigs!
So I trimmed nails! Well, mostly. Jezzy was an absolute floofy angel, she's well used to having her weekend foot clean and massage so she barely noticed the nails being done too. Blod was also very good, she was having a bum bath and some clumpy gunk trimmed out of her bum fur anyway. Piggle let me do 3 of her feet before she started writhing around like a snake and bit me. Puggle let me do her back feet, her front ones looked ok. Theo wouldnt co-operate as I think he sensed it might be willy check day (he wedged his big boar behind firmly in the haycube and wouldnt shift until he was back in the cage!) so I'll grab him tomorrow when he isnt expecting it and have a go then!
Poor big pig Clover wasnt having it at all, she's not keen on being messed about with, but she still got a parsley reward and her lovely big ears kissed for being briefly held in a nail trim position and letting me touch her feet, so we'll stick with that for today and maybe do one foot at a time
Well done piggywigs!