Please welcome Cooper into our family...
As we all know the Forum is truly a global community. How Cooper came to us is a wonderful example of this. Our attention was drawn to him via a American Guinea Pig community on Facebook. Coopers slave had posted, that she needed to re-home him due to genuine change of circumstances, a Moderator on the Facebook page is friends with our very own Wiebke, who then alerted us, as the poster was based in Scotland. So via the Facebook page the poster was told about the forum.
Our original plan was to have one of our piggies (Hunter) neutered but we have found out recently that he has cataracts so his sight isn't particularly good. We are almost sure he is completely blind so don't want to put him through the trauma of an op at this time. He is currently next to Basil and Dexter and enjoys the occasional interaction through the bars with them, he seems happy when this can be done on his own terms. Meanwhile this has opened up a place so to speak in our herd for a neutered boar so the plan is that Cooper will come to live with us and we will quarantine him for a couple of weeks and then get him along to our vets or Joanne at Hutches vets and have him neutered. Post 6 weeks he will be introduced to Saffi and Nibbles.
Today Cooper has been collected from his owner and brought home to live with our piggy family. He is gorgeous although the attached pigtures don't do him justice. He has had a quick nail trim, bum trim and bath and is now settling in well. His appetite doesn't seem to be affected as he has munched his way through some veggies and is now starting on the hay. There are nice healthy poops too
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Here are a couple of pigtures -
Lets hope that he enjoys the sounds of feeding time tonight as the other 12 piggies wheek for their supper.
Lisa & Ali.....x
@Wiebke
As we all know the Forum is truly a global community. How Cooper came to us is a wonderful example of this. Our attention was drawn to him via a American Guinea Pig community on Facebook. Coopers slave had posted, that she needed to re-home him due to genuine change of circumstances, a Moderator on the Facebook page is friends with our very own Wiebke, who then alerted us, as the poster was based in Scotland. So via the Facebook page the poster was told about the forum.
Our original plan was to have one of our piggies (Hunter) neutered but we have found out recently that he has cataracts so his sight isn't particularly good. We are almost sure he is completely blind so don't want to put him through the trauma of an op at this time. He is currently next to Basil and Dexter and enjoys the occasional interaction through the bars with them, he seems happy when this can be done on his own terms. Meanwhile this has opened up a place so to speak in our herd for a neutered boar so the plan is that Cooper will come to live with us and we will quarantine him for a couple of weeks and then get him along to our vets or Joanne at Hutches vets and have him neutered. Post 6 weeks he will be introduced to Saffi and Nibbles.
Today Cooper has been collected from his owner and brought home to live with our piggy family. He is gorgeous although the attached pigtures don't do him justice. He has had a quick nail trim, bum trim and bath and is now settling in well. His appetite doesn't seem to be affected as he has munched his way through some veggies and is now starting on the hay. There are nice healthy poops too
.Here are a couple of pigtures -
Lets hope that he enjoys the sounds of feeding time tonight as the other 12 piggies wheek for their supper.
Lisa & Ali.....x
@Wiebke
look at that lovely quiff handsome fella 
