RIP Cookie

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Hi guys. I haven't been active in here in like ages..ive had problems logging in, but it's ok now, i've got my password reset :)

anyway...i really needed to go on....i have bad news and wanted to share it with other guinea pig lovers :(

Some of you remember my thread that I posted a while back about my guinea pig Cookie having a lump the size of a grape in her flabby chin part. And then I wasn't goin to take her to the vet because I couldn't afford it because I am unemployed and my dad was going to be made redundant soon.

I also didn't take her to the vet because I kinda knew that it was probably a tumour and that he'd probably operate, which would probably stress cookie out and she'd die anyway. So we thought that the best thing to do, is just let nature take it's course (and she was an old pig anyway, i've had cookie for like 6 years.) and just let her live life to the full, give her stuff she enjoys etc (she went out into the garden on the grass a few times :)) and if she got uncomfortable we'd take her to the vet to be put down.

She got worse...I started finding a lump on her side, maybe it was a secondary tumour or cyst not sure...then she started having bowel problems...she started to smell real bad and her poo was really getting stuck together and she was getting bony and her eyes were sinking in. So I knew then that it really was a cancer, she had cancer in her whole body i think, the vet would'nt have done anything if we took her now and only to put her to sleep or tell us to just take her home and let her live her life out.

Cookie died last night. I just gave her a bath, because she smelt and her bum was in a state and put her back into her cage, and I went into the next room to watch tv, it was a couple of hours before I went back into the room cookie was in, I was going to get her out and give her a cuddle but I was shocked to see her lying in the corner, head on side, and eyes rolled up and not breathing. She must've had a stroke or fit.
I knew this day would come, but not that night. My dad buried her in the garden in the dark.

I can't believe she's gone :( my guinea pig that's always been around for 5 or 6 years. We've had no problems with her before, she was a good but bossy pig! LOL:(8...

I feel bad to know that some of you would think why i didn't take her to the vet sooner (even if I can't afford it) But I didn't want her to be cut around in an operation and only to not survive it, or she may have survived it but she would've got the secondary cancer anyway.
My dad didn't like the thought of taking her down the vet and having her life ended with a needle.
I just wanted Cookie to live her last few days, live her life to the full..doing stuff she enjoys...like cuddles and going in the garden eating grass...bossing my maisey around LOL.
I am so pleased though that she got to spend some days in the garden, during the nice weather we've had at the moment :)
And then dying peacefully at home. (I feel bad though that she died whilst I was in the next room and I would've wanted her to die with me there. But...*sigh*
I still have my other guinea pig Maisey though

RIP my amazing but bossy Cookie!
May you rest at the Rainbow Bridge 8...
 
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I'm very sorry for your loss. It sounds like you loved her very much. Big hugs.

Rest well, sweet Cookie. xx
 
Very sorry to hear about Cookie 8...8...8...
RIP Cookie run free at the bridge, have fun with the other piggies, popcorning and munching out on clover and dandelions, you'll be sadly missed but NEVER forgotten by your mummy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
((((((((((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))))))))))) and lots of loves from us all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Another little star now twinkling in the sky ............ :(
 
I am very sorry about your loss.

RIP Cookie
 
Aww, don't feel guilty! I think you did the right thing, better for her to pass on peacefully in her own home than at the vet, where she would have been stressed out and scared.
Rest in peace, Cookie.
 
Sorry to hear about Cookie. My rabbit Cassidy got really thin and we suspected cancer, we took her to the vet but they didn't do anything. We let her live her last few months in peace at home with her cage mate and in the end she went peacefully in October last year.
Sometimes its better to let nature take its course when not much can be done.
RIP Cookie sleep well little one x
 
I am so sorry to hear about Cookie. Nobody will think bad of you for not taking her to the vets. You know your pigs the best and I am sure you wouldn't have let her suffer. Sleep peacefully Cookie x
 
I'm so sorry to hear about Cookie. One of my pigs died in a similar way, I took her to the vet and they didn't do anything, but she got worse very quickly only a couple of days later, so we couldn't take her back in time. I am in a way quite grateful for that though, it meant she died peacefully with us and her sister at home. Sometimes, whether old age or illness, it is OK to let nature take its course, vet visits when a guinea is very ill or dying are very stressful for them. Don't feel bad, she lived a very good and satisfying life with you and she will be very much missed, no guinea could have asked for a more caring and loving owner. :)
 
Thanks guys for all your caring and thoughtful comments.:)

God bless you all x
 
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