Ed55
Junior Guinea Pig
My wife and I are sad to say that recently, our guinea pig Rusty has passed on.
He stopped eating suddenly, and we were barely able to get him to eat syringe feed him emergency food, and when we were able to get him to the vet (the exotic pets vet near us has limited days/hours and other vets won't take guinea pigs). Rusty quickly was looking visibly sick. When we got to the vet, Rusty seemed to be relieved when he was in the veterinarians arms being brought to get an x-ray.
Upon returning from the x-ray, the vet had a difficult conversation with us. It turned out Rusty had a severe kidney issue that was causing him so much pain he no longer had an appetite.
Rusty was listening to the vet and looking at him during this time. The suggested for us to take a few minutes with Rusty to decide course of action, and Rusty made a painful sounding noise, louder than we have ever heard which we took as him saying that he was in too much pain and ready to move on to guinea pig heaven which we honored.
Rusty when we first adopted him, he was a timid and shy pig that was mute and he would nip. After time passed, we socialized him he became physically active, vocal and wanted to be everyone's friend. When we let him out of his pen he knew his way around our house, we taught him some tricks and he was extremely confident and playful. When we had guests over, he especially wanted to come out and meet everyone and would climb up the side of his pen until we got him out. Rusty brought joy to us as well as friends and family. When we alerted everyone Rusty's passing, we were surprised to get so many condolences and grievance cards. Rusty was a special guinea pig and he will be missed.
He was always photogenic as typical for guinea pigs.
Hungry Hippo was another nickname we had for him
He also was savvy in fine dining. We didn't even have to pose him for this. When we took the shot he took a pause from eating and turned towards the camera..
RIP Rusty!
He stopped eating suddenly, and we were barely able to get him to eat syringe feed him emergency food, and when we were able to get him to the vet (the exotic pets vet near us has limited days/hours and other vets won't take guinea pigs). Rusty quickly was looking visibly sick. When we got to the vet, Rusty seemed to be relieved when he was in the veterinarians arms being brought to get an x-ray.
Upon returning from the x-ray, the vet had a difficult conversation with us. It turned out Rusty had a severe kidney issue that was causing him so much pain he no longer had an appetite.
Rusty was listening to the vet and looking at him during this time. The suggested for us to take a few minutes with Rusty to decide course of action, and Rusty made a painful sounding noise, louder than we have ever heard which we took as him saying that he was in too much pain and ready to move on to guinea pig heaven which we honored.
Rusty when we first adopted him, he was a timid and shy pig that was mute and he would nip. After time passed, we socialized him he became physically active, vocal and wanted to be everyone's friend. When we let him out of his pen he knew his way around our house, we taught him some tricks and he was extremely confident and playful. When we had guests over, he especially wanted to come out and meet everyone and would climb up the side of his pen until we got him out. Rusty brought joy to us as well as friends and family. When we alerted everyone Rusty's passing, we were surprised to get so many condolences and grievance cards. Rusty was a special guinea pig and he will be missed.
He was always photogenic as typical for guinea pigs.
Hungry Hippo was another nickname we had for him
He also was savvy in fine dining. We didn't even have to pose him for this. When we took the shot he took a pause from eating and turned towards the camera..
RIP Rusty!
