Thank you
@Wiebke &
@furryfriends Excellent Adventure Sanctuary I suffer with health problems, mental and physical and it's my pets that cheer me up the most and of course my son, we've sat and had some chuckles over all of the guinea pigs, we've enjoyed looking after them and watching them become happy little piggies. We have a dog as well who seemed to have a little bond with Sheamus as well, he would give him a lick and Sheamus would go to him when he was out on the floor with Big's, he'd go and hide under Calam's food/water bowls (the bowls are in a bracket, the dog had an accident a couple of years ago so we raised his bowls when he was finding it hard to eat). I think I'm mentally tired of loosing things or rather people/pets that I love, what's actually the off putting part is the watching them in pain and not being able to do anything about it.
There was no real warning signs from Sheamus, just the weight loss, he seemed to be eating and drinking, in fact he used to eat more than Bigs and Bigs is a big boy lol. When I did notice the weight loss as I keep saying my son pointed it out to the vet. I'm trying not to feel bad because I know that I did try and get him seen to about anything that I thought was wrong with him, his eye (he had a small patch on one), weight, claws etc. I know it's hard for a vet to say "Oh yea he'll be ok until the operate" or "no we had better do it now" because maybe she wasn't expecting him to lose weight so fast, but I do wish those other vets had looked at him properly and took my son seriously when he took Sheamus.
Here's something funny or not funny really that I just read, now I've seen some say that guinea's don't drink a lot and yet I was looking at the rescue site where I adopted Sheamus, Big's and Snow from and that says they do drink a lot of water?
Big E seems ok at the moment, my son Aidan fed him earlier and said he was eating hay, we'll keep an eye on him though, he's not one for being picked up though, he seems to chatter his teeth for whatever reason and starts moaning.
Thanks again for the kind words, I appreciate it.