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Sometimes It's Meant To Be

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At the beginning of the year a Pets at Home opened near us, I'd heard lots of negative comments about this company and never having been in one I went in for a look. They had two pens of very tiny baby guinea pigs. I stood for a while watching the boars, there were about eight of them all in together. Two little ones really stood out to me, one very fluffy and the other what I thought was an aby. They stood out was because they stayed together ignoring the others, they had a bond already. I hoped wherever they went they stayed together. I called back in the following week and they and most of that batch of babies had gone. Over the next few weeks my thoughts often strayed to those two little boars, I worried about the type of home they had gone to, had they gone together? I'd found the prices in that shop a bit excessive and buy my guinea stuff elsewhere but the next time I went that way something made me go in. There in the rehoming section were the two boars I'd seen before, they had been returned as faulty goods! I went home and told my partner the story and his immediate reaction was 'when are you going to get them?'. I already had Spike and Peanut, we didn't have room for more, I wasn't looking for more piggies, I was happy with the ones I already had.
I slept on it and decided I would go in the next day and if they were still there I would bring them home, otherwise I would always wonder what had become of them, there was some kind of connection between us when I looked in those eyes.
They had been returned because one of them had a scab on his tummy and the new owner had looked up Pets at Home and scab and come up with ringworm. They went into quarantine in the back of the shop and were regularly checked by the vet but the scab quickly disapeared and there has never been any sign of fungal or anything else wrong with them. I didn't like the names they had been given so they became Willow and Bracken. They started out in Spike and Peanut's baby cage in the bedroom while we decided how to fit them into the house in something more suitable for growing piggies.
 
Mine 2 sows came from P@H too. They were together in the cage and so they too had a good bond. Just as well as I had to separate them 35 days later when Velvet had her piglets! When I reintroduced Velvet back to Betsy it was as if they had never been apart and Betsy was delighted to see Velvet and went running up to her squeaking and wheaking and popcorning away so happy to see her friend again. She also bonded well with Meg (Velvet's daughter). Then eventually the two boys Christian and Dennis once they had been neutered. There is a sign in P@H that says something along the lines of 'we treat our animals just like they are our own pets' Err .... Really?
 
That's a really nice story, as you say perhaps it was meant to be.
piggieminder said:
They had been returned because one of them had a scab on his tummy and the new owner had looked up Pets at Home and scab and come up with ringworm.
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Honestly, some people! If you don't want to look after an animal "in sickness and in health", then the only pet you should have is a pet cactus - or a pet rock. GRR :cen:
 
thank you for sharing your happy ending story! and you did the right thing. This is something similar to an adoption at the rescue... because also into shops piggies need to be saved...
 
Aw piggieminder you really were in the same situation as me! Thanks for replying to my thread about my dilemma. Glad you got them, they deserve someone who truly cares !:luv:
 
I've taken in sows from the P@H adoption centre before as well. Lily came to me at 15 weeks old. She was brought at 6 weeks and returned immediately as, despite P@H advising not to have a ramp in the hutch for such young piggies, she had fallen off the ramp and fractured her leg! The owners didn't want to pay for it all so she was returned, nursed back to health and then came to me. She's a feisty little lady (probably because she was only handled to give meds to) but is slowly coming round.
 
Awww.... that's beautiful. Not sure about the irresponsible previous owners, piggies are not "goods", they are beings and...rant rant rant....! Sometimes it really is Meant to be.
<---- these lovely ladies on the left were also meant to be. I was struggling after losing my eldest piggy and having to rehome her partner because she was so depressed. I was piggiless for about 10 days and I eventually decided to clean up their cage and put it on a sales site, so i wouldn't have the constant reminder around. Just as I was logging into the sales site, someone in the next village put up a pic of these aged 15 and 16 weeks and needing a new forever home. It was so close to me, they are sisters and bonded and they didn't cost much. I'm used to caring for sows, and had the money available to get them vet checked. I had all the things I needed to care for them.... so i went and got them. I've had them a week (or a Wheek!) now, and they are settling well and being treated for lice, but the timing of the advert was spooky! I totally believe these two were meant for me!
 
Oh lucky piggies being rescued by you! They were probably not wanted cos they had lice! Poor things. At least they are being treated by a new very caring piggie slave!
 
Oh what absolutely gorgeous piggies. I may have to come over tonight to visit. Bristol is only a couple of hours from here!:bal:
 
It's a terrible road though @Betsy, although you'd be very welcome to call in for a cup of tea, I will of course count the piggys before you leave!
 
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