Hello, I'm Sunny's dad and I would like to share his story...
In July 2008 my daughter (then age 11) saved her money to get a guinea pig. When she had enough we went to the pet store and bought "Sunny". The store told us it was a girl piggie. Sunny lived in a nice size cage in my daughters room for 3 1/2 years. My only connection with Sunny was when I would help my daughter change the cage cedar each week. Then in May of 2012 my daughter noticed it's bottom was full of "poop". The next day Sunny looked like she was going to "pass". I did some quick research and found out it was impacted and wasn't passing it's poop. I called a vet that deals with exotic pets and brought Sunny in. Turns out I was right about the impaction, but we were wrong about the gender. Sunny was a male! For 3 1/2 years we were referring to it as a "her" but it was really a "him". When I saw the helplessness of this poor piggie and how cute HE really was my heart melted. I was now in love with this piggie! He was no longer my daughter's pet but rather "my" Sunny. He survived the impaction and for the next four months I cleaned out the poop from him twice a day (I actually got very good at doing it and after a while could clean him out in 5 minutes!). I took extra good care of him, but he started 'slowing down'. I had him at the vets at least once a month from May to Sept with some issue but Sunny always pulled through. On Monday, Sept 17th Sunny really started slowing down. he stopped eating and drinking. I called the vet and took him in again. This time the doctor said he wouldn't recover. He was in a lot of pain. My heart was completely broken. I had to "put him to sleep" that night. My heart is still broken. I can't believe how attached I got to him in the last four months. I love you Sunny and miss you very very much
- your dad.
In July 2008 my daughter (then age 11) saved her money to get a guinea pig. When she had enough we went to the pet store and bought "Sunny". The store told us it was a girl piggie. Sunny lived in a nice size cage in my daughters room for 3 1/2 years. My only connection with Sunny was when I would help my daughter change the cage cedar each week. Then in May of 2012 my daughter noticed it's bottom was full of "poop". The next day Sunny looked like she was going to "pass". I did some quick research and found out it was impacted and wasn't passing it's poop. I called a vet that deals with exotic pets and brought Sunny in. Turns out I was right about the impaction, but we were wrong about the gender. Sunny was a male! For 3 1/2 years we were referring to it as a "her" but it was really a "him". When I saw the helplessness of this poor piggie and how cute HE really was my heart melted. I was now in love with this piggie! He was no longer my daughter's pet but rather "my" Sunny. He survived the impaction and for the next four months I cleaned out the poop from him twice a day (I actually got very good at doing it and after a while could clean him out in 5 minutes!). I took extra good care of him, but he started 'slowing down'. I had him at the vets at least once a month from May to Sept with some issue but Sunny always pulled through. On Monday, Sept 17th Sunny really started slowing down. he stopped eating and drinking. I called the vet and took him in again. This time the doctor said he wouldn't recover. He was in a lot of pain. My heart was completely broken. I had to "put him to sleep" that night. My heart is still broken. I can't believe how attached I got to him in the last four months. I love you Sunny and miss you very very much
- your dad.
