slackalice2k
Teenage Guinea Pig
Meet William.
I only went out to buy hay, but heard this little chap shrieking as soon as i walked into the pet shop. I normally don't look at their animals, but they're the only stockist of the hay my piggies love in the area.
He was in a glass fish tank, with about 6 other piggies, 5 of which were very little, and he'd buried into the shavings whilst the other piggie of the same size as him bullied him incessantly. His crying just was heartbreaking. I asked about the other piggies and the assistant said they'd just come in, so they'd put 5x 6 week olds in with a pair of 12 week old boys, one of the baby's happened to be a girl. I couldn't stand there and let him suffer. So he's now bonded with Spike whose nearly 2, and has taken him under his wing.
Phew bonding is a tiring business.
After a closer look at a far more relaxed William, (he was just a bundle of shavings when he first came), he has a few little bite wounds and a thick lip, though you can't see them in the photo's, he's going to the vet first thing tommorrow to have be thoroughly looked over. I don't know whether morally I did the right thing, by buying from a pet shop, but I felt it was the right thing to do for William.
Not sure of breeds, but thinking either Texel or Lunky, anybody any ideas of the difference.
I only went out to buy hay, but heard this little chap shrieking as soon as i walked into the pet shop. I normally don't look at their animals, but they're the only stockist of the hay my piggies love in the area.
He was in a glass fish tank, with about 6 other piggies, 5 of which were very little, and he'd buried into the shavings whilst the other piggie of the same size as him bullied him incessantly. His crying just was heartbreaking. I asked about the other piggies and the assistant said they'd just come in, so they'd put 5x 6 week olds in with a pair of 12 week old boys, one of the baby's happened to be a girl. I couldn't stand there and let him suffer. So he's now bonded with Spike whose nearly 2, and has taken him under his wing.
Phew bonding is a tiring business.
After a closer look at a far more relaxed William, (he was just a bundle of shavings when he first came), he has a few little bite wounds and a thick lip, though you can't see them in the photo's, he's going to the vet first thing tommorrow to have be thoroughly looked over. I don't know whether morally I did the right thing, by buying from a pet shop, but I felt it was the right thing to do for William.
Not sure of breeds, but thinking either Texel or Lunky, anybody any ideas of the difference.
but NOW he's got a friend to play with and a wonderful forever home x)x)
