08-06-2014, 07:55 PM
As you may know we have been playing host to two rather frightened girlies from the Glynneath Guinea pig rescue.
Leah and Tabitha came from a Social Services referral, their elderly owner had gone into hospital and was very unlikely to come out. It took a while for her family to accept this, but when they did they realised that they had to give up the piggies. A social worker delivered them to Suzy with very little information about them.
They did their 2 weeks quarantine, but because of the lack of info they had to do a 10 week pregnancy watch, just to be on the safe side. They spent the last 7 weeks of that with us.
They have really blossomed into curious, affectionate piggies that will take food from your hand and let you stroke them while they eat it. They sleep out in the open. They let you handle their feet and ears without objection, and just love lap time.
Sadly we are not able to keep them and they have returned to the rescue in search of a forever home. (Hint hint.....Any takers??!!)
I hope it won't be long before these wonderful, beautiful girlies go home.
After returning these girls we brought home an extremely scared little boy called Cecil.
He has been at the rescue for weeks and hasn't settled. He is the most frightened creature I have ever come across. All he wants to do is leap away regardless of where he's leaping. It's rather scary. I feel so sorry for him as no piggy should have to live like that. He is about 8 months old and came from large surrender of animals in England and was piggy trained to Suzy along with 2 other boys. The other two were clearly bonded and are finally settling in, but poor little Cecil is still terrified, so he has come to stay to see if we can help him.
At the moment he is hiding in a castle-type hidey in his cage. I've covered the top of the cage with a blanket to make him feel as secure as possible. We're going to leave him be until clear out day, which will be Saturday or Sunday and build up handling gradually. He is so hard to handle that his nails haven't been trimmed much and really need doing, as my poor scratched arms will attest!! but I think we will have to work our way up to that. Heaven help us if he should need a vet visit!!
Please send all your calming thoughts to Cecil, his prospects of a forever home are severely limited if he is unable to "warm" up to people. He may face the prospect of living out his days at the rescue, not so bad really, but how much nicer to be in a family home with devoted Piggy "slaves"?
Leah and Tabitha came from a Social Services referral, their elderly owner had gone into hospital and was very unlikely to come out. It took a while for her family to accept this, but when they did they realised that they had to give up the piggies. A social worker delivered them to Suzy with very little information about them.
They did their 2 weeks quarantine, but because of the lack of info they had to do a 10 week pregnancy watch, just to be on the safe side. They spent the last 7 weeks of that with us.
They have really blossomed into curious, affectionate piggies that will take food from your hand and let you stroke them while they eat it. They sleep out in the open. They let you handle their feet and ears without objection, and just love lap time.
Sadly we are not able to keep them and they have returned to the rescue in search of a forever home. (Hint hint.....Any takers??!!)
I hope it won't be long before these wonderful, beautiful girlies go home.
After returning these girls we brought home an extremely scared little boy called Cecil.
He has been at the rescue for weeks and hasn't settled. He is the most frightened creature I have ever come across. All he wants to do is leap away regardless of where he's leaping. It's rather scary. I feel so sorry for him as no piggy should have to live like that. He is about 8 months old and came from large surrender of animals in England and was piggy trained to Suzy along with 2 other boys. The other two were clearly bonded and are finally settling in, but poor little Cecil is still terrified, so he has come to stay to see if we can help him.
At the moment he is hiding in a castle-type hidey in his cage. I've covered the top of the cage with a blanket to make him feel as secure as possible. We're going to leave him be until clear out day, which will be Saturday or Sunday and build up handling gradually. He is so hard to handle that his nails haven't been trimmed much and really need doing, as my poor scratched arms will attest!! but I think we will have to work our way up to that. Heaven help us if he should need a vet visit!!
Please send all your calming thoughts to Cecil, his prospects of a forever home are severely limited if he is unable to "warm" up to people. He may face the prospect of living out his days at the rescue, not so bad really, but how much nicer to be in a family home with devoted Piggy "slaves"?
Greeting from Wales.
Hwyl Fawr o'r Cymru.
This is the web site of the rescue I volunteer at.
http://guinearescue.blogspot.co.uk/
Hwyl Fawr o'r Cymru.
This is the web site of the rescue I volunteer at.
http://guinearescue.blogspot.co.uk/
