01-10-2015, 08:44 PM
So Cecil is now well established with his 3 Ladies and the foster pen has been empty for a few weeks. Well it is empty no longer.
Ollie came to stay on Tuesday. Ollie is about 5 months old and came into the rescue with his Mum, Auntie and 2 sisters who were litter mates. There had been a mix up when they sexed the babies and the 2 girls turned out to be Ollie and one of his sisters, the other sister had been removed thinking she was the boy!!
This was rectified straight away but they were 12 weeks old by then so any damages had already been done. The females have all completed a 10 week pregnancy watch and so far there have been no babies.
Ollie proved to be very frightened and small and in the 10 weeks he was at the rescue he hardly emerged from his hidey. We know he must have done because his food and water were going, but nobody ever saw him.
So he's come to us to see what we can do. We have quite a good track record with frightened piggies so here goes.
He's already learned the rustle of the plastic salad bag and calls most enthusiastically whenever he hears it. He has also decided that it's not so bad out side the hidey and will sit in the open, even as we pass, as long as we don't open the cage. Then he shoots off like a rocket!! But yesterday he didn't hide in his castle, he stood behind it and then peeped up over the top of it to see what I was doing, so I think he's going to be quite easy to bring around. He calls to our other piggies and responds when they call. Up until now he's been too scared to meet others but at the rate he's going I think he will be ready in a few weeks. Another piggy, confident with people, is just what he needs so I hope a forever home comes along for him soon, once he's ready.
His arrival photo can be seen here
http://guinearescue.blogspot.co.uk/p/new-arrivals.html
If you scroll down to 28/10/14 he's the first piggy there.
His Mum and the other girlies are in the photo below his.
Ollie came to stay on Tuesday. Ollie is about 5 months old and came into the rescue with his Mum, Auntie and 2 sisters who were litter mates. There had been a mix up when they sexed the babies and the 2 girls turned out to be Ollie and one of his sisters, the other sister had been removed thinking she was the boy!!
This was rectified straight away but they were 12 weeks old by then so any damages had already been done. The females have all completed a 10 week pregnancy watch and so far there have been no babies.
Ollie proved to be very frightened and small and in the 10 weeks he was at the rescue he hardly emerged from his hidey. We know he must have done because his food and water were going, but nobody ever saw him.
So he's come to us to see what we can do. We have quite a good track record with frightened piggies so here goes.
He's already learned the rustle of the plastic salad bag and calls most enthusiastically whenever he hears it. He has also decided that it's not so bad out side the hidey and will sit in the open, even as we pass, as long as we don't open the cage. Then he shoots off like a rocket!! But yesterday he didn't hide in his castle, he stood behind it and then peeped up over the top of it to see what I was doing, so I think he's going to be quite easy to bring around. He calls to our other piggies and responds when they call. Up until now he's been too scared to meet others but at the rate he's going I think he will be ready in a few weeks. Another piggy, confident with people, is just what he needs so I hope a forever home comes along for him soon, once he's ready.
His arrival photo can be seen here
http://guinearescue.blogspot.co.uk/p/new-arrivals.html
If you scroll down to 28/10/14 he's the first piggy there.
His Mum and the other girlies are in the photo below his.
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/
