Just got an adult female into the rescue tonight. Was at the feed shop getting Oxbow and she was behind the counter in a, well, nasty dinky cage
. I asked what was up with the guinea pig and they said she had been dropped off by a man who said "Get rid of it". They were going to take it to a pet shop because they didn't sell animals, didn't want to carry animals, etc. I said "Don't bother! I'm taking her with me." So she is in quarantine, scared out of her mind, cowering. She obviously has never seen a hidey, doesn't know what to do with it. The cage she was in was smaller than "My First Home" - maybe 1x1.5 if it was a C&C. The people working at the feed store said the man had told them he had kept her in it since they got her as a baby. No companion, Vit.C in the water, the list goes on and on..... The food was even caked into the bottom of the bowl (you know the kind - the neon fiesta cr*p)
. <shakes head> Oh, the worst part?! (well, if this all wasn't horrible enough)... her bedding, if you can call it that, was newspaper that was soaked thru with urine and water and abour 1/2 inch of poo covering the bottom
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So she obviously needs a bath, and her nails REALLY need trimmed (they are curly). I think I'm going to wait a couple of days though. She is so traumatized I think I would give her a heart attack if I tried to bathe and clip her. Obviously it's never been done.