Please Help : Momma & babies pigs in need!

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Can you help? I recently saw a post from a woman named Regina, who owns an organic store called Beggars Bones here in Richmond, VA. She is having to rehome 1 pregnant Momma cavy & her two babies, now just a few days old, 1 male & 1 female.

When I saw her post I emailed her with tons of helpful info from Cavy Cages, etc. She then emailed me back with thanks & asked if I could help...unfortunately I have four little bubs & I couldn't possibly take in more. My heart really went out to her though.

This is what she wrote back to me :

"hi sarah
thanks for all your info!!

i knew about cavy/rabbit nutrition from my days in the small animal
field, and i knew that oxbow is pretty much the best out there. they
were on cheap pellet food and table scraps before.....yuck!!!

i'm not sure which ad you saw, b/c different ones have slightly
different information. the deal is that we took in a male/female
couple in one cage, with the female very pregnant. it was a very
last-minute take-in, and we left them at the shop overnight while we
spent that night getting ready to have a whelping cage, make a cage
for the male, etc. well, i walk in the next morning and 2 little newborn piglets poke their head out of their igloo. of course i'm freaking out, 'oh my god, get the male out, get the male out!!!', which we did.

got the male adopted very quickly, but now we have the female and her
piglets (now we can tell that ones male and ones female, have them
seperated), but, you guessed it, she got pregnant in the time between
giving birth and us walking in that morning.

just as you said, any interest so far has been one-liners "how much?"
etc. this puts me in a bit of a dillema, i can care for 3 pigs, but
not 5 or potentially more. i just dont have the time, plus with all
the oxbow it'll get pretty expensive as the numbers grow. the babies
are definately not getting the socialization they need, as most people
that come into the shop have dogs with them, and it's been hard to get
them out of the cage to be handled without a dog eyeing them for a
treat. we cant bring them home b/c the dogs would definately hurt
them. as you can see i'm in something of a pickle!!

any suggestions?

thanks so much!

--
regina

Beggar's Bones
509 N. Meadow St.
Richmond, VA, 23220
www.beggarsbones.com"

...Could anyone possibly help Regina out? If you go to her website you can also see "pigtures" of the two babies. Please help give these little ones a chance, the previous owners basically just discarded them, they obviously should not have adopted them in the first place, since they didn't know how to properly care for them. It's a shame that people don't stop to think...but then again, who doesn't know that an intacted male + female = babies?

*Sigh* Please help!

*Sarah M*