fashion victim
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2006
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- Joined
- Oct 10, 2006
- Messages
- 432
Well, I was finally able to find some piggies. I wasn't expecting them until much later, but this was a chance I could NOT pass up. Let's see. On the 3rd of January I got a call from one of the places I'd left my phone number in case anyone did not want their Guinea Pigs anymore. It was the feedstore where I got the Ivermectin. The lady called me and told me that someone had dropped off a very pregnant pig yesterday outside her store's door in a cardboard box. She put her in a spare cage along with some food and water and bedding and left her there overnight until she could contact me the next day (my cel phone was off). When she got there on the 3rd of January she found that the pregnant pig had given birth to 3 babies. She called me very early and mom took me in the biggest hurry and we went to pick them up. Since then it's been a constant flurry of shopping around for stuff. I already ordered a 9 pound bag of hay from Kleenmama with the limited funds I had at the moment on my Visa and the order is supposed to ship today.
I had to go get a bag of the Mazuri because I needed pellets instantly. Lucky for me there's a distributor very near here, only a few miles away, but he told me he could only sell me the biggest bags, which is what he works with. So now I have a 20+ pound bag of Mazuri which the pigs have to finnish before I order Kleenmama's pellets. Right now they're munching on LM Animal Farms alfalfa and timothy but they don't seem too into it. I suppose it's because whoever dumped her didn't give her any. I've also been trying to feed her different foods. She inmediately took to light green romaine lettuce but wouldn't eat anything else. Since then I've gotten her to eat orange, red and green peppers, a very dark green romaine, 1 green grape, 1 cherry (no pits), a bit of apple and a pinch of alfalfa sprouts.
I'm making do with coroplast walls around the area which are about 2 feet high so that my dog or bunny can get inside the Guinea Pig area. I can NOT wait until my aunt has the time to get the cubes and pack and send them here because I'm a bit of emergency, so I'll just go and buy the closet shelving which I saw at home depot. I went yesterday and bought a bunch of towels and I have some queen sized fleece blankets that I found while my mom and I were emptying out my grandparent's stuff from the closets, plus their old towels. The cage has 10 inch high walls, and the run has fleece, towels, newspaper and crappy hay beneath eerything.
The 3 babies are extremely cute. There's 2 abbyssinians and one smooth haired, all black with orange spots and a few itsy bitsy patches of white. There's either 2 males and 1 female or 1 male and 2 females. Not sure yet. I'm really opting towards separating the males from the females until the 5 months age so I can neuter them and stay with them. I can NOT bear to give them away because honestly I can't find anyone here who would go the extra mile towards the high maintenance of a 20 dollar animal.
I'll make a photoshop later account so I can add the pic of the babies here. Right now I'm completely exhausted from the stress and running around buying stuff. This morning my room smelled rotten and I almost died thinking she had toxemia or something, but it was just old vegetables in my trash can.
I'll keep you guys updated, and I'll try to deal with the pictures tomorrow!
I had to go get a bag of the Mazuri because I needed pellets instantly. Lucky for me there's a distributor very near here, only a few miles away, but he told me he could only sell me the biggest bags, which is what he works with. So now I have a 20+ pound bag of Mazuri which the pigs have to finnish before I order Kleenmama's pellets. Right now they're munching on LM Animal Farms alfalfa and timothy but they don't seem too into it. I suppose it's because whoever dumped her didn't give her any. I've also been trying to feed her different foods. She inmediately took to light green romaine lettuce but wouldn't eat anything else. Since then I've gotten her to eat orange, red and green peppers, a very dark green romaine, 1 green grape, 1 cherry (no pits), a bit of apple and a pinch of alfalfa sprouts.
I'm making do with coroplast walls around the area which are about 2 feet high so that my dog or bunny can get inside the Guinea Pig area. I can NOT wait until my aunt has the time to get the cubes and pack and send them here because I'm a bit of emergency, so I'll just go and buy the closet shelving which I saw at home depot. I went yesterday and bought a bunch of towels and I have some queen sized fleece blankets that I found while my mom and I were emptying out my grandparent's stuff from the closets, plus their old towels. The cage has 10 inch high walls, and the run has fleece, towels, newspaper and crappy hay beneath eerything.
The 3 babies are extremely cute. There's 2 abbyssinians and one smooth haired, all black with orange spots and a few itsy bitsy patches of white. There's either 2 males and 1 female or 1 male and 2 females. Not sure yet. I'm really opting towards separating the males from the females until the 5 months age so I can neuter them and stay with them. I can NOT bear to give them away because honestly I can't find anyone here who would go the extra mile towards the high maintenance of a 20 dollar animal.
I'll make a photoshop later account so I can add the pic of the babies here. Right now I'm completely exhausted from the stress and running around buying stuff. This morning my room smelled rotten and I almost died thinking she had toxemia or something, but it was just old vegetables in my trash can.
I'll keep you guys updated, and I'll try to deal with the pictures tomorrow!