Hello All,
My foster piggy finally went to a good forever home! His story can be found here: https://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/about-guinea-pigs/40819-disappointed-people-but-have-new-addition.html
His rescue/rehabilitation was such a success that I now strongly feel the need to save more piggies; unfortunately, this urge led me to get one from a local feed store.
I know what everyone's going to say, and I know it's morally wrong to get a pig from a store (I've adopted my 3 other lovely ladies) but this pig was in such bad shape that I convinced the store owner to let me take her for free, as she'd just die in the store soon anyways. Apparently she'd just given birth to a litter, all of which died. She was soooooooo skinny that I couldn't believe she was still alive. She obviously had scurvy, and worst of all (in my opinion) she was kept in a pen with a VERY large rabbit. I swear, his foot was longer than her whole body. Her nails were so overgrown they curled into her feet.
I took her straight to the vet (which was right next door) the minute I walked out of the store. After almost a month of treatments, nail cuttings, and lots and lots of good food, she's finally healthy again. I introduced her to my other 3 pigs, and they accepted her willingly; however, she's terrified of them.
She's always just hid in her pigloo, but now if another pig even thinks about joining her in there (they're all snugglers) she starts screaming. That's right, screaming. I've never heard anything like it in my life. It's a high pitched "help-me-I'm-being-murdered" scream. Sometimes she'll come out of the pigloo for a quick munch or a quick drink, and if another pig walks past her she freezes and screams.
My question is, does anyone else have a pig like this? Is she just terrified because she's never really been with another guinea pig in her entire life? She's such a cute little angel, I'd love to see her running around and popcorning constantly like my others do. Could she just need some more time for adjustment? This has already gone on for 2 weeks.
My foster piggy finally went to a good forever home! His story can be found here: https://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/about-guinea-pigs/40819-disappointed-people-but-have-new-addition.html
His rescue/rehabilitation was such a success that I now strongly feel the need to save more piggies; unfortunately, this urge led me to get one from a local feed store.
I know what everyone's going to say, and I know it's morally wrong to get a pig from a store (I've adopted my 3 other lovely ladies) but this pig was in such bad shape that I convinced the store owner to let me take her for free, as she'd just die in the store soon anyways. Apparently she'd just given birth to a litter, all of which died. She was soooooooo skinny that I couldn't believe she was still alive. She obviously had scurvy, and worst of all (in my opinion) she was kept in a pen with a VERY large rabbit. I swear, his foot was longer than her whole body. Her nails were so overgrown they curled into her feet.
I took her straight to the vet (which was right next door) the minute I walked out of the store. After almost a month of treatments, nail cuttings, and lots and lots of good food, she's finally healthy again. I introduced her to my other 3 pigs, and they accepted her willingly; however, she's terrified of them.
She's always just hid in her pigloo, but now if another pig even thinks about joining her in there (they're all snugglers) she starts screaming. That's right, screaming. I've never heard anything like it in my life. It's a high pitched "help-me-I'm-being-murdered" scream. Sometimes she'll come out of the pigloo for a quick munch or a quick drink, and if another pig walks past her she freezes and screams.
My question is, does anyone else have a pig like this? Is she just terrified because she's never really been with another guinea pig in her entire life? She's such a cute little angel, I'd love to see her running around and popcorning constantly like my others do. Could she just need some more time for adjustment? This has already gone on for 2 weeks.