Dudleydoo
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- Dec 12, 2011
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- Joined
- Dec 12, 2011
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Hello everyone,
This is my first post here and I am excited to say I am finally a guinea pig owner!
I used to have them when I was younger, but haven't had any in at least 10 years. It has taken me almost 8 months to convince my husband to add a piggie into our family, and he finally agreed last week after I found the perfect one.
I was determined to get a piggie from a shelter or rescue and I did not want a baby since over the last few months I have been looking online and it always seemed like the young guinea pigs were only at the shelter for a short amount of time but the ones over a year old stayed for awhile.
I looked at a shelter about 90mins away from my home just as a joke to my husband because I told him that I would drive hours if I had to. Turns out I ended up falling in love with a picture of him and we drove out there 2 days later, met him, fell in love with him even more, adopted him and brought him home - we have had him for a week now. The staff at the shelter kept thanking us for making the drive out there and adopting rather than buying one for a local pet store
His name is Dudley and he is just over 3 years old, he had been at the shelter since October and no one really wanted him because his fur is a little crazy and coarse and apparently people were always looking for really soft fur. He is such a sweet piggie, he isn't afraid of us at all and he is so curious about everything - he loves sniffing the cats through the cage and he loves toilet paper rolls and hay.
The first picture of him is from the other night when he was eating his veggies - he loves any thing we give him. The second picture was taken the day we brought him home. We started out using Boxo, but have switched to fleece to see how we like it - so far so good.
**I know this forum is really big on large cages and I just want to say that he is in an xl ferret cage at the moment and will be until after Christmas, but we are in the process of building him a c & c cage. My husband and I got an amazing deal on grids - we paid $40 for 65 grids, we are just waiting until we can get the coroplast this week. So, I promise this store bought cage is really only temporary and I will have pictures of the c & c cage as soon as it is built. I just wanted to introduce myself and Dudley before then!
This is my first post here and I am excited to say I am finally a guinea pig owner!
I used to have them when I was younger, but haven't had any in at least 10 years. It has taken me almost 8 months to convince my husband to add a piggie into our family, and he finally agreed last week after I found the perfect one.
I was determined to get a piggie from a shelter or rescue and I did not want a baby since over the last few months I have been looking online and it always seemed like the young guinea pigs were only at the shelter for a short amount of time but the ones over a year old stayed for awhile.
I looked at a shelter about 90mins away from my home just as a joke to my husband because I told him that I would drive hours if I had to. Turns out I ended up falling in love with a picture of him and we drove out there 2 days later, met him, fell in love with him even more, adopted him and brought him home - we have had him for a week now. The staff at the shelter kept thanking us for making the drive out there and adopting rather than buying one for a local pet store
His name is Dudley and he is just over 3 years old, he had been at the shelter since October and no one really wanted him because his fur is a little crazy and coarse and apparently people were always looking for really soft fur. He is such a sweet piggie, he isn't afraid of us at all and he is so curious about everything - he loves sniffing the cats through the cage and he loves toilet paper rolls and hay.
The first picture of him is from the other night when he was eating his veggies - he loves any thing we give him. The second picture was taken the day we brought him home. We started out using Boxo, but have switched to fleece to see how we like it - so far so good.
**I know this forum is really big on large cages and I just want to say that he is in an xl ferret cage at the moment and will be until after Christmas, but we are in the process of building him a c & c cage. My husband and I got an amazing deal on grids - we paid $40 for 65 grids, we are just waiting until we can get the coroplast this week. So, I promise this store bought cage is really only temporary and I will have pictures of the c & c cage as soon as it is built. I just wanted to introduce myself and Dudley before then!
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