JarBax
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I am so excited…
A while back, Daftscotslass got in touch to see if we’d like to join forces to help out at the Scottish guinea pig rescue, Thistle Cavies. Unfortunately, we couldn’t make it all together, but my son and I went there from my parent’s house (saving an extra 2 hours travel) 3 days ago. Seems like 3 months!!!
What an incredible place! 89 pigs – down from over 100, loads of different breeds (lots I’d only seen in pics here), and wonderful people! After a lot of cage cleaning etc, and a bowl of soup, we had a look at the 4 girl pigs Wendi was happy to adopt…I’ll not pretend - we were hoping for wee pigs. However, the young ones weren’t well enough to be re-homed. These four, around 9 months old, had come from a huge rescue, a visitor attraction which has since closed down. The pigs were kept 60+ to a cage, without hay, bedded on wood chips, and fed half a cabbage a day. Martin said that sometimes the cabbage was slimy, and he saw the pigs trying to eat the woodchips. Thistle ended up having to buy every pig.
All had suffered from malnutrition, overcrowding and neglect. We chose the first and last pigs Wendi showed us.
All 5 (one was reserved) were extremely skittish – seriously racing about the cage in fright. The first pig was just gorgeous (my heart melts). She was dark, and hairy!! A bit of a mega mix, part Peruvian, part abbysinian with a bit of sheltie crossed with English smooth. The best of all worlds!
The last was the most nervous of the lot. A tri-coloured smooth-coated sweetie, wavier than Marble, her colouring made a fantastic pattern on her back! Her ragged eye ‘lids’ and ears showed more clearly than the first pig, signs of the neglect she had suffered.
For adoption purposes, we called the first pig Misty (it was really misty on the drive up!), and the second, Mazey because of her crazy – Mazey coat!
We took Misty and Mazey home to my folk’s house for the night. I put them in an old cage, next to Mary and Marble’s makeshift pen for the night
Time for some pigtures!
The first pic!
Venturing out for a nibble
Mary investigates
A while back, Daftscotslass got in touch to see if we’d like to join forces to help out at the Scottish guinea pig rescue, Thistle Cavies. Unfortunately, we couldn’t make it all together, but my son and I went there from my parent’s house (saving an extra 2 hours travel) 3 days ago. Seems like 3 months!!!
What an incredible place! 89 pigs – down from over 100, loads of different breeds (lots I’d only seen in pics here), and wonderful people! After a lot of cage cleaning etc, and a bowl of soup, we had a look at the 4 girl pigs Wendi was happy to adopt…I’ll not pretend - we were hoping for wee pigs. However, the young ones weren’t well enough to be re-homed. These four, around 9 months old, had come from a huge rescue, a visitor attraction which has since closed down. The pigs were kept 60+ to a cage, without hay, bedded on wood chips, and fed half a cabbage a day. Martin said that sometimes the cabbage was slimy, and he saw the pigs trying to eat the woodchips. Thistle ended up having to buy every pig.
All had suffered from malnutrition, overcrowding and neglect. We chose the first and last pigs Wendi showed us.
All 5 (one was reserved) were extremely skittish – seriously racing about the cage in fright. The first pig was just gorgeous (my heart melts). She was dark, and hairy!! A bit of a mega mix, part Peruvian, part abbysinian with a bit of sheltie crossed with English smooth. The best of all worlds!
The last was the most nervous of the lot. A tri-coloured smooth-coated sweetie, wavier than Marble, her colouring made a fantastic pattern on her back! Her ragged eye ‘lids’ and ears showed more clearly than the first pig, signs of the neglect she had suffered.
For adoption purposes, we called the first pig Misty (it was really misty on the drive up!), and the second, Mazey because of her crazy – Mazey coat!
We took Misty and Mazey home to my folk’s house for the night. I put them in an old cage, next to Mary and Marble’s makeshift pen for the night
Time for some pigtures!
The first pic!
Venturing out for a nibble
Mary investigates
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