knirpslyn1
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Cavy Slave
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- Feb 9, 2015
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Did I say short? I'll probably overtype that by a mile. >.>
(Edit: Whoops, turns out I wrote over 21,000 characters for this blog entry...so it'll be a four parter, as the cap is 10,000 characters! ...so...more like 4 or 5 miles, eh? ^^;
A little while back, I lost one of my guinea pigs (Rogue) to what appeared to be the side effects of a stroke and natural selection. Since then, I have been seeking a companion for Rosetta, her daughter.
Throughout this journey, I have become a 'keyboard warrior' in the defense of guinea pigs and trying to inform the public about their true needs. I've messaged CL ad owners, posted my own CL ads to help get information out there, and generally been very vocal whenever I see a guinea pig. I have been thanked multiple times for my efforts, and it was a gratifying experience both for the thanks, and for the people I had hoped I was helping.
It felt like I was making a difference. Ads with chicken wire were disappearing, and my flags were going through on flea market pet mills in the big city near me. However, it wasn't getting me any closer to finding her a companion... I had applied to crazy cavvies, but something (aside from the 6 hour round trip drive it would take to adopt one) kept me from adopting from them.
In the meantime, I was slowly digging into the plethora of 'extras' I had purchased for the advent of new piggies. Last week, I went ahead and gave Rosetta the extra large piggy hidey hole, with room for at least 3 piggies. I opened up new beco bowls, even the 'giant salad' one that practically doubled as a bed...for two pigs. A new fleece liner and everything!
About three days ago, I opened up the new loft kit I purchased from piggybedspreads. I was SUPER excited to get it put together and create the ultimate kitchen for Rosetta and her eventual friend(s). ...but there was a big hole in my plan... Apparently, piggybedspreads uses a custom (poorly) made type of grid. It's not nice, sturdy, metal with a thin coat of paint on it like I bought for the main cage. It's basically plastic with about 15 coats thick of cheap, smudgy paint. The kind you can stab through with a nail and scrape off just as easily. That was obviously a no-go, as one little nibble and that's going to be in Rosetta's mouth. While I've never seen her do that, I didn't know what the new pig(s) would do. The icing on the cake was that it was also too big, partly because of the thick and plastic nature of the grids. They didn't fit into the old grid...attacher thingys...and they barely fit into their own. There was no realistic way to attach the two different cage styles.
Of course, I emailed piggybedspreads to see if there was something we could do about a return, as they were just unacceptable, but as I didn't want to insult them, I stuck to just saying that they didn't fit on my current cage.
Defeated, and assuming that I wasn't going to have to worry too much about it since I hadn't found another piggy yet, I put it all back in the box and returned it to the storage under the cage table.
To be continued...
(Edit: Whoops, turns out I wrote over 21,000 characters for this blog entry...so it'll be a four parter, as the cap is 10,000 characters! ...so...more like 4 or 5 miles, eh? ^^;
A little while back, I lost one of my guinea pigs (Rogue) to what appeared to be the side effects of a stroke and natural selection. Since then, I have been seeking a companion for Rosetta, her daughter.
Throughout this journey, I have become a 'keyboard warrior' in the defense of guinea pigs and trying to inform the public about their true needs. I've messaged CL ad owners, posted my own CL ads to help get information out there, and generally been very vocal whenever I see a guinea pig. I have been thanked multiple times for my efforts, and it was a gratifying experience both for the thanks, and for the people I had hoped I was helping.
It felt like I was making a difference. Ads with chicken wire were disappearing, and my flags were going through on flea market pet mills in the big city near me. However, it wasn't getting me any closer to finding her a companion... I had applied to crazy cavvies, but something (aside from the 6 hour round trip drive it would take to adopt one) kept me from adopting from them.
In the meantime, I was slowly digging into the plethora of 'extras' I had purchased for the advent of new piggies. Last week, I went ahead and gave Rosetta the extra large piggy hidey hole, with room for at least 3 piggies. I opened up new beco bowls, even the 'giant salad' one that practically doubled as a bed...for two pigs. A new fleece liner and everything!
About three days ago, I opened up the new loft kit I purchased from piggybedspreads. I was SUPER excited to get it put together and create the ultimate kitchen for Rosetta and her eventual friend(s). ...but there was a big hole in my plan... Apparently, piggybedspreads uses a custom (poorly) made type of grid. It's not nice, sturdy, metal with a thin coat of paint on it like I bought for the main cage. It's basically plastic with about 15 coats thick of cheap, smudgy paint. The kind you can stab through with a nail and scrape off just as easily. That was obviously a no-go, as one little nibble and that's going to be in Rosetta's mouth. While I've never seen her do that, I didn't know what the new pig(s) would do. The icing on the cake was that it was also too big, partly because of the thick and plastic nature of the grids. They didn't fit into the old grid...attacher thingys...and they barely fit into their own. There was no realistic way to attach the two different cage styles.
Of course, I emailed piggybedspreads to see if there was something we could do about a return, as they were just unacceptable, but as I didn't want to insult them, I stuck to just saying that they didn't fit on my current cage.
Defeated, and assuming that I wasn't going to have to worry too much about it since I hadn't found another piggy yet, I put it all back in the box and returned it to the storage under the cage table.
To be continued...
