Miss Piggy was rescued from a friends home. She had nothing but a tiny cage with barely any wood shavings let alone the right type, nasty and caked in everything. AND A HERMIT CRAB SPONGE. No food bowl, no water bottle let alone a bowl, never had hay or veggies and had been completely terrorized by them in every unimaginable way possible from letting the dog chase her to putting her in a bath tube for no reason but TO SCARE HER. I'm shocked she's not deaf from the music they had playing or could breath because this was a Halloween dress-up thing and there was a fog machine going right beside her cage, which I turned off cause I couldn't breathe. That's when I saw the cage, asked what was in it. "Guinea Pig some girl left here a few weeks ago. Said she'd come back for it and never did. She better soon." "Guinea Pig?" They let me hold her and when I put her back up she started wailing, I've never heard that noise still from her ever or any pig, I've searched and searched for it too. It was like desperation to me. When I saw that cage, finally, and her reaction...I started crying.. Took her that night and begun reading up on everything piggy. (Also ended a longtime friendship.) Since I had to wait till day break, I stayed up all night with her to make sure she was okay and didn't knock over the water bowl or run out of grasses from outside. I built her a cage from cardboard covered in vinyl and shelving from Lowes the next day with fleeces and hay, all the space I could give, a 4 x 2 at the time.
I just hope and hope and hope I NEVER FIND ANOTHER PIG LIKE THIS.
The only thing I can say is the reaction from a Guinea Pig that is a adult and never seen hay or veggies or a big soft cage...
It's enough to make you enraged and tearful in one go.
But it bonded us too. I won't doubt that.
Miss Piggy trusts me unconditionally.
She likes to climb up me and sit on my shoulder or neck and lick me wherever she can face, arms, neck, clothes she doesn't care as long as she's licking me.
If something is happening that's scary she doesn't hide, she looks at me.
If were outside she's at ease with her monster hovering beside her for protection to run to and hide under.
And I'm so proud. <3
But I will never I believe get her to relax on the floor. She's been too traumatized there I believe to recover from. She always looks scared. Even after all this time.
She just wants me to pick her up if she's on the floor, following my feets around and getting on them if she can to stop me crawling up my leg all at once. :/ Skittles helps, but she will always be afraid of the floor and I understand that now, it makes her uncomfortable and she doesn't like it or what it reminds her of.
What if's.. sigh...
Skittles was a gift from a friend for Miss Piggy on her 'Birthday'. For we both now have companion to play with.
Who's already becoming just as wonderful as Miss Piggy. Minus any previous fears, boisterous little girl. :3
And will be a beautiful story instead sad with one home forever.
As said above me actually, I will be traveling to Knoxville TN when adopting any new piggies in the future. It's the closes Guinea Pig rescue to me even if it's eight hours away. It doesn't matter to me. The 'rescues' (pounds) in my area don't even take in small animals I think. When I called looking for a friend for Miss Piggy they laughed at me and said go drive two hours to Petsmart we're not a pet store no one brings those here. I'm not playing or exaggerating either. Horrible place.