I need help/advice for a very sad guinea pig

[gentle giants]

Ok, here are the pics! I took these last night a little after they got their veggie bowl.

Patches: "Are you sure there are no more veggies?"

"Just double-checking..."

And the new baby, whom my son has named Blackberry:

 

[irishbunny]

Aww they are beautiful

 

[irishbunny]

Aww they are beautiful

 

[luvthempigs]

Oh my goodness, What a couple of cutie pies you have there :hearts

I just love guinea pigs, not a mean bone in their bodies (for most of them anyway) I hope things continue to go well for your children and their new pets. Just be careful though...Once a guinea pig owner always a guinea pig owner! lol

 

[gentle giants]

Oh, I have wanted one for years, LOL. I just managed to talk my DH into getting two on the pretense of getting them as pets for the kids.
:wink

 

[JadeIcing]

I love them but so won't own them again.

 

[gentle giants]

Really? Why not?

 

[JadeIcing]

Just wasn't the right pet for me.

 

[MiniLopHop]

They are sooooo cute! :inlove:

I had GP as a pet when I was a kid. We went on vacation and my stupid parents thought they could be on their own for a week. We came home to both (mine and my sister's) dead. They had tipped over their water at some point and then had to go without in the summer. It was so traumatizing I don't think I could ever have another.

 

[luvthempigs]

gentle giants wrote:

Oh, I have wanted one for years, LOL. I just managed to talk my DH into getting two on the pretense of getting them as pets for the kids.
:wink

LOL! I can't use that excuse since I don't have any kids

 

[luvthempigs]

Wait til they understand what the sound of the refridgerator opening or the sound of the cutting boardmeans.

There will be all kinds of wheeking going on :biggrin2:

 

[gentle giants]

Oh yeah, they already know that! The kids feed them their pellets and hay, but I do the veggies since that involves using a knife. I am gone two evenings a week right now, my Dh says that they start wheeking as soon as my headlights shine in the living room window! :rollseyes

 

[myheart]

gentle giants wrote:

Oh yeah, they already know that! The kids feed them their pellets and hay, but I do the veggies since that involves using a knife. I am gone two evenings a week right now, my Dh says that they start wheeking as soon as my headlights shine in the living room window! :rollseyes

That is soooo funny!!! :biggrin: Piggies are so smart when it comes to snacks and play-time. I usually let Harley and Victor out to play in the ex-pen first.Sean knows that when I gather those two up, it's his and Colin'sturn to play. You should hear the wheeking that goes on then!! Sean is so excited about play-time, that his wheeking is almost deafening. Notforgetting to mention how cute his pudgie tummy looks all pressed to the cage wires waitingfor me to pick him out.

I so love my little rescue boyz. I don't think I would have it any other way, knowing I saved my boyz from the"back room."

I am so glad you posted pics of your piggies. They are so sweet looking! Are they getting along fine enough to be housed together?

myheart

 

[gentle giants]

You know, I am not sure actually. They were doing really great for several days, so I went ahead and moved them in together. But now Patches is following Blackberry all over the cage, constantly doing that rumble/sway thing that is supposed to be a courtship thing, and was mounting Blackberry yesterday. I am about 99% sure that they really are both girls, but I have only had females, so I actually don't know what guinea pig boy parts look like, LOL. Does anyone have a link that I could look at to make sure they are both girls?

 

[irishbunny]

That is normal behaviour, just showing who is boss.
They are easier to sex then rabbits. I sexed guinea pigs correctly the day they were born, and I had never even seen guinea pigs babies before.

Www.cavyspirit.com/sexing.htm

This site helped me a good bit.