Lea - Molly's mum
Warren Scout
I'm sorry guys but this post may turn out to be a bit of a rant...
I went home this weekend for my mum's birthday and found that she had 'acquired' (being dumped with) a baby guinea piggy...well I say a baby piggy, my first question was 'is it a hamster?' because it was that small.
Turns out my sister's, boyfriends mum breeds guinea pigs (and now has got fed up and so wants to re-home over 50!
). This little guy is four weeks old but weighs less than 100g!!!
He was the runt of a litter of three boars, the mum died either straight after birth or at the very latest a week after birth and according to my sister the woman was 'too busy' to hand rear the three babies and because a local rescue had refused to take all 50 piggies she didn't think to ask if they would take the orphans. So the three babies were left with hay (i hope!), water and chinchilla food (no vitamin C here!) and were left in with the father!
By the time the baby made it to mum's it was 4 weeks old, apparently it's too bigger brothers were doing much better - but as i said he only weighed 100g. Mum had been told he was a 'grek' who was blind and couldn't walk properly so wasn't worth bothering with. Once we washed his eyes (which his mum would have done for him) he could see perfectly through his beautiful ruby eyes and once we had removed all the dried poo which had set and turned his feet into clubs (he was producing really soft poos due to his poor diet) he could walk fine too.
Mum and I spent most of the weekend with this little guy in our hands (where he would curl up and go to sleep and occasionally give you a quick lick-kiss), hoody pouches etc. because he was so frail and because he cried because he was so miserable when he was alone. A beanie hat has become a new snuggly bed for him and he has proper guinea pig food, greens and calcium supplement in his water. Mum says he is producing lots more poops but has yet to weigh him. She's even taking him to work with her so she can keep an eye one him.
Can everyone please keep him in their hearts because this poor little guy deserves so much better than his previous 'owners' were giving him.
Pictures of Ozzy (Ozzy Osborne hair) should be below...
I went home this weekend for my mum's birthday and found that she had 'acquired' (being dumped with) a baby guinea piggy...well I say a baby piggy, my first question was 'is it a hamster?' because it was that small.
Turns out my sister's, boyfriends mum breeds guinea pigs (and now has got fed up and so wants to re-home over 50!
). This little guy is four weeks old but weighs less than 100g!!!He was the runt of a litter of three boars, the mum died either straight after birth or at the very latest a week after birth and according to my sister the woman was 'too busy' to hand rear the three babies and because a local rescue had refused to take all 50 piggies she didn't think to ask if they would take the orphans. So the three babies were left with hay (i hope!), water and chinchilla food (no vitamin C here!) and were left in with the father!
By the time the baby made it to mum's it was 4 weeks old, apparently it's too bigger brothers were doing much better - but as i said he only weighed 100g. Mum had been told he was a 'grek' who was blind and couldn't walk properly so wasn't worth bothering with. Once we washed his eyes (which his mum would have done for him) he could see perfectly through his beautiful ruby eyes and once we had removed all the dried poo which had set and turned his feet into clubs (he was producing really soft poos due to his poor diet) he could walk fine too.
Mum and I spent most of the weekend with this little guy in our hands (where he would curl up and go to sleep and occasionally give you a quick lick-kiss), hoody pouches etc. because he was so frail and because he cried because he was so miserable when he was alone. A beanie hat has become a new snuggly bed for him and he has proper guinea pig food, greens and calcium supplement in his water. Mum says he is producing lots more poops but has yet to weigh him. She's even taking him to work with her so she can keep an eye one him.
Can everyone please keep him in their hearts because this poor little guy deserves so much better than his previous 'owners'
were giving him.Pictures of Ozzy (Ozzy Osborne hair) should be below...
