little-laura
Wise Old Thumper
It was a long long time ago but.....
when I was 9-10 I had guinea pigs me and my sister bought one each from a breeder.... I feel very guilty about this now.... but didnt know about all these terrible things back then...
I bought a book which was full of misinformation which I didnt know at the time and we didnt have the internet.... so they were fed on a terrible diet....They didnt have enough space....
to top it off they were pregnant when we bought them we didnt know this till a few weeks later and they were incredibly young....... this makes me incredibly sad now... I didnt realise how bad this was for them to let it happen back then...
So they had three babies each but heres the awful part... we still kept them all in the same cage my aunt was friends with the breeder and so under their advice we didnt contact a vet and we kept the mothers in the same cage while they gave birth.... I feel sick typing this.....
they had the babies and when they were old enough we separated the boys and the girls thankfully all had survived....
as they grew we extended their living space giving them a run....
I ended up in hospital for a month mum came with me so did my sister and dad went to work then stayed at the hospital to at the family wing and so our neihbour looked after the piggies.....
she didnt clean them out enough but didnt tell us and cleaned them the day before we came home.
I later found out it had twice got to the point where maggots were crawling in their bedding before she changed it... if i had known this I would have taken them to the vets but she didnt say
few weeks later two of the piggies died they were under a year old.....
the vets quoted £120 to see the remaining 5 piggies so mum said it would have to wait 2 days for her to get the money together as she didn't havent it....
I got very ill one of the nights and had a fever... my parents stayed up all night with me and in the morning we found a fox had got into the shed.... non of the piggies were found
I will always feel guilty about all this... how ignorant we all were bout the care of piggies... how we treated them, the things we should have done but didnt..... how its all my fault they suffered......
I was kept awake last night remembering all this.... I had to get it off my chest.... I am the worst person ever...
when I was 9-10 I had guinea pigs me and my sister bought one each from a breeder.... I feel very guilty about this now.... but didnt know about all these terrible things back then...
I bought a book which was full of misinformation which I didnt know at the time and we didnt have the internet.... so they were fed on a terrible diet....They didnt have enough space....
to top it off they were pregnant when we bought them we didnt know this till a few weeks later and they were incredibly young....... this makes me incredibly sad now... I didnt realise how bad this was for them to let it happen back then...
So they had three babies each but heres the awful part... we still kept them all in the same cage my aunt was friends with the breeder and so under their advice we didnt contact a vet and we kept the mothers in the same cage while they gave birth.... I feel sick typing this.....
they had the babies and when they were old enough we separated the boys and the girls thankfully all had survived....
as they grew we extended their living space giving them a run....
I ended up in hospital for a month mum came with me so did my sister and dad went to work then stayed at the hospital to at the family wing and so our neihbour looked after the piggies.....
she didnt clean them out enough but didnt tell us and cleaned them the day before we came home.
I later found out it had twice got to the point where maggots were crawling in their bedding before she changed it... if i had known this I would have taken them to the vets but she didnt say
few weeks later two of the piggies died they were under a year old.....
the vets quoted £120 to see the remaining 5 piggies so mum said it would have to wait 2 days for her to get the money together as she didn't havent it....
I got very ill one of the nights and had a fever... my parents stayed up all night with me and in the morning we found a fox had got into the shed.... non of the piggies were found
I will always feel guilty about all this... how ignorant we all were bout the care of piggies... how we treated them, the things we should have done but didnt..... how its all my fault they suffered......
I was kept awake last night remembering all this.... I had to get it off my chest.... I am the worst person ever...
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