Abandoned Piggy Needs Help!

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Hi again,

I've went to my friends house and we had a great time together. She has a cat and a guinea pig but it seems like they don't really care about the poor wee thing! This piggy lives outside all year round, the owners only clean the hutch every 2 months and the hutch is tiny! Her nails are severely overgrown and her water bottle is coated with grease and grime in the inside. They only give her little veg and hay a day and I feel this is horrible to even see a guinea pig in that state!

I told my mum about this and we discussed how we could help the abandoned wee piggy. I've talked to the owners about considering to give her to ASSISI the animal rescue but theyre reply was that the pig was feisty and too hard to handle. So we are considering to take her into our home and clean her up! give her the space and love she deserves for a couple days then give her to ASSISI and possibly tame her to humans before she goes. Unfortunately we cant keep her because we have two boys and if they smell her there's trouble!
So please give me hints and tips for this piggy when she comes to us and how to avoid the boys finding out shes there.

Thanks for your time!
 
I would just take her in and get her nail trimmed if you can and make her comfortable until she goes to the rescue. Keep her in separate room to the boys. Hope all goes well for this little piggy
 
oh how awful but I agree with Lee, the most important thing is to get this piggy out of that home asap. Even if you take her straight to the ASSISI without being able to cut her nails. Living in that situation is it really surprising that she is feisty and doesn't like being handled. Also she could have something wrong medically, mites etc which could make her harder to handle. I really hope you can help her
 
Well done for attempting to help her. I do so hope that they let you take her. Please keep us updated. These kind of stories are so heart wrenching.
 
Thank you for your support.

I have talked to my my friend and she is positive that her family doesnt want the piggy anymore and that they will offer the guinea pig to us which is good news so far. I was thinking, as soon as she gets home, that I would let her settle for a day then the next day I'll treat her with mites and give her a regular checkup also trimming the nails and adding vitamin C into her veggies. I dont know when we will be handed the guinea pig but hopefully ASAP for the whether here in N.I is worse than what it was through Christmas time... Probably windier than Scotland!
 
Well done for helping this little piggy, she will remember your love x
 
I've got bad news.... The owners have made a decision that they wanted to keep the guinea pig in these horrible conditions. According to them, shes fine the way she is! I'm just so upset to see a lonely guinea pig suffer like this! I wish I could do something but there really isn't anything to do.
 
Can you report to the RSPCA at all as what you have described does sound like animal abuse and they may be able to take action to help the piggy?
 
This is the PSNI advice on who to contact:

Animal Welfare and Wildlife

From what you've said it doesn't sound like they're meeting the needs of this poor pig at all. You talked about Assisi so I'm assuming you're in the North Down/Ards Peninsula area - if you'd like I can see about finding the appropriate numbers to contact?
 
Thanks for the help but I don't really want to report them because they are new guinea pig owners and don't know a lot. I had an old guinea pig book that I never used and it give really good advice on care and housing and health checks so I gave it to them and see if it makes any changes in the guinea pigs life. Basically I want to give them a chance to change things.
 
Can you show her this website? Maybe some of the others' set ups so they can see how it's done? Only cleaned out every 2 months? She must be living on layers of her own poo, soaked through with urine.
It's not fair on her to stay the way she is!
 
poor little pig.... not much of a life is it ? could you spend some time with your friend helping and showing her how to clean the pig out if nothing else ? it must really smell ... i know its a difficult situation but sounds like you are the only help for this little one...
 
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