nibblesandcoco
Junior Guinea Pig
Hello everyone,
Yesterday morning, we unexpectedly found one of our sows, Nibbles, passed in her cage. The previous night she was showing no signs of acting different, so we were very surprised and are grieving. However, she left our other pig, Charlotte on her own, who is only 2 and a half. Nibbles was our 3rd pig and Charlotte is our 4th, so we've been through this before, and as soon as the remaining pig would show signs of loneliness, we would adopt another in order not to risk any health issues. But I live in New York, the US's epicenter for the Virus, and we are under a stay-at-home order. This is very tough as we are afraid of what will happen if Charlotte is left alone for too long.
As of now, she is eating and drinking and going to the bathroom normally. She spends a decent amount of time between her two hidey houses and comes out to eat and to greet us, and she is not acting too differently. Although when we found Nibbles, Char was staying far away from where she was laying and refused to go over there for hours. Maybe she had said goodbye hours before, since we have no idea when during the night Nibbles passed.
We have all been spending lots of time with her to help her through and have been monitoring all of her habits. Obviously we will be expecting some signs of grieving, I am just hoping it isn't too severe.
Is there anything more our family can do to help Charlotte in a time where we may not be able to adopt another pig? All we want to do is help her as much as possible without the ability to find her a friend for an unknown amount of time.
I also have always had trouble finding places to adopt guinea pigs in my area. Not a lot of shelters around here in general even have guinea pigs at all. I've also tried looking on Craigslist, Guineapigfinder, petfinder, etc. for people looking to rehome, to no avail. We have (unfortunately) gotten all 4 of our pigs from pet stores, because we were not able to find any up for adoption anywhere. Any other places that anyone could suggest I look would be amazing, although it may not be available to us for another month or two.
Yesterday morning, we unexpectedly found one of our sows, Nibbles, passed in her cage. The previous night she was showing no signs of acting different, so we were very surprised and are grieving. However, she left our other pig, Charlotte on her own, who is only 2 and a half. Nibbles was our 3rd pig and Charlotte is our 4th, so we've been through this before, and as soon as the remaining pig would show signs of loneliness, we would adopt another in order not to risk any health issues. But I live in New York, the US's epicenter for the Virus, and we are under a stay-at-home order. This is very tough as we are afraid of what will happen if Charlotte is left alone for too long.
As of now, she is eating and drinking and going to the bathroom normally. She spends a decent amount of time between her two hidey houses and comes out to eat and to greet us, and she is not acting too differently. Although when we found Nibbles, Char was staying far away from where she was laying and refused to go over there for hours. Maybe she had said goodbye hours before, since we have no idea when during the night Nibbles passed.
We have all been spending lots of time with her to help her through and have been monitoring all of her habits. Obviously we will be expecting some signs of grieving, I am just hoping it isn't too severe.
Is there anything more our family can do to help Charlotte in a time where we may not be able to adopt another pig? All we want to do is help her as much as possible without the ability to find her a friend for an unknown amount of time.
I also have always had trouble finding places to adopt guinea pigs in my area. Not a lot of shelters around here in general even have guinea pigs at all. I've also tried looking on Craigslist, Guineapigfinder, petfinder, etc. for people looking to rehome, to no avail. We have (unfortunately) gotten all 4 of our pigs from pet stores, because we were not able to find any up for adoption anywhere. Any other places that anyone could suggest I look would be amazing, although it may not be available to us for another month or two.
