Betsy's Guinea Pigs

Awwww she just licks it up! Good girl xx. She’s very sweet!
 
Merab's Slave said:
The GPU and probably GPFANS as well are going to have to step in.
We can’t have traumatising of gorgeous piggies going on here.
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To my dear bestest friend Lexi

All three of us had to go through the trauma of nail cuts today. I sat calmly and had a chat with Son No 3 Slave while Slave cut my nails and got a nice treat of lettuce afterwards for being a good girl, Meg tried to escape from Son No 3 Slave and ended up being wrapped up like a sausage roll tightly in a blanket and got a nice treat of lettuce afterwards for being a good girl, you on the other hand sat still because you were frightened and just let Slave cut your nails to get the whole horrible distressing experience over as quickly as possible. You were so traumatised by the end of it that you couldn't even bring yourself to eat the nice treat of lettuce for being a good girl.

Now you know that we will have to go through this again as we don't want our nails to turn and inwards and hurt our feet so unfortunately we'll just have to learn to put up with it but we can make our Slave pay for the indignity for having a mani pedi.

What we need to do is:-
  1. Keep really quiet when Slave comes into the garage as this will worry her.
  2. Don't come up to the hutch door and ask for food (I know this is hard but needs must).
  3. Keep as far away as possible in the run when Slave needs to put us back in the hutch for dinner veg and make it really hard for her to pick us up by refusing to go in any hidey as we know she doesn't stand a chance of catching us otherwise.
  4. When veg dinner arrives we mustn't help ourselves from the bowl first but go and hide in the corner of the hutch and make Slave coax us with hand fed morsels of veg. I'm sure she'll like that!
  5. Decide a secret signal between us so that we can make a co-ordinated bum turn round all at the same time.
Yours hoping that this will make our Slave realise that what she has done we didn't like

Your very best friend
Thea
Shop Steward of the GPU
 
Last night for the first time Lexi had a cuddle without being covered up! Her eyes weren't all wild and scared looking either. I did carry her to and from the hutch in a snuggle sack so she felt safe while being carried. She runs away like mad when I tried to pick her up and I have to coax her into the snuggle sack. She is the most skittish piggie I've ever owned. I think she's now ready for a cuddle every few nights.
 
rp1993 said:
Gorgeous girls 😍
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Roselina said:
They are gorgeous girlies 🥰
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Jamston said:
What beautiful piggies 😍
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Thanks, they are very gentle girls.

Lexi is most appealing to look at but is still very wired and wild (when I adopted her and Thea 10 months ago she was EXTREMELY wired and wild) and Lexi and I have worked hard together to get her to where she is today. She can now have cuddle time not covered up for around 5-10 minutes before she had to be almost completely covered. There is no way she will let me stroke her in the hutch.

Thea of the funky fringe is a lot less skittish and will now let me stroke her in the hutch. Now that Thea is a lot more trusting of me than she used to be I've discovered that she just loves a nose stroke.

I can't pick either of them up unless it's in a hidey.
 
Yesterday, Shy Little Meg had to helped over the Rainbow Bridge. She'd not been right for 5 days, she'd stopped eating, didn't want syringe food or even her Metacam. She just gave up and looked completely miserable so with a heavy heart I took her for her final vet visit.

Meg was a shy but feisty girl who loved life and hay. She loved everything about hay from a very early age. She loved eating it, hiding in it, playing in it, pooping and weeing in it and sleeping in it. If there was any hay around, Meg would be there. Here she is about 2 weeks old in the hay holder that she'd jumped into to eat hay.


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Goodbye my darling Meggypops and have fun at the Rainbow Bridge with your Mum, brothers and Aunty Betsy.
 
I’m so sorry Meg had to popcorn over the bridge. Shes back with her piggy family again. ❤️
 
So sorry to hear about Meg.
Huge hugs to you.
Popcorn free little Meg reunited with your family at the rainbow 🌈bridge.xx
 
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