Eriathwens piggies

Betsy said:
Ooo a floofy floofer!:love::love: What are you going to call her?
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She's amazing! I think if she's going to live with Misty she should be named Cloud ☁ (my daughter has a fantasy land with magic flying guineas that control the weather - she is Frosty who controls the frost, and she has lots of imaginary piggy friends including Cloud who covers the world below with a blanket of her soft tummy floof, which I can definitely see this new piggy doing!)
 
Just been doing her nails and my god. One wrapped around one of her other toes. Her back ones stick out at all angles, who knows what happened to them. Poor baby :( she's going to be absolutely spoilt rotten for the rest of her life. She has already made herself at home enough to pee in my lap haha

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piggieminder said:
Poor girl, she looks happy now though. Wht a sweet expression she has.
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She has the sweetest little face, such a lovely girl. Shes sat in her cage atm very scared, hasnt eaten since going in there but hopefully she will settle soon.

My vet has been away for a week but we'll be phoning to make an appointment for Tilly tomorrow, although they liekly wont have an available one for another week or so as he's been off, but we'll make one for Thistle at the same time to get his opinion on her toes, she feels like a water balloon shes so fat, if thats because she doesnt move much from pain in her feet we can hopefully get that sorted out for her.
 
She's done great overnight, ate her veg, poops everywhere so she's definitely been moving. She ate a bowl of grass this morning and I had her out to remove the last few mats around her bum, her foot spurs, gave her a good brushing and a cuddle. She was covered in scabs that seem to be bite wounds, none seem to have turned into lumps though luckily. She has already learned the joys of a chinrub :)

She was definitely kept somewhere small, she's a bit like a flying squirrel under all that hair with the biggest set of bingo wings I've ever seen on a pig! She has an appointment with Tilly on Monday for a full MOT and to have her poor little toes checked, only the first 2 on the right foot go the right way, the outer 2 point outwards and the other 2 on the left are completely rotated so the nails point under her belly poor little thing.

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Thankyou, this pig deserves every second of being spoilt bless her. I don't think I mentioned how much she weighed. 1360g! She is a long piggy but even so, that's far too big. Her poor belly drags on the ground so much the hair is rubbing off and is almost bald. That coupled with her sore feet seems to be why she lays down so much.
It's a terrible picture as I was trying not to spook her, but you can see just how obese she is here with her tummy bulge sticking out by her back leg! Once my vet has seen her feet and hopefully given the go ahead for lots of exercise we'll be working on slimming her down, poor baby :(

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She is such a sweetie, but that tummy looks really extended poor “little” lady x
 
It honestly breaks my heart that she has put up with such treatment for 2 years!
Absolutely any and all advice for helping her lose some weight is most welcome. She's down 20g already so we're getting somewhere, just very slowly.

I tried getting a picture of her belly and got peed on again for my trouble haha but she looks like a little teddy bear, she absolutely adores having her hair brushed. She is making progress every day, I can't wait to see how she is in a weeks time, a months time eye. I'm excited for her first wheel for her dinner, she doesnt wait for me to leave the room..or even finish putting it in the cage before shes tucking in now :)

Leonard's doing well too, hopefully I don't jinx it by saying so but we're on day 2 without Baytril and no pain still!

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Oh dear, if she’s was rescued from a school they were probably just letting all the children feed her, and because of her breed couldn’t see what was happening

I do like the name Thistle
 
That's what I was thinking, who knows what they were feeding her too! I have a feeling thats how her nails were missed by the lady that took her from the school too, just hidden under so much hair.
 
I really hope so. Although she has started to sneeze, I knew I didn't like how gunky her eyes were starting to look.. will get her into the vet tomorrow asap. Might as well keep the appointment she has with Tilly on Monday as it's a double appointment and all her other issues will need all that time 😅
 
What a beautiful floofy chubster! Well done for bringing her home, Jezzy floof was a similar size and shape when we first brought her home :(
Its actually amazing how easily Jezzy slimmed down with lots more exercise and hay, and very very limited pellets and only pepper and cucumber and assorted leaves for veggies, ditching the carrots and pellet overfeed made a huge difference! We did find for the first month though she got terribly out of breath and tired starting to exercise, walking 6ft she was panting and needing a nap. We used to make Jezzy do it though, waddle 6ft for one stem of coriander, then waddle 6ft the other way to get another one! And the poor feet may not recover fully, Jezzy had nails like that and actually the vet said her toe bones were mis-shapen not just the nails after 2 years of restricted movement carrying all that weight...
Best of luck with your fatty girl, I'm sure she'll slim down and tone up very fast with proper care!
 
That's good to know! She does seem to be slimming fairly quick, we're just back from the vets and she's already down to 1290g so that's 70g already! Although her poor feet do seem deformed.
She's got eye drops and Baytril for 14 days, if that doesn't work then we go back for sulfatrim and go from there.
The fat is definitely fat and not a build up of fluid, her scurfy skin will be from her rubbish conditions previously and should clear up in the next 6 weeks.
So other than being snuffly, fat and absolutely terrified..shes fine, there's nothing a bit of love won't fix :)
 
Aw thankyou all, she is already so very loved. And she seems to have forgiven me for taking her to the vet to be poked and prodded. She has a thing about resting her front feet on my arm, it's adorable. She still holds them pretty clenched but I've been massaging them, no idea at all if that will help but it doesn't seem to hurt so can't do any harm.
She's had her antibiotics and eye drops for the night which she was very well behaved for, although she's peed on me twice since getting her out.. seems to be her self defence mechanism 😅

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Eriathwen said:
Aw thankyou all, she is already so very loved. And she seems to have forgiven me for taking her to the vet to be poked and prodded. She has a thing about resting her front feet on my arm, it's adorable. She still holds them pretty clenched but I've been massaging them, no idea at all if that will help but it doesn't seem to hurt so can't do any harm.
She's had her antibiotics and eye drops for the night which she was very well behaved for, although she's peed on me twice since getting her out.. seems to be her self defence mechanism 😅

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I think foot massage is a great idea, Jezzy floof gets her crusty old curly toed feet massaged with Gorgeous Guineas F&M cream every weekend, she's got to rather enjoy it especially with a coriander bribe :)
 
I'm sure Shelly won't mind sharing her f and m ointment :)
I burst into tears earlier.. bless her heart she tried wheeking at veg time. It was only one, very quiet, experimental wheek, but it was a wheek none the less! Then, very proud of herself, she waddles to the front of the cage to get her dinner making happy, chatty noises :)

Some pictures of exercise time (look at that floofy bum!)

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Today was Tillys appointment, which was a difficult one as we went through all the pigs we have registered to remove the ones no longer with us..so that wasn't nice.

But on the plus side, Tilly is great! She currently hasn't got any cysts, lumps or bumps that he could feel and said she was in such good condition he could feel everything really well which was nice..at least I'm doing something right! 😅
The hormonal behaviour I'm seeing seems to be most likely behavioural, rather than hormonal...she just doesn't really know how to correctly interact with other guinea pigs coupled with either the neurological difficulties her e.cuniculi will be causing her or her feeling a bit vulnerable because of the EC issue and over compensating by being overly dominant..or a bit of both! So while there's not really much we can do about that, she at least *touch wood* doesn't need spaying..yet. If she gets worse in the next 3-6 months she will need to go back for another check for cysts.

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