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I got my piggies from Animal Lifeline, 2 girls who we called Natasha and Sparky. I've had them for 3 weeks now so thought it would be good to take them to the vet for a check up, just to make sure everything was ok.
Natasha weighed 9300g - a good normal piggy weight. Sparky weighs 6200g. They're the same age, sisters in fact. We've watched them and Natasha is most definitely the more dominant one, we've even seen her take food off Sparky. We thought this was normal, not realising how underweight Sparky is. But the Vet, and I, both agree that it probably goes on more then we realised and that Natasha hasn't been letting Sparky eat her fair share. Sparky's teeth are all normal and nothing else seems to be wrong, also lending weight to the idea that Natasha is basically bullying Sparky.
We have a C&C cage with an upstairs. Only Sparky likes going up there, Natasha hates it, so we're going to put food up there just for Sparky, also take her out before Natasha for floor time and let her get at the food first and hope this gets her weight up. We'll go back in 2 weeks to see it it's helping.
Has anyone else had a similar situation? What did you do?
I'm so worried about Sparky. :'(
Natasha weighed 9300g - a good normal piggy weight. Sparky weighs 6200g. They're the same age, sisters in fact. We've watched them and Natasha is most definitely the more dominant one, we've even seen her take food off Sparky. We thought this was normal, not realising how underweight Sparky is. But the Vet, and I, both agree that it probably goes on more then we realised and that Natasha hasn't been letting Sparky eat her fair share. Sparky's teeth are all normal and nothing else seems to be wrong, also lending weight to the idea that Natasha is basically bullying Sparky.
We have a C&C cage with an upstairs. Only Sparky likes going up there, Natasha hates it, so we're going to put food up there just for Sparky, also take her out before Natasha for floor time and let her get at the food first and hope this gets her weight up. We'll go back in 2 weeks to see it it's helping.
Has anyone else had a similar situation? What did you do?
I'm so worried about Sparky. :'(