I make these! I designed it initially because a guinea pig owner had an elderly guinea pig that needed regular tooth filing. This guinea became nervous and stressed when towel wrapped so she asked me to design something.
It is basically piggie shaped and the beauty of it is that they can still move their front feet. So the elderly guinea could have her teeth filed and make vague gestures of not liking it but not actually struggle - a lot less stressed. The piggie owner I made it for was incredibly pleased and asked me to inform Vedra. She had done the rodentology course with her. I did so and was told back that Vedra likes to teach towel wrapping as everyone has a towel. Which makes perfect sense to me.
While i was designing this, and believe me it took a lot of development, my girls were subjected to regular 'trying on' sessions. Believe me when I say I love my piggies to bits and would never make them suffer in any way, I was looking for a low stress restraining item. And I do mean low stress.
It takes a bit of doing, inserting your piggie rear end first with the piggie laying along your hand is easiest, but once you've got the hang of it it really works. I've had people telling me that it has settled down biting piggies, been an enormous help with syringe feeding, and an Australian piggie regularly travels to the vet in hers. My own piggies tended to fall asleep while in these and complained when I got them out! So I too am amazed at the success - when I started Chucklebunnies I honestly never thought I'd be making anything like these. But they work and I regularly sell one or two, keeping the medium and large listings on all the time.
Fascinated to hear your comments, 'restraining' pocket is exactly what it is, but possibly not a very good name!
