Fluffbabies
Forum Donator 2023/24
Hello everyone,
So we have found ourselves unexpectedly with a new arrival. By chance I found a six month old sow being offered for free online after her cage mate unexpectedly passed away. I was worried she would end up in the wrong hands so I messaged the owner and collected her.
According to her owner, her cage mate was a 1 year old sow who was fine the night before during cuddles and they found her passed the next morning. This was 11 days ago. They haven't done health checks before and they didn't look into why she passed. They have rabbits too but they're outside.
I checked this one is a sow. She came from Pets at Home and had been with the older one for 4 months. I gave her a health check all over including her lymph nodes and skin, and can't find any signs of her being ill. She's bright eyed, active and eating and I'm going to weigh her this morning. Her heft seems about right as in she doesn't seem underweight.
Our herd is downstairs in an open plan lounge diner. I was going to make her a little cage in the other part of the room for quarantine so they would be a few meters apart but she could hear my girls because she's been alone for 11 days. But that's not behind closed doors and because of how her cage mate passed, I made her a 2x4 C&C cage upstairs in our spare bedroom to quarantine her last night until I could ask for your advice.
I believe the owners when they say they handled her every day and she was inside in their kitchen so she has had human interaction but not guinea pig interaction. We could provide interaction but at the same time she is a bit scared with the new surroundings and new people so we don't want to stress her.
My question is... in this situation do we continue to quarantine her and for how long? I would have thought signs of something infectious would be visible by now but I'm well aware you can't always see any symptoms and piggies can pass within days of each other without seeming ill. I suppose I better get her checked out at a vet as well but I can't do that til tomorrow because of work.
So we have found ourselves unexpectedly with a new arrival. By chance I found a six month old sow being offered for free online after her cage mate unexpectedly passed away. I was worried she would end up in the wrong hands so I messaged the owner and collected her.
According to her owner, her cage mate was a 1 year old sow who was fine the night before during cuddles and they found her passed the next morning. This was 11 days ago. They haven't done health checks before and they didn't look into why she passed. They have rabbits too but they're outside.
I checked this one is a sow. She came from Pets at Home and had been with the older one for 4 months. I gave her a health check all over including her lymph nodes and skin, and can't find any signs of her being ill. She's bright eyed, active and eating and I'm going to weigh her this morning. Her heft seems about right as in she doesn't seem underweight.
Our herd is downstairs in an open plan lounge diner. I was going to make her a little cage in the other part of the room for quarantine so they would be a few meters apart but she could hear my girls because she's been alone for 11 days. But that's not behind closed doors and because of how her cage mate passed, I made her a 2x4 C&C cage upstairs in our spare bedroom to quarantine her last night until I could ask for your advice.
I believe the owners when they say they handled her every day and she was inside in their kitchen so she has had human interaction but not guinea pig interaction. We could provide interaction but at the same time she is a bit scared with the new surroundings and new people so we don't want to stress her.
My question is... in this situation do we continue to quarantine her and for how long? I would have thought signs of something infectious would be visible by now but I'm well aware you can't always see any symptoms and piggies can pass within days of each other without seeming ill. I suppose I better get her checked out at a vet as well but I can't do that til tomorrow because of work.