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New Born Pup
~!WARNING!~ LONG STORY:
A few years ago my parents and I bought our first guinea pig. My mother didn't want one but she changed her mind almost as soon as she held it and she came to love it. It was a male regular piggy. It was a little scared at first but soon we were able to hold it, pet it, let it run around the house and we had no problems. But the piggy was a little lonely when we all were out of the house (school/work) so my parents decided to surprise it (and me) by buying a female pig to keep him company. I didn't want a second pig but they were getting along so we kept it. The female pig was really scared of us though and we couldn't pet it. We tried to befriend it but it absolutely didn't wanna be touched. We soon gave up because we could pet the first pig and the second pig had the first one for company.
It turned out that the female pig had some illness from before we bought it and so the male one became ill as well. We treated both and they were healthy again. The two piggies never tried to make babies but they were always close to each other and slept in a yin and yang position (they were so cute!).
One day the male piggy (the first one) died for no apparent reason. It was only two years old and very healthy. The female pig was "crying" all night but then it went back to being quiet.
It's been around a year since then and it still won't let us touch it. It doesn't bite us or anything. It just runs away. Obviously we don't let it run around the house like we let the first one because catching it would be really hard. But sometimes when my mom cleans the cage she leaves the pig on the floor next to her and it doesn't even move from that spot. Sometimes it lets us touch it when we have a snack or something but it freezes on the spot.
I really don't know why it hates us so much; we were never mean to her. She has her hiding place and we feed her fresh fruit or veggies every day. She doesn't have Vitamin C deficiency either.
It's summer here right now and because the cage smelled a lot we keep it outside. My mom told me today that she doesn't want the cage to come back inside when winter comes because it smells and the piggy moves around at night sometimes and doesn't let her sleep (note that my mom is also a little allergic to guinea pigs). I couldn't just let the pig die from the cold though so I offered to keep the cage in my own room during the winter.
So, since I'll have her in my room for so many months I thought that maybe I could start over and make her like me. I started feeling really sorry for her and realized that her life must be very miserable since she's so lonely out in the balcony and her only friend died last year. It's really not her fault that she's kinda dumb and doesn't realize I don't wanna eat her. And she's really really cute too ^^
I'll get her a bigger cage and talk to her every day and try to make her eat snacks from my hand and stuff but those things didn't work before so is there anything else I can try?
PS: She's a little dirty because she's always in her cage and poops everywhere (even in the place she sleeps -.-). Is it safe to wash her? If yes how exactly am I gonna go about it?
A few years ago my parents and I bought our first guinea pig. My mother didn't want one but she changed her mind almost as soon as she held it and she came to love it. It was a male regular piggy. It was a little scared at first but soon we were able to hold it, pet it, let it run around the house and we had no problems. But the piggy was a little lonely when we all were out of the house (school/work) so my parents decided to surprise it (and me) by buying a female pig to keep him company. I didn't want a second pig but they were getting along so we kept it. The female pig was really scared of us though and we couldn't pet it. We tried to befriend it but it absolutely didn't wanna be touched. We soon gave up because we could pet the first pig and the second pig had the first one for company.
It turned out that the female pig had some illness from before we bought it and so the male one became ill as well. We treated both and they were healthy again. The two piggies never tried to make babies but they were always close to each other and slept in a yin and yang position (they were so cute!).
One day the male piggy (the first one) died for no apparent reason. It was only two years old and very healthy. The female pig was "crying" all night but then it went back to being quiet.
It's been around a year since then and it still won't let us touch it. It doesn't bite us or anything. It just runs away. Obviously we don't let it run around the house like we let the first one because catching it would be really hard. But sometimes when my mom cleans the cage she leaves the pig on the floor next to her and it doesn't even move from that spot. Sometimes it lets us touch it when we have a snack or something but it freezes on the spot.
I really don't know why it hates us so much; we were never mean to her. She has her hiding place and we feed her fresh fruit or veggies every day. She doesn't have Vitamin C deficiency either.
It's summer here right now and because the cage smelled a lot we keep it outside. My mom told me today that she doesn't want the cage to come back inside when winter comes because it smells and the piggy moves around at night sometimes and doesn't let her sleep (note that my mom is also a little allergic to guinea pigs). I couldn't just let the pig die from the cold though so I offered to keep the cage in my own room during the winter.
So, since I'll have her in my room for so many months I thought that maybe I could start over and make her like me. I started feeling really sorry for her and realized that her life must be very miserable since she's so lonely out in the balcony and her only friend died last year. It's really not her fault that she's kinda dumb and doesn't realize I don't wanna eat her. And she's really really cute too ^^
I'll get her a bigger cage and talk to her every day and try to make her eat snacks from my hand and stuff but those things didn't work before so is there anything else I can try?
PS: She's a little dirty because she's always in her cage and poops everywhere (even in the place she sleeps -.-). Is it safe to wash her? If yes how exactly am I gonna go about it?
