Long story short, my neighbour has had 6 guinea pigs die in the space of 2 weeks.
She got her first 2 guinea pigs about 4 months ago and I always saw her out in the garden cleaning their hutch, giving them food and water and taking them inside to play. I was shocked when she told me the first two died 2 weeks ago but didn't think anything of it.
Fastforward to Saturday and she had 2 new guinea pigs. Unfortunatley they died on Tuesday, I was concerned both for my neighbour and the guinea pigs that had died and did some research but saw they are quite fragile so put it down to stress or something. I did speak to my neighbour and she told me she holds them too tight sometimes. My neighbour has learning difficulties and so I told her care worker so they could keep an eye on things.
Wednesday she came home with 2 new piggies, they died last night.
My neighbour doesn't seem too upset about the last 4 guinea pigs that died and tells me very detailed accounts of how they all died. I am concerned that she may be accidentally hurting them and thus the piggies are dying. I raised my concerns with their care worker again today and asked if she was getting any more to which they said no, but she will be getting a rabbit. I later spoke to another of her care workers who had the same worries as myself and told me lots of the staff were suspicious that the deaths weren't natural. Why buy her more animals then!!!
I considered calling the RSPCA but the animals were well looked after from what I could see and other than my neighbour saying she holds them too tight I havent seen/heard of any abuse. Plus the guinea pigs have been disposed of so they can't investigate what happened.
AIBU to be worried about the safety of the soon to be new pet?