Shit... 99% sure Guinea Pig is pregnant

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Bit of a disaster... I lost one of my two lovely girls at the start of December. We were devastated, they were like two peas in a pod. I had a post on here at the time.

After just over a week I figured I needed to get another Guinea pig to keep my remaining one happy. Bought from a pet store as we don't have any rescues.... and I'm 99% sure the baby is pregnant 😡

Can't get her in to see the Vet until Tuesday morning.

She's had no vet care during pregnancy, haven't been feeding her any supplements. She was 8 weeks when she came to us, so young to be having babies. We've had her 55 days.

What the hell do I do now?

Oh, they are just too adorable. You are keeping them al, right, OP?

Found this thread last night and 100% not going anywhere. I will need piggy updates for the rest of my life!

I had no idea baby piggies came out looking so perfect! Just adorable!! Well done Mummy Pig! And you - you sound like the best piggy owner over!!!

Love this thread. I’m so invested in the babies futures now! I bloody love Guinea Pigs and miss my Milly and Molly pigs. They do take a lot of looking after though and need lots of attention and company.

Thank you for sharing the photos, they are gorgeous!

I love that you're weighing to monitor them OP, bless your wonderful heart!

I was thinking a little webcam would be very helpful for all of us godmothers to keep an eye on them when home alone but quickly realised that would be a terrible idea as no doubt we'd all be sacked for not concentrating at our day jobs!

Have you finalised names yet? Surely their Little Red Books need names on??

Can I just say this has been the most wonderful post. I love your love of guinea pigs! Often Mumsnet threads can have some awful comments in, but it's been so refreshing to see everyone sharing the love. They are gorgeous, well done mum and well done you.

Just emailed Mumsnet (withdrawing a very tired reply on here that didn't make sense), and asked how you get threads moved to Classics.

"You certainly aren't the only MNer to have nominated this lovely thread and it's already on our list for consideration of the Mumsnet Classics Committee! ...
But if any other MNer would like to nominate the thread, they can do this by either hitting report on the opening post or by dropping us a mail at [email protected] and we'll add their nominations to the growing pile... "

MN HQ poster added she was a GP fan and owner herself :-)

Mummy Pig, you're FAMOUS :-)

You mean 'pignorant' !

They are so cute 🥰 I have always wanted Guinea pigs. As a child I grew up with dogs, cats, rabbits and hamsters. My children have had hamsters (as I’m a bit of an expert on them now!) and I contemplated getting GPs but I know from extensive research how demanding they are and I sadly don’t think my DH would be on board with them 😞 We just have a beautiful cat now but it’s lovely seeing your thread. Do keep us updated OP x

Ta-daaaah! And now you're in Classics for ever and ever.

Happy to admit it!

Yes…we lived on the edge of a farm and our female rabbit got out.
Obviously had a great time out in the fields…bunnies born without us knowing!

( the farmer thought it hilarious, us ‘townies’ with no clue - he bought us a Christmas present ‘101 Rabbit Stories’! 😂)

Ooooo well done! You made classics!

Hurrah!! Immortal fame unlocked 😂

Just me hoping this is the beginning of a guinea pig dynasty?

Thought this would be appropriate

They are so cute 😍

Oh my goodness! Ladies, we made the Classics!!! 😅

I'm way more chuffed about this than I have right to be 🤣

Thanks so much everyone for all the advice, concern, love and joy that you have shared on this thread... it really has been the best place to be on MN this past week and has helped me, and unexpected Guinea Granny, more than you can imagine... you're all just so fabulous ❤️

And Momma is just delighted that she, and her brood, are now famous! 😅

(These photos were way more difficult to take than you could imagine... we did our best! 🙈)

This is so funny 🤣🤣🤣

Oh they are so cute . I hope you're keeping the little family .

Thank you so much for all the photos. Have you ever read the World's End series by Monica Dickens by any chance? She is Charles Dicken's very talented granddaughter and she wrote some captivating books about a family of children who rescued lots of animals and I seem to remember that 'gine piges' featured in that.

Love it :-)

P.S I even showed my nieces the baby pictures in a zoom today (although they're more hamster girls :-) )

Awww, little cuties.

I’ve never been so invested in a thread in my life! Never even held a gp in my life 😂

anyway, just wanted to say they are very cute and I hope you keep the updates coming ☺️