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What adventure has your Super Furry had today

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fortifiedwithtea · 31/01/2013 19:45

Its been a sad start to 2013 for guinea pigs so I thought we all needed cheering up by sharing our stories of what our furry members of the family have been doing. This thread is open to all buns, ratties, piggies, hammies the more the merrier Smile.

I'll start, Naughty Girl did this afew days ago but the girls have been very lazy today.

I had the hutch door open to encourage abit of floor time. My kids are not very tidy and had left a package of biscuits out. What I didn't realise was that they had been knocked off the table. Then I heard a crunching sound coming from behind the armchair. There was Naughty Girl chomping down on a package of digestive. In surprise I said her RL name quite loudly and she went running under the hutch with a please don't be cross with me look on her face. Needless to say biscuits in the bin Grin

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fortifiedwithtea · 21/03/2013 00:02

Shock Phew lucky escape for rattie!

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FernieB · 22/03/2013 14:48

Very lucky rattie!

70 - I don't even need to move the pigs things around to confuse them. If I just clean them out or even add more hay, they are completely bewildered Confused

Have just cleaned them out and realised that it's not just their cage which is smelling ripe. Am now pysching myself up for bath-time. I've decided to wait until my DD's come home from school and then we can set up a production line - one with bath, one with towel and one with hairdryer. Parsley will, of course, be available at each location Grin. Current bun can watch and laugh as he never needs a bath.

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fortifiedwithtea · 05/04/2013 17:56

The fortified pigs have had their nails done. I got settled with the clippers and a bowl of cucumber and DD2 brought Fatimus to me first.

Inbetween mouthfuls and wriggling she screamed like she was being murdered. But she could still eat at the same time Wink and I didn't nick the quick so it didn't hurt. After a cuddle, more cucumber and a few judgey looks, she went back to the hutch.

Then out came Naughty Girl. I swear Fatimus shrieked "Its a trap, don't be fooled by the cucumber!" Naughty was surprisingly good. No screaming. Ate her cucumber nicely. Only game she played was stretching her leg out really far, then just as I was about to clip a nail, springing it back close to her body. But I was feeling chuffed, all done, no blood loss me or them.

But then Naughty Girl took her revenge on me. Suddenly she stopped eating cucumber. As much as I tried, her little mouth had clamped shut. A funny look appeared in her eye. And it happened. A warm damp feeling in my lap Sad. Yep to a guinea revenge is a dish best served as a warm puddle of pee Grin.

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 05/04/2013 19:10

Aaah yes, the Guinea Revenge.
So much better than a bite. Can't accuse them of nastiness and the after effects and inconvenience lasts much, much longer.

Also works wonders just after a bath too- when you've changed towel 1 (which gets soaked) for towel 2 to rub them down while wafting the hairdrier.

We did the boars nails last week, I make DD hold them so that she'll get peed she's ace.GP1 throws his head back to poke his nose in her ear "Mum,mum, don't let the old bag get me"

GP2 looks judgey and grabs his feet back.
They are both smarting that she said they had leathery feet Shock and if I had to take them to the vet for nail cutting I'd take it out of their pocket money.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 06/04/2013 12:22

The boars are having their first grass-time (while DH mends the roof on their Pighouse)
I put a cardboard hiding box and a fleece in the run for them.
But all we can see are two guinea rumps tootling around and two guinea faces furiously chomping through the grass (like they've been staaaarved for the past week)

They'll get put in the Pighouse as soon as it's done- don't want them to overdo it .Catching them is DDs job Grin

StitchAteMySleep · 06/04/2013 19:13

Well I have just caught my smallest eating my Wellington boots, so I am hoping that she will poo it out ok.

Will have to keep an eye on her.

They had Excel nature treats, watermelon and lettuce to snack on. Not quite sure why she preferred the taste of old boot Hmm

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 07/04/2013 00:48

Stitch my guineas I had as a child used to eat everything.
Books. Clothes. Wool Carpet .
And their speciality- shoe laces- they chopped them from the eyelet, and took the whole thing including the little plastic end bit.
It didn't seem to do them any harm (but oviously not recommended).

My little GP2 chews all cardboard and paper so I need to make sure there's no sellotape, he's got no qualms chewing on that Hmm .
Silly Piggy that he is.

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fortifiedwithtea · 08/04/2013 00:13

DH gave the lawn its first cut today (sunday I know I'm posting late). The piggies got very excited wheaking. DH left the bit under their run for them to mow. But when I tried to get them out the hutch the silly girls both hid in the plastic flexi tube. So I picked up the tube with them both in it and carried them outside. I have to say they looked pretty startled but DD1 was hurrying us up for retail therapy at Lakeside. 70 can you feel my pain Wink. So when came back several hours later and very much poorer Hmm the guinea girls had done a good job on their bit of lawn Smile

Stitch how are you piggies after eating the wellingtons. Have they passed any rubber bullets yet?

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StitchAteMySleep · 08/04/2013 10:09

She seems fine, little minx :)

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fortifiedwithtea · 08/04/2013 11:05

That's good to hear Smile

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 08/04/2013 18:43

Oooh yes fortified
Lakeside
Daughters
Endless demands on money
Primark (DD second home) Subway Hot chocolate at Costa.............weeps

I feel your pain.Wink

The boars were lardying about in their run yesterday. We gave then a long cardboard box with 2 doors cut. And a fleece.
They must've felt quite safe and relaxed, GP1 was laid out on his side enjoying the weak sun.
(I had to get DD to go and prod check on him, they're meant to be shy prey animals )

PickledMoomin · 08/04/2013 20:16

He's tasted Ribena for the first time.

Poor little piggie damaged his eye mid week. He had to have his eyeball removed on Friday and is now on antibiotics which he hates. The vet said to add undiluted Ribena. He loved it, but his little white face is now stained purple Grin

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 08/04/2013 21:22

Poor Piggie - how old is he?

It's a huge ordeal for him to go through but hopefully he'll feel 100% better after the surgery.
Fingers/ Paws crossed for Friday PickledPiggie

PickledMoomin · 08/04/2013 21:36

He's already had the op. It's very neat actually and he seems to have bounced back very quickly (unlike my bank balance!)
He's under 2.
I don't want to give him a wash because I'm worried about his eye so he'll have to have a purple face for a bit longer Grin

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fortifiedwithtea · 08/04/2013 21:57

PickledMoomin just want to reassure you that PickledPig will do very well with just one eye. My old boar went blind in one eye and after a couple of days he was wandering about like his old self.

70 Naughty Girl has been snuggled up in a Primark bag full of hay all day. I think she thinks it's a cave Smile

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MintyyAeroEgg · 08/04/2013 22:01

Aww, my Peggy went out on the grass for the first time this year on Sunday! She LOVED it. And then she got some raw green beans for dinner as we were having them with our roast dinner.

She was a pig in clover on Sunday Smile.

PickledMoomin · 08/04/2013 22:06

It's still quite cold, windy and damp here (about 8degrees) so I haven't let my boys go in their run yet. Do you think they'd be okay for an hour? Once piggie's eye has recovered?
They did have some natural herb garden stuff earlier which they were very excited about, but I know they'd prefer the run.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 08/04/2013 22:28

Our lawn was dry, I gave the boars a big box and a fleece. They had maybe an hour- 90 minutes on Sat & Sun.
But if it's at all damp don't risk it.
Plenty of grazing days to look forward to.

Does your LittleBoy appreciate all the worry (and money) you're languishing on him?

Probably will end up shouting "What, no Ribena" when you try to wean him off it.

(Handy to know though if I try to dose my boys up with Vit C. I can dissolve it in Ribena and syphon it into them)

PickledMoomin · 09/04/2013 07:23

He doesn't seem to care. He hasn't figured out that he can't see me from one side yet. I wonder how poor his sight was to start with.

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fortifiedwithtea · 09/04/2013 13:14

To be honest piggie sight is not that great at the best of times. They more than make up for it with brilliant sense of smell and hearing. Try opening the fridge door with them in the next room and the response is Wheak, Wheak,Wheak!

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KRITIQ · 09/04/2013 17:14

Aw bless, I've had two piggies that have had eyes removed and both did fine afterwards.

Me, DH and the DBoars have been away to a castle in the Scottish Borders!

DBoar 1 grazing on the lawn

DBoar 2 climbing up the fountain

DBoar 2 posing nobly at the base of the fountain

Grazing in the Borders

KRITIQ · 09/04/2013 17:14

Perhaps should be renamed the "Boar-ders" :)

KRITIQ · 09/04/2013 17:16

Oops - wrong link for the third photo above. This is the correct one!

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fortifiedwithtea · 09/04/2013 21:28

Aw lovely photographs as ever Kritiq Smile Hope you all had a good holiday.

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 09/04/2013 21:34

My DD was admiring your hog photos.
Your boys look very relaxed and at home in their palatial surrounding it has to be noted.

Your smooth coated tri-colour guinea is the colour that she 'saw' herself with when we were thinking of guinea-pigs (my first pig was the same colour but Abby coated. So she probably coveted him). DD boar has the same face as your DBoar2 but without the white chin.

Lovely photos, lovely boys.