Having GP2 pts today - advice for GP3?

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6.5 years ago we got our 3 gps, all lovely girls, sisters, we lost one last year to cancer and the other two have both got tiny tumours but not bothering them at all, gp2 started losing weight a few weeks ago and I noticed a few balding patches too, otherwise fine and eating well etc, but yesterday hardly any food had been eaten overnight and on checking her she's dramatically thin since last week (I always give them a good check over once a week when I clean them out) and today she looks like her breathing is slightly laboured. I've made an appointment for this afternoon and I'm sadly not expecting to bring her home

So gp3 will be alone, any suggestions for how to make it easier for her to adjust please? I don't really want to get another as I know realistically she's unlikely to live very much longer herself, but I'd like her to be as happy as she can be. TIA

Would it be possible to approach a GP rescue and see if they have any other very elderly singletons, with the agreement that if GP3 goes first then the other elderly singleton will be returned to them?

I'm not sure if rescue centres normally do this, but it would seem to solve problems on both sides!

Our remaining guinea grieved when the other one died. It took him a week to eat properly again and he was still mopy. We actually brought him and his cage into the kitchen so he had lots of company- he lived another 6 happy months responding excitedly to the noise of the fridge opening in case it was rocket........

Thank you both - vet said to watch her eating carefully - so far she's scoffing everything in sight but obviously it'll take a while for her to realise her sisters gone they have always stayed outside all year round but we do have an indoor cage so when the weather turns I might bring her in as I don't like to think of her without anyone to snuggle up with in the cold weather. I was an emotional wreck at the vets but they were as always very kind - you never get used to it do you

Very but it is very difficult with a piggie that is 6+ yo.

Yes to bring her indoors, let her be in the noise and bustle.
I like mine in their Pighouse rustling through their bedding but once we get the a singleton (which I hope won't be for years, and your guineas have done sterling work getting to the age they are)....I will do a permenant change to indoors.
They do drive me batty when they are in for winter but I think its the messy hay that does it not the animals.

Give her a nice hidey house and let her be surrounded by the chat and bustle .

Definitely bring her inside to be with people. Whenever I've had a lone pig, it's taken them a while to get used to it. They were quiet and seemed depressed. We used to have them with us as much as possible - watching tv, doing homework etc. Just being in the kitchen where the noise was, with the radio etc really helped.

I'd have her inside where she can see and hear you/the fridge and just make a fuss of her.