GP7 has crossed The Bridge

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GP7 has handed in her BASIL Card (Brave Ailing Sows Illness League) and used our RBT (Rainbow Bridge Tag)
Honestly , I feel like I should have some sort of Rainbow Bridge
discount card , I've lost 3 middle aged hogs in the last 6 months

GP7 had been acting a "bit weird" , not ill, but she was hiding under her fleece yesterday and wheeking when I went into her room. When I peeled back the fleece she was looking up at me "Where's brekkie you shirker" ?

DD found her under the fleece again - she had a fleece cover on her cage . We decided not to give her a box because we were giving her hay again (which she was delighted with) after her eye injury.
She ate her supper and breakfast as usual , her appetite and pooh output never wavered .

She recovered well from her eye ulcer and had the all clear from the vet on Friday. I mentioned to DH yesterday about the burrowing under fleece and said "It would be typical after all she's been through" and she did.

She was found in her cage , little back legs stretched out . Must've been during the night .

Bye Bye litle tri-colour piggie . Off to find GP6 (her PigHusband) and GP8 (her cagemate who was with her when we got them)

Run free GP7 🌈🌉
Sorry for your loss

Thank you Warm

I love the casual way she went without ceremony , DD fed her and changed her bedding last night . Then GP7 slips off with a I'll just leave this here attitude to her body .

(Bit like the last bit in Watership Down where the Black Rabbit visits Hazel .....)

Bless her, hope your DD is coping okay.

Properly shocked and saddened to read about GP7. I thought once over the eye ulcer she would carry on for a good while yet.

The piggie we looked after last year whilst friends were on holiday also died suddenly last week. So the second piggie loss I’ve heard of this week.

Run free at the Bridge GP7 and for 70 and her DD

Thanks fortified

I was hoping she'd have a good few nice grazing weeks to look forward to.
Maybe the combination of the last few months (loss of GP8/marrying GP6/loss of GP6) and her eye problem caught up with her ?

I was relieved that we didn't have to make a decision (PTS) if she fell ill, she was fine at her Vet check and happy helping DD with homework , sitting on DD bed on a puppypad. Her eye was really good and she seemed to have regained most of her sight (though with a piggie I don't think sight loss would hamper them too much )

She just sidled off , there was nothing instrinsically wrong but maybe at nearly 5 she just thought it was time ?

I was on leave today so I sorted out her fleeces and boxes (to dispose) and washed her metal bowls (for the charity shop)

I'm going to put the cages and runs in the garage (not thinking about more pigs ) till I decide what to do with them.

DH wants some cats ..................................I'm on the fence (I like cats but our house isn't cat ready)

Oh 70 I am so sorry to hear this. Just when GP7 was nicely settling into life as an only pig.
Best way to go though, quietly without fuss, full of hay and homework done xxx
💐 For you and DD

Thanks East

GP7 has pulled up the drawbridge and officially declared that no more pigs are allowed to cross The Bridge for a good long while.

How is Nessa faring ? Hopefully her rump has healed and the fur should grow back nicely .

DD has to do her homework on her own now (not that I think for one minute that GP7 was telling the truth when she claimed to be a qualified lawyer . Though GP1 helped her with her Amazon River Project in Yr6 because "'pigs are native to South America and know all about the Amazon" ................. she got 98% for that , not sure how much was Pig Input

So sorry to hear this 70. It's lovely that she went in her own way and without any trauma. It's sad to think you're not going to have pigs. Who will eat the lions? Or mow the lawn? . Hopefully GP7 managed to impart her legal knowledge to your DD before she pootled over the bridge. My DDs grades slipped after Smoothpig went (he was the intelligent one!).

Thanks Fernie

It will be odd to be without piggies, DD came downstairs this morning and picked up a piggie dish before it dawned on her.....

Dh will have to employ the Electric Guinea-Pig for the lawn and won't have me shrieking at him "Leave the bottom of the garden for the pigs"

I will not miss the hay strewn carpets though

Oh so sorry to hear about another departed GP...they are so wee and defenceless that it is hard to take when the shuffle over the bridge. My thoughts are with you. There's a GP shaped hole in our house too, and now I've dismantled the cage the kitchen looks too big. And I keep on going to buy spinach at the shops for no reason.

So sorry to read this, 70

I'm a bit of a lurker in this forum, but have always loved reading about your GPs.

to you and DD

Oh 70 I am sorry to hear that. to you all.

Thank you good , sign and accio

It has been very strange this week without the noisy little soul in the next room, she liked to chew her water bottle at 3am for her own amusement .

She died with her back legs stretched right out and her right front leg to the side like she was reaching out for the last of the pies but couldn't quite make it . (GP4 died in a similar leg stretched position. With her she'd been unwell , on the day she died my DH had been working at home and kept checking her . GP4 died an hour or so after DD got home from school )

Trying to find a burial box for an elongated guinea-pig .....! Much easier when I could arrange them like a little croissant .

We buried her today (she was residing in the Pighouse where it is cooler) . We put her facing GP8 (her original cagemate) and GP6 ( her Golden Years Husband) .

Our garden resembles Pet Sematary . 3 boars on the left, 4 sows and a boar on the right .
And the body of our old cat , keeping check on them

Sorry to hear that 70

It feels somehow comforting to have them all buried in the garden. We have similar in our garden- cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, even the fish are buried out there!

We've only had ours a little while, but they work their way into your hearts (and fridges) very quickly, don't they?!

More for you.

So sorry to read this. Sending more 💐. I hope this won't really be the last piggy. x