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Post by chantel on Nov 26, 2022 8:45:00 GMT
Yes when I take them there salad and rustle the bag they start making a popping noise and start jumping up and down apparently it’s called pop corning.🐹
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Post by scallywag on Jan 15, 2023 7:50:34 GMT
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Post by lotsofcats on Jan 15, 2023 23:14:48 GMT
I was wondering how Mabel and Moonlight were. And Rocky.
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Post by chantel on Jan 16, 2023 12:21:39 GMT
Has you can see Mabel has really grown her hair is getting quite woolly and curly she is friendly and wais to be picked up for snuggles 🐹
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Post by chantel on Jan 16, 2023 12:23:19 GMT
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Post by chantel on Jan 16, 2023 12:34:06 GMT
And moonlight in her little house that hubby made for her from a shoe box 📦 moonlight is the one with so much personality she wasn’t too keen on being picked up but is slowly getting better 🐹they are really funny in a morning they both come to the front of the cage squeaking for their breakfast 🐹they are both so loveable ❤️ We managed to trim their nails yesterday - I was dreading it but they were really good. (Vets were going to charge £26:50 each 🙈) We get them out in an evening and put them in their pen so they can have a run around for a couple of hours 🐹 they go crazy doing zoomies 😂they are 2 very spoilt little pigs 🐹 Rocky is doing great lotsofcats he seems to be quite settled in now - we don’t normally see him in the day but he is very active during the night time 🐠
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Post by lotsofcats on Jan 16, 2023 14:45:47 GMT
Aw, Mabel and Moonlight are so cute, I'm glad you are both enjoying them. That's unbelievable how much the vets wanted to charge for each of them to have their nails trimmed. When I showed my cat Blackberry I used to take her to the vet to have her claws trimmed as I was afraid to do it. On the last visit they forgot to trim the dewclaws so I had to do them. Glad that Rocky is well.
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Post by chantel on Jan 24, 2023 13:05:47 GMT
Mabel enjoys apple as a treat 🍏 her hair seems to get thicker every day 🐹
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Post by lotsofcats on Jan 24, 2023 16:17:05 GMT
They both have beautiful coats - do you have to brush them much?
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Post by chantel on Jan 24, 2023 17:41:29 GMT
I’m still trying to introduce brushing 😀Mabel doesn’t mind too much but moonlight is not keen 🐹hubby normally holds them and I gently brush them to try and get them used to it - moonlight does a lot of squeaking 🤣we did manage to trim their claws though 😀hubby held them and I literally just trimmed the ends it was fairly easy 🐹and saved me some money at the vets 😀
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Post by chantel on Feb 5, 2023 11:07:23 GMT
We had the first emergency with little moonlight yesterday 🐹I got hubby to hold her whilst I tried to give her coat a little brush 🐹she was squeaking like crazy and getting really upset. when I looked at her one of her eyes were completely closed 🙈I tried to have a good look but she was getting really upset bless her . I got a syringe with some water and a cotton wool bud and bathed her eye 👁️ I thought I could see something under her eyelid so I gently kept bathing 🙈eventually I managed to get it out it was a grass seed but by now her eye was very weepy 😢hubby was still holding her but she was so good bless her🐹we popped her in her pen for a run around . She was still eating but I was worried that I had not got it all out and read that injury can cause ulcers 🙈we checked her before bed but she had got her eye half closed but seemed ok. I didn’t want to keep messing with it and cause more irritation so I decided to leave until this morning.
I have read in a Guinea pig Facebook group that this is very common and to use eye drops from the pharmacy so that was my plan today if she was no better.
Thankfully when I checked her this morning her eye was fully open and looked so much better still a little watery but fingers crossed 🤞 it looked so much better so I am just going to monitor her today I might bathe it again later when I get her out for a run around. I’m so glad I have done lots of research on them and knew what to look out for 😀
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Post by tonib on Feb 5, 2023 18:36:14 GMT
Oh poor Moonlight
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Post by cazypops on Feb 5, 2023 19:43:46 GMT
Well done, in knowing what to do. I think I'd have just panicked. Hope Moonlight carries on getting better.
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Post by lotsofcats on Feb 5, 2023 22:53:06 GMT
Thank goodness you've read up on guinea pigs. I'm glad Moonlight is much better. A big relief for you.
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Post by scallywag on Feb 6, 2023 9:01:17 GMT
Hows Moonlight this morning chantel . Like cazypops , l prob would have panicked too
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