It all started with Gordy...
Your piggies are just so adorable. I love abbies. They are my favorite, I think. Not that I wouldn't love another breed of guinea pig, obviously. I just have a soft spot for abbies. :)
- Jaycey
- Supporter in 2014
So, I have some wonderful piggies and brilliant photos that I want to share with you guys, but I need to get upto date with the story first.
Back to it then!!
17th May was the date I was given Arnold J. Rimmer, so I didn't know his birthday. As he was small when I got him I decided to celebrate his birthday in early April.
April 2011 - Arnold J. Rimmer's birthday
We all got up early to share a nice breakfast:
Then it was present time. Any ideas how old he is?
Birthday boy:
"Be gone now please"
Back to it then!!
17th May was the date I was given Arnold J. Rimmer, so I didn't know his birthday. As he was small when I got him I decided to celebrate his birthday in early April.
April 2011 - Arnold J. Rimmer's birthday
We all got up early to share a nice breakfast:
Then it was present time. Any ideas how old he is?
Birthday boy:
"Be gone now please"
What a lovely, silly wee face he has! And hello you!
Love the fabric in his cosy! :)
Love the fabric in his cosy! :)
- Jaycey
- Supporter in 2014
Although the other two didn't want to take part in Arnold's birthday celebrations (except for the eating of course), they were still getting on well
It was at this photo session I got one of the best guinea pig photo's ever. It's so funny. Although it was taken 3 years ago now I used it for my boyfriends birthday card this year. Silly Toki Wartooth
It was at this photo session I got one of the best guinea pig photo's ever. It's so funny. Although it was taken 3 years ago now I used it for my boyfriends birthday card this year. Silly Toki Wartooth
- Jaycey
- Supporter in 2014
It wasn't long after his birthday that the start of Arnold's problems started to show
You can see from the photo how slim his back half is. He had an xray and was diagnosed with quite severe arthritis. He had started to hop a little bit and was walking on his heels.
Although the xray said that his knee joints were almost non existent we decided to to try to help him. He was given Glucosamine and Metacam. Unfortunately he had a terrible reaction to the Metacam but was sucessfully swapped onto Rimadyl.
He ceased to hop and seemed to get around the cage a lot easier.
Due to the arthritis he had a loss of muscle tone in his rear and as you can see from the photo he suffered quite badly from impaction.
Man, the poops I got out of him were huge! I'd expect that size poop to come from my parents dog!
He didn't seem to be fussed by me cleaning him out and he was still quite happy in himself. He could still get into that hay box in the photo.
In the meantime Toki still looked like a cloud:
You can see from the photo how slim his back half is. He had an xray and was diagnosed with quite severe arthritis. He had started to hop a little bit and was walking on his heels.
Although the xray said that his knee joints were almost non existent we decided to to try to help him. He was given Glucosamine and Metacam. Unfortunately he had a terrible reaction to the Metacam but was sucessfully swapped onto Rimadyl.
He ceased to hop and seemed to get around the cage a lot easier.
Due to the arthritis he had a loss of muscle tone in his rear and as you can see from the photo he suffered quite badly from impaction.
Man, the poops I got out of him were huge! I'd expect that size poop to come from my parents dog!
He didn't seem to be fussed by me cleaning him out and he was still quite happy in himself. He could still get into that hay box in the photo.
In the meantime Toki still looked like a cloud:
- snowflakey
- E's Moriarity
It's hard to watch them get old! It sounds like you have a good plan to keep his quality of life good.