Buy awesome this 'What Guinea Pigs think' print right here by cazzam.I'm not sure if anyone else has been on the edge of their seats wondering about Kirk, but I know I've certainly been going crazy. I'm very happy to report that he is doing excellent today. Aside from a few sneezes this afternoon it's almost as if he was never sick. Giving him his medication has been a bit of a trial, but it's obviously working. He hasn't bit off any of my fingers yet despite the fact that I'm giving him 2 nose drops every 8 hours and 2 oral medications every 12. He's a trooper! The vet called me today to make sure he was doing okay and to ask if I had any questions. I was pretty impressed with that. I would highly recommend the Southgate Animal Hospital to anyone in the downriver area, they were really good to us.
I know some people think that guinea pigs are a disposable pet, but I have gotten quite attached to my 2 little boys already and even though I got the 2 piggies to be pair, I'm pretty sure Kirk and I are the bonded pair. Because Kirk is more docile he's easier to pick up and love on. We lay on the couch and watch TV together (or rather I watch TV and Kirk snoozes while getting petted) and he greets me every time I go to their cage. Spock is my wild boy, and Kirk is my little lover.
Today I got them to eat a little bit of leafy greens. Before today, I tried carrots (baby AND shredded), cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, a small piece of orange and an orange peel and they weren't going for any of it. I picked up some cucumbers, green beans and parsely at the grocery store today. I tried the cucumbers first because I was going to try to inject Kirk's oral meds into some pieces but he wasn't feeling it at all. Same with the green beans. They weren't too keen on the parsley either until I mixed a small amount of hay on top of it. I'm going to try to get a video of them sucking it down tomorrow because it's absolutely hilarious to watch. I've read that guineas from pet stores are more reluctant to try veggies because they don't get them in the store so I'm hoping that they will branch out soon. I'm going to keep bothering them with new stuff until they start eating their veggies.
Hopefully all of my posts in the near future won't be all piggy related. Kirk has been my number one priority lately and school has been second. My first class is about how to take online classes. It has a pretty insane amount of assignments for what I thought would be a piece of cake class. For example, I had to make a spread sheet last week with all 24 hours of my day filled in with what I would be doing for a 3 week period. This was example of time management I guess. It might not sound that bad, but it was a pain in the ass. That's on top of participating in mandatory discussions every day.
I know some people think that guinea pigs are a disposable pet, but I have gotten quite attached to my 2 little boys already and even though I got the 2 piggies to be pair, I'm pretty sure Kirk and I are the bonded pair. Because Kirk is more docile he's easier to pick up and love on. We lay on the couch and watch TV together (or rather I watch TV and Kirk snoozes while getting petted) and he greets me every time I go to their cage. Spock is my wild boy, and Kirk is my little lover.
Today I got them to eat a little bit of leafy greens. Before today, I tried carrots (baby AND shredded), cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, a small piece of orange and an orange peel and they weren't going for any of it. I picked up some cucumbers, green beans and parsely at the grocery store today. I tried the cucumbers first because I was going to try to inject Kirk's oral meds into some pieces but he wasn't feeling it at all. Same with the green beans. They weren't too keen on the parsley either until I mixed a small amount of hay on top of it. I'm going to try to get a video of them sucking it down tomorrow because it's absolutely hilarious to watch. I've read that guineas from pet stores are more reluctant to try veggies because they don't get them in the store so I'm hoping that they will branch out soon. I'm going to keep bothering them with new stuff until they start eating their veggies.
Hopefully all of my posts in the near future won't be all piggy related. Kirk has been my number one priority lately and school has been second. My first class is about how to take online classes. It has a pretty insane amount of assignments for what I thought would be a piece of cake class. For example, I had to make a spread sheet last week with all 24 hours of my day filled in with what I would be doing for a 3 week period. This was example of time management I guess. It might not sound that bad, but it was a pain in the ass. That's on top of participating in mandatory discussions every day.
I think my Grams brings her cat there. Lp vet is really nice too. Dr. Diszik has been pretty awesome with all of Dublin and Boogers weird health issues. Calling me at home and not making me make an appointment everytime the doggies needed something saved me from going completely broke last year. Sure he still thinks my name is"Ms.Brown" (not Mrs.Brown not Ms. Karnes)but I guess I can live with that...
ReplyDeleteok, I have no idea why I didn't realize that I got any comments. Blogger stopped sending me e-mails I guess, I'm going to have to figure that out.
ReplyDeleteI was kind of surprised that they called me to see how Kirk was doing and to ask if I had any questions. It is pretty crazy how much it costs to take a pet to the vet! I called the vet that Pepito goes to but they don't do 'exotic pets' so they referred me to Southgate, I will have to keep LP in the phone as a back-up just in case!