Hello piggie peeps. Welcome back to Piggie Crumbs. Today we have an adoption story and
that is Rolo's adoption story. Little Rolo here is very cute and he is about five or
six months old now. He's been with us for the last ten weeks and this is his
adoption story. So on the 26th of May, I had decided to visit my local pet
stores just to have a quick look at what guinea pigs they had and I needed
to pick up a few things - I think I needed hay and piggie pellets, the usual
things, and I noticed that in our local Pets at Home
they had Rolo - who at the time was named Rex - in the Support for
Adoption bay and I inquired as to his story and it turned out that
unfortunately he had been beating up his cage mates. He decided he didn't like
them and was starting fights and he got as good as he got by the looks of it
because he has unfortunately got a tear in one ear and it also looks like
he's got some scratch marks on both eyes but as you can see he's a very very
healthy piggy and so it didn't give him a bad start in life.
So Rex as he was known at the time had been put in the Support for
Adoption section at Pets at Home and and was being described as having to
be sold as a 'solo piggy' and unfortunately this is something that
I really disagreed with with Pets at Home and was one of the main factors for
actually adopting him. As we all know - guinea pigs are social creatures and
really shouldn't be kept on their own. There are special circumstances but the
majority, if not all piggies, should really be with one other piggy if not
more and so I obviously didn't like the fact that Pets at Home were doing this
and had him for adoption and we're saying that he had to be on his own.
So I didn't straightaway get him - I went home and worked out whether I
had space, I had the finances and just
had a bit of a think as to whether I could help with his situation and it
only took an hour and of course I decided yes I had to try and save this
little piggie from a very miserable life on his own potentially. So back to the
store I went and at this point I hadn't even seen him he'd literally been so
scared and so timid and had been in his house the whole time I'd looked at him
so when I went back to the store I obviously checked him over and he was
very healthy - he had obviously the rip in his ear but apart from that was very
kind of sprightly, didn't want to be held and looked very healthy so of course
I adopted him. And as soon as we got home and he could hear the other
two squeaking, he was then squeaking from his little box and bless him I think
he'd been on his own maybe for about four weeks in the adoption bay and
he was so lonely. So, as you should with all new guinea pigs, he then had
a quarantine period which was about a week and a half and then I took him
to the vets a) to check he was a boy - I was pretty confident he was by that
point but it's always good to have a second opinion and b) just to do a
once-over - check he didn't have any parasites or any kind of conditions and
they gave him the all clear. So what I did then was put him in a cage that was
basically underneath the other two so he could hear the others and the other two
could hear him, he could smell them, they could smell him and just
generally kind of get them more used to each other. So Rolo straightaway when
this happened was popcorning, he was squeaking, he was just very curious and
honestly the popcorning was so big and so often that I think he was really
happy to have someone to talk to of his own kind. So that was about another
week and a half and then I decided with everything crossed to try and bond them.
Now when I originally got him I wasn't sure if I was going to bond
them just because he had obviously had previous of fighting but he was a
youngster and I thought it was only right - and really with the interactions
that they had - like basically when my two were in floor time they could see him
through bars and there was no aggression towards each other. At one
point GusGus literally lay next to the grid and they were sort of side by side
so I'd had some optimistic thoughts and was very hopeful but it can't be
guaranteed. So one day when I had the time of work I got a pen ready, got
everything ready, put Rolo in first and then slowly introduced GusGus and Rocky
and it was so easy. I'm still super grateful that literally there was only
the little bits of chasing and a little bit of humping but literally nothing happened.
GusGus was just like ''don't bother me I'm boss Pig, I'm just
going to sit here and sleep'' and Rolo and Rocky kind of had a little bit of
chasing out who was number two and who was number three - Rocky's pretty easy go lucky
so I think he's number three and Rolo's decided he's number two him but
yeah literally it couldn't have gone easier and he is the happiest little
sprightly little pig I have ever known. It's so nice to have a little baby again -
I would not really have probably chosen a little baby again but he is such the
sweetest and I have to say that he is so confident and so curious I can't believe
he's only five or six months old and I've had him ten weeks because he is
already so confident. He doesn't mind being picked up, he's not too confident
being stroked in the cage, he's still quite timid regarding that but
he's curious during floor time, he is not scared to squeak to let you know he's
hungry. He'll take treats from me, he'll eat
his pellets out of my hands and so yeah, I just really want to do this video to
remind people that really guinea pigs do need to be with other
guinea pigs and that to give adoption a chance and really I would strongly
suggest adopt don't shop and I know this is an awkward situation really because
he was available in a shop and it was only because he had a fight that he was
in the adoption bay but it was an adoption story in the end and I
can't believe that it all went together. They've now been together for eight,
no seven of those weeks and literally we've only just had some teenage
issues and he's been so good with Rocky especially as Rocky's has
his issues and he's so sweet. So the moral of the story is
please adopt don't shop and also remember that guinea pigs do need
company - they are social creatures. I heard so many horrible stories
about boys and you shouldn't go more than two, which was one of my
worries when I adopted Rolo but I have to say that certainly what people
say about introducing a younger guinea pig to older ones in this situation did
work. Thank you very much for watching and don't forget to like,
comment and subscribe. Thanks. Bye.
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