[Gpdd] [HEALTH] George the GP needs your prayers and well wishes!

Sun Aug 1 19:58:23 EDT 2004

To all GPD Digesters:

Today,  George the GP, had to go to the hospital. His Mom and Dad (Joseph C.
Petrillo) would appreciate all your prayers and well wishes for a speedy
recovery. He has been diagnosed with pneumonia and an enlarged heart. George
seemed to be doing quite well and not showing any symptoms so this was quite
a shock to us all.

He is eating and appears to be doing well so far. He is getting oxygen,
lasix and an antibiotic. He will be picked up by his parents in the morning
and taken to his own vet so keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

Thank you,
Carol and the girls (Angel who is George's wife, Sophie and Elsie)

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>    1. [HEALTH] RE: My piggie is losing hair & changing color
>       (Dawnda Stricklen)
>    2. Rainbow Bridge - Re: Timothy (Dawnda Stricklen)
>    3. [Rescue] rescue transport (Karen Brown)
>    4. [CARE]what veggies and fruits? (Megan McCullough)
>    5. [ANNOUNCE] New Piggie Babies!!! (TyTash at aol.com)
>    6. [MISC] Piggy Patrol (Rebecca Jones)
>    7. Behavior:[Wheat Thins] (seth at horusandseth.com)
>    8. [SILLY] My piggie!! (petunia_loo at yahoo.com)
>    9. [SILLY] My piggie!! (petunia_loo at yahoo.com)
>   10. Miscellaneous Re: Rainbow Bridge-Timothy (Guineapigfilms at aol.com)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:49:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dawnda Stricklen <dawndastricklen at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Gpdd] [HEALTH] RE: My piggie is losing hair & changing color
> To: Gpdd at gpdd.org
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> Hello
>
> Your piggie may just be getting older. My Tasha's coat
> didn't look as full and she changed from white to gray
> in spots. I know other colored pig change color as
> they grow older too.
>
> Dawnda
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:01:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dawnda Stricklen <dawndastricklen at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Gpdd] Rainbow Bridge - Re: Timothy
> To: Gpdd at gpdd.org
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> Hello Julia
>
> I was so sorry to hear about Timothy. It is such a
> hard dicision to decide whether to have surgery done
> or not. We never know what the outcome will be. You
> don't know what the outcome would have been if you had
> left the lumps either. They may have kept growing and
> had to have surgery later and it would have been a
> much worse surgery. He could have been hiding any pain
> the lumps were causing him too. They are very good at
> that.
> I felt the same way when I had the mammary gland tumor
> taken out of Sabrina. Luckily, she make it through.
> She had a huge incision and they said the tumor was
> going to press on her bladder and cause pain. The
> tumors in Timothy would probably have cause pain do to
> their size sooner or later too.
> I know you feel awful, but don't be too hard on
> yourself. You were trying to help him.
>
> Dawnda
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 07:20:52 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Karen Brown <shanclan2003 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Gpdd] [Rescue] rescue transport
> To: petunia_loo at yahoo.com
> Cc: gpdd at gpdd.org
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> Hi Lauren,
>
> I would like to organize a rescue railroad in New
> England after a dump earlier this month of 40+ cavies
> at the Concord NH SPCA.
>
> I've been out of the rescue loop for a while so I
> don't know if there are any other regional railroads
> in place.
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 08:17:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Megan McCullough <duckie_3114 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Gpdd] [CARE]what veggies and fruits?
> To: gpdd at gpdd.org
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I was just wondering what veggies and fruits are best for Guinea Pigs?
> I feed CoCo lettuce and grapes, but i was wondering if i could
> feed her strawberrys and what other veggies and fruits everyone
> else uses.
> Thanks,
> Meg and CoCo
> please respond to my post at my email address,
> duckie_3114 at yahoo.com, because I may not see your responce if you post.
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:19:41 EDT
> From: TyTash at aol.com
> Subject: [Gpdd] [ANNOUNCE] New Piggie Babies!!!
> To: gpdd at gpdd.org
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> Hello everyone!! I'm so excited!! The moma guinea pig where i
> work finally
> had 3 big beautiful babies!!!! she had been looking like she was
> ready to pop
> for the past few weeks, and i've been counting down the days!!!
> when i got to
> work, i looked in her cage and bam! there they were, there was
> still fresh blood
> so i was assuming that she had them real early this morning or late last
> night, but anyways, im gonna name them as soon as i get to tell therre
> personalities a little more since they can't be sold for a couple
> months anyways!!! ahh i
> love them already im soo happpy... and other good news, 3 of the 4 guinea
> pigs that the humane society got sold to good homes too, so now
> we have 2 rough
> haired guys plus moma and the new babies!! well, keep in touch,
> have a great
> day everyone and God bless
>
> Tasha
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:33:23 +0100 (BST)
> From: Rebecca Jones <rj1571 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: [Gpdd] [MISC] Piggy Patrol
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> Hi All
>
> I am so annoyed at the moment that I wanted to share with people
> who would understand why.
>
> I went to our local garden centre today to buy some pet supplies.
>  They have good hay and have recently started selling guinea
> pigs, rabbits and hamsters.  While I'm there I always go round
> and check on the animals.  They have some in big runs and the
> last time I was there they had a guinea pig in one of thos big
> plastic indoor hutches, the ones with the metal bars on top.
> Well, I went to check and the plastic hutch appeared to be empty,
> there was hay in, but the food bowl was almost empty and the
> water bottle was lying on the floor half filled with green slime.
>  I was about to walk away when I heard the hay move and I
> realised there was a guinea pig in there.  I looked back at the
> slime filled waterbottle horrified.  My blood boiled.  I opened
> up the hutch, got the water bottle out and marched to the
> checkout.  I told the man at the desk who said he would get it
> sorted.  I told him that wasn't the point, the point was that
> whoever was supposed to be looking after the pets hadn't
>  been near that hutch for days.  You do not get water to turn to
> green slime in a day and it was obvious that water bottle hadn't
> been touched for best part of the week.  On that basis it was
> unlikely that the poor creature had been fed either.  He agreed
> about the slime and said that the person responsible would be reprimanded.
>
> I feel so angry about it.  I wanted to just scoop up the hutch
> and animal and walk straight out with it.  Only my mother stopped
> me doing it.  This is animal cruelty.  I work for our local
> Council and I will be making an official complaint to the animal
> welfare officer on Monday.  Shops have to have a license to sell
> animals, I inetend to make sure it is not renewed!!
>
> Becuase I stormed out of that shop, I still needed pet supplies
> so we went to another garden centre where they look after the
> animals properly.  I was just looking at the guinea pig supplies
> when in horror I spotted a large metal wheel, the kind with the
> slatted surface which was emblazened with the words guinea pig
> wheel!!  I'd just come out of one big row with the other shop and
> didn't want to do it again, but I couldn't just leave it.  So,
> politely, I approached one of the assistants and said that I had
> just spotted this product and did she know that guinea pigs could
> not use wheels as it could snap their backs, and also that NO
> small animal should have a slatted wheel becuase they can get
> their feet and tails broken in them.  Thankfully she was very
> helpful, said they had told head office about this and had
> relabled the remaining stock as hamster wheels.  I pointed out
> the packaging saying guinea pig wheels and how innocent but
> uninformed pet owners would presume they were safe.
>  She then took all the packaging off them.
>
> I left feeling a little shaken by the afternoon, but happier that
> hopefully I had saved at least one animal from suffering.
>
> Mom doesn't want to come shopping with me anymore:-)
>
> Beki
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:31:31 -0400
> From: seth at horusandseth.com
> Subject: [Gpdd] Behavior:[Wheat Thins]
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> I haven't written in a while, but for those who remember Goofus
> and Gallant,
> they are doing quite well.  (Both had surgery in the last year --
> living proof
> that a top-notch vet can perform a hysterectomy on even a 4 year
> old piggo.)
> Goofus did something amusing lately.  He tends to beg for food
> quite loudly and
> will express dissatisfaction with substandard treats.  Recently,
> he started
> yelling and I had exhausted his entire treat stash.  I had been
> enjoying some
> Wheat Thins on the couch and in frustration I gave him one.  He
> waved in high
> and paraded around the cage before devouring it.  Gallant didn't
> even want to
> smell one.
>
> Hug em while you got em,
> with healing wheeks,
> MR
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:17:10 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "petunia_loo at yahoo.com" <petunia_loo at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Gpdd] [SILLY] My piggie!!
> To: gpdd at gpdd.org
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> Hi Susana and Speed,
> Welcome to the GPDD! You will learn a lot here. Just
> curious, do you call "Speed" "Speed" as in the English
> word, or do you call him the Portuguese word for
> speed?
> I went to Portugal and Lisbon about a year ago and it
> was very beautiful. I'm definitely going back there
> some day. My great-grandparents were from Portugal,
> from the Azores actually. My last name is Cordeiro, I
> think that means sheep! Baaaaaa.
> I hope you enjoy the GPDD.
> ~Lauren, Piglet and Pooh Bear
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> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:22:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "petunia_loo at yahoo.com" <petunia_loo at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Gpdd] [SILLY] My piggie!!
> To: gpdd at gpdd.org
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> Oh, sorry I forgot to mention of course, while I'm on
> the topic of Portugal... I just started getting into
> Portuguese Fado and it is so beautiful. Of course I
> like Amalia Rodrigues, and one of my favorite artists
> is Mariza, especially her album Fado Em Mim!!!
> Everybody needs to go out and buy it because seriously
> it is the best CD ever!!! I rank it up there with
> Modest Mouse and Radiohead!!! Sorry if this is
> completely off-topic.
> Wheeeeks,
> Lauren, Piglet and Pooh BEar
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> Message: 10
> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 02:04:04 EDT
> From: Guineapigfilms at aol.com
> Subject: [Gpdd] Miscellaneous Re: Rainbow Bridge-Timothy
> To: Gpdd at gpdd.org, tabithaporter at yahoo.com
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> Dear Julia,
>
> I am so sorry for your loss.  Please believe me when I say you are only
> guilty of loving your piggy so much that you wanted to do
> everything possible for
> him.  If Timothy had lumps under his chin the size of golf balls,
> then the vet
> was right---they would soon have affected him.  He might have died a very
> prolonged, painful death if he hadn't had the surgery.  I feel
> very strongly that
> you did the right thing.  But I know how you are feeling right
> now, because I
> had a lovely pig named Waldo, who looked a bit like a very small Yorkie,
> because of his long hair.  He was extremely intelligent and had loads of
> personality, and used to run all around the kitchen, stopping to
> drink water out of the
> dogs' bowl.  He would come when you called his name.  He knew the words
> "Mommy" and "Daddy" and if someone said "Go to Mommy," he would
> run to my Mom.  He
> was a very lively, extremely loveable little guy.  One day he
> just stopped
> eating.  My mom and I took him to the vet several times, and each
> time we were t
> old the same thing---that he was fine, his teeth were fine, he
> was healthy, and
> maybe we were imagining it.  (Our regular exotics vet was on
> vacation, and her
> partner---who seemed to know nothing about guinea pigs---was temporarily
> taking her place.)  Finally we insisted that the vet do something
> to help Waldo,
> as he was losing weight.  The vet agreed to take X-rays, but said
> he'd have to
> anesthesize him.  He made us leave Waldo there while he put him
> to sleep and
> took the X-rays.  We came back later that day to pick Waldo up,
> and he was
> totally different---a very depressed pig.  I think he was missing
> us so much and
> was so scared to be away from his home that he just sort of gave
> up on life.
> The vet told us that the X-rays showed that Waldo was "fine" and
> told us to
> take him home and "give him some more hay to perk him up."  We
> were extremely
> upset, and very worried to see Waldo looking so miserable.  We
> took him home, and
> he didn't live for more than a few days.  (About a month later my mom
> happened to see the "substitute vet" in the grocery store, and he
> asked her quite
> cheerily how Waldo was doing.  My mom told him that Waldo died.)
> Of course, my
> mom and I felt very guilty that we had taken Waldo to the vet in
> the first
> place.  We felt that maybe the stress of the anesthesia plus his weakened
> condition and homesickness contributed to his death.  He was
> never the same pig after
> we brought him home from the vet after his X-rays.  But now even though I
> still feel bad about it all, I know that we were trying to do the
> best we could
> for the little guy.  We KNEW he was sick.  We have had more than
> 23 guinea pigs,
> and we KNOW the signs of illness.  The vet dismissed our concern,
> thinking we
> were "pet hypochondriacs."  Julia, what I am trying to say is
> that you will
> realize, in time, that you were a wonderful "mom" to Timothy, and
> that you did
> everything you could for him.  It wasn't your fault that he got
> the lumps.
>
> The other suggestion I have is about burying Timothy, as you said
> you had to
> move from your flat.  When one of our Yorkies died, we had him
> cremated, as we
> were living in a temporary apartment.  I made a ceramic urn for him in a
> Crafts Class and we keep the urn in our kitchen (surrounded by
> our Yorkie's
> favorite toys and also a vase of artificial flowers).  We see it
> all the time, and
> keep Winston forever in our memory.  Our vet (a different one,
> that we go to
> with our dogs and cat, but who knows very little about guinea
> pigs) had him
> cremated by the Animal Shelter.  Again, I am so very sorry about
> your loss, but
> please find consolation in the fact that Timothy surely knew you
> loved him and
> cared for him the best you could.
>
> Love and (((HUGS)))xxx and Wheeeeeeeps,
>
> Alyssa and the guinea pig movie stars
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