[Gpdd] CARE: classroom pigs

Fri Jun 20 12:22:36 EDT 2008

Hi All:

I rarely post anything but I am faced with a dilemma and could use input. I work at a daycare in the school age section. In the pre-K section I discovered there's a guinea pig in the classroom in a very small cage not even meeting minimum standards. He's never let out. He has the wrong food. I feel so sorry for him. One weekend, I got permission from the director to take him home for the weekend. I gave him the weekend of his life! When I brought him back Monday afternoon, the teacher of the classroom was mad I took him and scolded me. She said the kids were upset to see him gone Monday morning. Anyways, since then I've tried to encourage them to get a bigger cage. I go in at the end of the night and try to let him out when everyone's gone but sometimes I get caught by the people who work in that classroom. I walked in yesterday with a big note telling me not to open his cage or do anything with the cage. I usually add more hay since they don't seem to
 give him enough. What can I do to help this little guy? I feel he's just being used as a toy for these noisy 3 year olds and nothing more. I can't stop thinking about him. Next Friday is my last day there so I need to come up with some good ideas. Thanks for letting me ramble on!

Laura
Slave to Dolly my 5 yr old piggy.

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Today's Topics:

   1. VIRTUAL Camp Piggyfriends (Penny  Charlesworth)
   2. Misc:  Happy Birthday to Alge! (dogcatpiggymom at yahoo.com)
   3. ANNOUNCEMENT: birthday wishes, Alge (Cindy)
   4. MISC Birthday wishes (Penny  Charlesworth)
   5. Announce: Princess Snowflake's blog entry for Wed, June 18,
      2008 (leah.mcneil at wachovia.com)
   6. ANNOUNCE:  Welcome Luke (Dukejan1 at aol.com)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:20:18 +0100
From: "Penny  Charlesworth" <piggyfriends at tesco.net>
Subject: [Gpdd] VIRTUAL Camp Piggyfriends
To: <gpdd at gpdd.org>
Message-ID: <002a01c8d21f$ff136760$0302a8c0 at inspiron1150>
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Hi Slaves, Gulliver Piggyfriend here,

If you are missing any piggies, I can tell you that the last few tents are
being dismantled and the piggies are packing up to go home. It is getting very
windy here and the tents are proving hard to take down. Maybe not everypig is
trying as hard as they should.

We are due some nasty wet and windy weather for tomorrow and the weekend so it
is better for everypig to be safely at home again. I hope that Team Winky's
ferry crossing will not be too rough.

Slave is mowing the lawns before the rain comes so she needs the tents out of
the way but the remaining piggies are catching the lawn clippings for a late
lunch.

A PigAir helicopter has just landed on the lawn. I had better go and see who it
is for and wave them goodbye.

Thank you slaves everywhere for allowing your piggies to attend our
festivities. I hope that we can do it again sometime.

Regards from Gulliver.

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:27:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: dogcatpiggymom at yahoo.com
Subject: [Gpdd] Misc:  Happy Birthday to Alge!
To: gpdd at gpdd.org
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Happy Birthday Alge!
Enjoy your special day and may this year be a wonderful one for you!
Hugs n' wheeks,
Joanne
Spicy, Merri, Macie, Teddy and his bride, Baci, and Sweetie (who IS staying
after all!)

Don't buy while shelter animals die!? Adopt a pet.

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:52:18 -0400
From: Cindy <calliope at geeksnet.com>
Subject: [Gpdd] ANNOUNCEMENT: birthday wishes, Alge
To: gpdd at gpdd.org
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We would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Alge!

Cindy, Tumbleweed, and Friday

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:55:14 +0100
From: "Penny  Charlesworth" <piggyfriends at tesco.net>
Subject: [Gpdd] MISC Birthday wishes
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Belated happy birthday wishes Alge! We hope that Captain Jack has returned
safely.

Penny and the Piggyfriends.

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:07:37 -0400
From: leah.mcneil at wachovia.com
Subject: [Gpdd] Announce: Princess Snowflake's blog entry for Wed,
	June 18,	2008
To: gpdd at gpdd.org
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Hello Piggies & Slaves!

Check out Princess Snowflake's blog entry for Wednes, June 18, 2008:

http://www.smallanimalchannel.com/critter-blog/guinea-pig-mcneil/blog-june1808.aspx

Also, if you have missed any of the previous posts, you can see them at:

http://www.smallanimalchannel.com/critter-blog/guinea-pig-mcneil/leah-default.aspx

ENJOY!!!

       Love 'n Wheeeeeeeeeeps,
                     Leah...Slave to Princess Snowflake :-)

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:41:48 EDT
From: Dukejan1 at aol.com
Subject: [Gpdd] ANNOUNCE:  Welcome Luke
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All,
My husband and I first saw a male guinea pig at a local pet store about 6  
months ago.  He was a cutie and we mused about having him.  However,  we had
two 
sows that were having health problems and getting near the magical 5  year 
mark.  Additionally, we wanted our next pig to come from a rescue 
organization. 
  About 3 months ago, the pig was still not purchased  but had been caged 
with another male near a sow.  Needless to say, the  little pig took a real 
beating from the other boar, lots of bite marks, a ripped  up ear, etc.  The
pet 
store sent him off to be healed and he re-appeared as  a back room piggie.  
His 
ear will never recover but the scabs have  all healed.  Well, to make a long 
story short, I came home from work today  and my hubby had brought little Luke 
home.  He is currently being  housed in an adjoining bedroom on the third 
floor, as we don't want to  stress Lily (now 5 1/2 year old) and Isabel
(who has 
ovarian cysts --that, by  the way, are responding well to her Lupron 
injections).  Isabel will be 5  years old in about 6 weeks.  The girls are
living in 
their normal room--the  "nursery" as we call it, on the first floor.

Eventually, we plan on having Luke neutered and introducing him to the  girls 
slowly.  We pretty much had decided not to get him, but when we read  about 
Penny bringing home Casanova--who had also been picked on by others-- we  
figured that any home we could give him would be better than what he currently 

had.  While technically not a "rescue" pig, we think we rescued him
since  it is 
unlikely that Luke--8 months old with a chewed up ear--would be the first  pig 
brought home from the pet store.  

Question:  Should we try to introduce a neutered adolescent male to  the 5 
year old sows????  Or would we be better off continuing to house him  separated

from the girls?????  I just don't want to stress Lily or Isabel  
needlessly..... on the other hand, they could think that Luke is great!

Meanwhile, Luke is purring and snugggling with my husband and  me.   He 
obviously has had more love in one day than he had in the  past 8 months.

Janet, slave to Isabel, Lily, and Luke

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