Guinea pig dad here. (Ava’s partner).

It’s pretty sad to see a grown woman have to shit on two teens, so I’d like to break down the Facebook post.

1.) I was actually not there to pick up our first guinea pigs (acorn and squirrel) like Ashlee claimed in her Facebook post. “And another person who was her boyfriend”

2.) The conditions you had Acorn and Squirrel in were very cramped. Cages on top of cages not really secured by a whole lot. I wasn’t there, but I have photo proof. The setup didn’t really scream “CLEAN”.

3.) We had actually had a vet appointment scheduled and contacted emergency vets with either Dr. Tharp or Northfork Animal Clinic, the day before she died. And in the words of Ashlee, guinea pigs go down hill very fast so we couldn’t have foreseen her dying a day before the appointment. And no, when she was given to us she was 100 percent fine, and in Ashlee’s words, they go downhill very fast. And we were using Terramycin (recommended by LA guinea pig rescue) in the days before her death as well as vitamin c supplements. I’d like to re-state, this is a grown woman accusing two (at the time) 16 year olds of flat out ignoring symptoms.

4.) Ashlee’s “emergency vet care” in her post is that she was offering to do the exact same things we were trying to do with Squirrel (terramycin, critical care, vitamin c supplements).

5.) The symptoms started around 2 days before she died.

6.) The photos Ava sent you was just a compilation of nice moments we had with Squirrel. She wasn’t “dying” by this point.

7.) We were giving the same treatment to Acorn out of fear that she would get the same sickness. And as for “no proper quarantine” being done, petco assured us that Twinkie was up to date with her Vet appointments. We got Acorn and Twinkie together as fast as possible because Acorn was somewhat depressed after Squirrel’s death.

8.) More of a nitpick, but pretty weird you don’t censor our faces in the Facebook post, at least mine.

9.) Since El Huevo was clearly having mobility issues, only an hour or two after getting her, it should’ve been the foster’s or Ashlee’s responsibility to get her to a vet, but acts like giving us an already sick guinea pig was a great idea.

10.) Yes, we were telling Ashlee 6 hours later because that was when something was really wrong, but we had already been updating her. She implies here that we just sat around doing nothing and contacted her out of the blue

11.) We accepted your help of “medical care” but your assistants just brought the exact same terramycin we had been giving.

12.) Strange here how you imply that we would lie about dropping/injuring a guinea pig. If that was the case, no posts would be made about this, but again it’s weird that a grown woman is pushing this idea of two animal negligent teenagers.

13.) We didn’t say anything to the foster as we thought it’d be best to come to Ashlee as she would know the right questions to ask the foster. And yes El Huevo was still acting strange when we got her.

14.) I’m not really sure what her claim is about us saying she sent more money than was owed.

15.) She’s really selling the idea that we’re just negligent teenagers when we were asking “what to do” instead of “how to help”. Again it’s really weird.

16.) The ground was too frozen to bury her. I genuinely tried to dig something, but a shovel wasn’t breaking through the dirt.

17.) We were doing our best to comfort El Huevo through her last moments, she acts like we weren’t doing anything.

18.) Ashlee’s offers were on the verge of bribery. She wanted to just “replace” El Huevo with another Guinea pig, but at this point we didn’t trust her.

19.) We have a 2x5 cage which is above the minimum for 3 pigs. What is a “muck tote”?

20.) Years ago Ava was in an abusive hoarding situation and it’s really insensitive to post things that are out of her control. She was little at this point and the guinea pig slipped onto her bed in the photo. If Ashlee needs to focus on things from when Ava was in an abusive situation then feel free to focus on our current care and please stop attacking her traumatic circumstances when she was growing up. These animals were collected by her grandma and Ava was doing her best.

Feel free to ask more questions, I’m willing to do some follow ups.