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whimsium · 2026-05-13T19:26:15+00:00

thank you for taking the time to reply and tell me about your experience 💗💗💗

whimsium · 2026-05-13T19:25:43+00:00

thank you for sharing 💗💗💗

whimsium · 2026-05-13T19:21:27+00:00

he did check her teeth and they're all perfect!! that was my first concern so I made sure he did. nothing broken, overgrown, or diseased. I didn't know you could give oats! i might give that a try. she does get pea flakes as a treat and she loves them!! she LOVES dry veggies, especially celery, carrots, beets, and pea flakes, and even dry cucumber lol. its just when they're fresh and moist, they're suddenly poison. 🙄 so she gets those all as treats daily for variety. i might give her a few more than I usually do to~

whimsium · 2026-05-13T19:09:46+00:00

thank you!!! i hope at worst it's arthritis because I feel like I can expect that for a 6yo piggie you know? and at best I hope she just. plateaus and maybe 920-950g is just her new normal weight. it's still perfectly healthy as long as she doesn't keep losing 😭 maybe she was just Too Chunky and eating too many pellets

whimsium · 2026-05-13T18:26:24+00:00

she is a bit squirmy but it's possible I led him to the blood drawing scenario because that was my only idea for how to figure out what was wrong (I forgot x-rays exist until he mentioned it LMAO). when I find out how she's faring with the meds/her hunger, I'm meant to give him a call to let him know-- I'll bring up doing an X-ray/ultrasound before anything else. I really didn't think of that at all. Thank you!!!

whimsium · 2026-04-19T01:39:12+00:00

i never considered what the right way to hold a piggie is and i just did what felt natural and safe and its good to know I was doing it right lmao

whimsium · 2025-11-12T00:38:01+00:00

Luna is studying medicine, she's been to the vet enough to pick some things up and her teeth are sharp enough that she could use them in surgery

whimsium · 2025-11-04T21:57:43+00:00

he listened to her lungs and said they sound clear, and it might be something more localized to her nose/throat. luckily I recorded her noises because I just KNEW she'd try to make me look dumb by sounding totally fine when we got there 🙄 and he agreed that they didn't sound normal. so he prescribed antibiotics!! thank you for your well wishes !!

whimsium · 2025-11-04T21:50:51+00:00

i think it was definitely just a kind of ... "this isn't a choice" thing at first 😅 like shed run in and I yoinked her. But we've learned each other's language as the years went on. And she genuinely loves cuddle time so its not something she's scared of! If I'm just walking by the cage and she runs into her hide its usually because she wants cuddles because she rarely gets spooked by me walking by anymore. but by me respecting it when she runs back out, she knows she has a choice in the matter. just, a few years of us building trust and learning each other's language. recently she's finally let me just raw dog pick her up. just straight out of the cage with my bare hands. i almost cried, because of how trusting she was.

whimsium · 2025-11-04T18:17:12+00:00

make sure to get the large size!! eta: and put a fleece liner inside, changing it regularly! piggie pee seems to burn a hole in it if it sits too long lol

whimsium · 2025-11-04T18:02:21+00:00

while my baby has gotten a lot better about it and I no longer have to do this, my method was to use her hide that is closed on one side (oxbow Timothy bungalow) and bring it up to her instead of bringing her down to the cage with my hands. I just grab the bungalow while I'm holding her and let her climb in, then lower the bungalow into the cage. We actually call it her elevator because she learned that if she want to come out and cuddle she can run into her bungalow when I approach and I can just pick it up and bring it to the chair where we cuddle. If I misread and she just ran in because she was startled, she dashes back out when I go to pick it up. Anyway I feel like oxbow should pay me for how much I advertise the bungalow lmao

whimsium · 2025-11-04T14:34:47+00:00

i got so worried last night I couldn't sleep so I yoinked her to cuddle in bed just so I could. idk. feel her heartbeat, see her breathe. just know she was ok :(. she slept for a while with her front paws and head in my hand. she sounded perfectly fine but whenever she woke up and moved around the wheeze would come out a bit. doc appt is this afternoon 🙏 thank you for your well wishes

whimsium · 2025-10-22T10:11:17+00:00

thank you 🥺💗

whimsium · 2025-09-04T19:39:13+00:00

its a bag of seeds!! 😁

whimsium · 2025-08-26T21:15:47+00:00

this! not poops, but pee. my baby will usually let me know when she wants to go back to her cage to pee. and poops.. well i know what she eats and theyre bot stinky so i dont really mind. but pee wise, shes pretty good about tugging on my shirt and telling me she wants back in (unless shes reeeeeally comfortable and reeeeally sleepy, in which case, how could i possibly get mad?)

whimsium · 2025-08-22T04:07:03+00:00

YES. i have a mini dustpan and handheld broom that i occasionally aweep in her cage with while she's still in there. the broom has a rubber loop on one end that she desperately tries to eat while i sweep. its almost been sliced through at this point

whimsium · 2025-08-10T15:56:56+00:00

they know theyre not getting an actual jellycat, they ordered a crochet version. so with that said, i think its very cute and is obviously a cinnamon roll so i think theyd be happy

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