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Post by piggywiggymel on Feb 21, 2005 15:54:23 GMT 7
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Post by Leoric on Feb 22, 2005 11:44:35 GMT 7
Rest in Peace, Caramel..  This is really puzzling.Could it be fights,or perhaps stress that causes his unnatural death? |
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Post by piggywiggymel on Feb 22, 2005 23:54:23 GMT 7
Caramel had always been the pig who went round annoying the others, who are relatively peaceful creatures... He basically causes chaos in the cage sometimes, and so I scold him and sometimes take him out of the cage to run around so he won't disturb them. Last wednesday, I let him run around for awhile while I went to watch TV, and he was surprisingly frightened when I tried to carry him to put him back. I was kind of worried then, but he seemed fine the next day, so I left it at that. Sigh... Another reason could be poisoning, cause my cousin who loves guinea pigs hung an ang pow around the water bottle, out of their reach, but I guess the wind blew or something, and I came home to find the ang pow in pieces in the cage. Pretty sure he wasn't the only one to have chewed it, though. And the other pigs are fine. Also, this happened even before that wednesday when he started disturbing the pigs.. Yet another reason could be heatstroke, as he was lying in the sunny portion of the cage on Sunday afternoon, though he always does that.. Really no idea man... he didn't show any outwardly ill symptoms and hadn't lost weight as far as I could see. He sometimes lazes around sleeping, but then again, which piggy doesn't? He's buried under the papaya tree in my garden now. I don't mind paying for an autopsy, but I don't want to disturb his resting place, not to mention having his body dissected... |
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Post by Joyce on Feb 24, 2005 21:18:48 GMT 7
My deepest condolences.. I know how it feels to have a beloved piggy die just like that without any signs of it before that. Hope he died peacefully.
*hugs*
feel better soon.
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Post by piggywiggymel on Feb 24, 2005 22:46:55 GMT 7
Thanks all for your condolences. Right now, I get paranoid whenever I see any of the remaining three piggies sleeping, cos I get scared that I'll find them dead too.  |
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No idea how he died, just found him dead in the morning. He was still fine the day before, playing with the food bin as usual. At night, he ate the hay together with all the other pigs and looked as normal as normal could be. I still wonder what happened. I feel so guilty, especially since I scolded him last week for disturbing the other pigs and causing chaos in the cage. Now, I wonder if he was sick and I just didn't notice it, or if there was anything I could have done but didn't. The other pigs look quite forlorn now, and I worry for his brother Cream, who's very close to him. 
