Three just north of Atlanta, GA have until Tuesday

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Feylin

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:38 am


Oh, no, I am so sorry. You really did work so hard and do all the right things. With Alice (a pregnant baby sow) I learned that sometimes single pups are just too hard for the mother and baby. There was nothing more you could have done besides hold her and show her that she was safe and loved now.

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Bugs Mom

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:47 am


How very frustrating. Sometimes no matter how hard we fight for these little ones it's out of our hands. I'm so sorry. You did all you humanly could and they went safe. Rest well Mia and baby. You will always be together now.

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Mum
I GAVE, dammit!

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:49 am


Oh no - you must be heartbroken.

I'm so very, very sorry.

Tracis
Let Sleeping Pigs Lie

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:59 am


I'm very sorry. So tragic.

Pretty Mia knew how hard you were trying to save her and her little one. She was loved.

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Piggster

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:20 am


I'm so sorry STF. You did everything you could to help save them, but sometimes sadly that's just not enough. I'm glad you were able to be with Mia and help her over the bridge to be reunited with her baby so she that she knew love and comfort.

Josephine
Little Jo Wheek

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:15 pm


Oh, I'm so sorry. You did everything you should have done.

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Jennicat

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:27 pm


Mia got the joy of being loved and cherished by you, which was obviously more than her former owner. You did everything possible to give both of them a chance. I'm so sorry.

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WEAVER
one pig at a time.

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:34 pm


STF, I just read this and I wanted to say how incredably sorry I am. Please know I am here for you if you need me for anything. Keep your chin up my friend, you are doing a great thing for these pigs and they are so lucky to have you. Mia wanted to be with her baby and she died in the arms of someone who loved her. Please find peace in knowing that.

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GuineaPinny

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:38 pm


Ohh, I'm so sorry. I hope you're okay.

slavetofuzzy
4 the Good of all Pigs

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:11 pm


Thank you all. I've been going back and forth all day about what if this or what if that. I looked again at the amount of blood on the towel that prompted this whole nightmare and realized I would do the same thing over again.

I suppose not all endings get to be happy ones, despite our efforts. I hate the people that did this to her. I hate backyard breeders and stupid people that put intact opposite sexes together.

I must now focus my attentions to my other nine (who have not had a proper cage cleaning in over a day) and especially Nala, who is still pregnant because of the same stupid people. Pray her story ends much differently than poor Mia.

I will bury her and baby in my garden. These are the first pigs ever to be buried in my yard. All others have been donated to further our knowledge of guinea pigs. Mia has suffered enough indignities and deserves a proper burial with her baby.

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Bugs Mom

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:22 pm


Hugs to you StF and I agree with your feeling about the previous owners. I wish there were some way to keep calous unfeeling people from ever being anywhere near an animal.

Rest well little innocents.

Talishan
You can quote me

Post   » Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:09 pm


This is in largest part my responsibility.

I am usually the one to tell everyone not to do the what-ifs, if-onlys, woulda-shoulda-coulda, but Mia went to the vets she went to at my direction. This is not the clinic of the "main Atlanta vet" we mostly all use. That vet (the lovely and talented Dr. A.) does not have ultrasound in her office, and this one does. I originally took Mia there to have her lumps ultrasounded, and that is when her baby was found.

The vet that looked at her there a week or so ago, ultrasounded her and found her baby is an exotics specialist, and one I trust. She has good surgical skills but not tons and tons of tricky-surgery experience. Yesterday was not her surgery day, although she was there. The vet that actually did the surgery is also a good surgeon, knows a little about exotics and likes them, and is co-owner of the practice, but she is not a trained exotics specialist. She freely admitted this was her first guinea pig C-section.

To me there is a possibility the lumps StF and I originally found were not fatty lipomas at all (they were never aspirated or biopsied). I wonder now if she did not have something aggressively malignant draining her body along with her baby.

Thank you all, so much, for your thoughts, well-wishes, and care. StF, perhaps I should have asked you to take her to Dr. A. all along. I can only say I'm sorry to Mia, her pup, you, and Terry too if Dr. A. should have handled this all along.

Godspeed and safe passage to both of you. You will always be loved and never forgotten.

StF's house is almost due east of ours. We put some lights in our kitchen window, which faces east. I would like to think they will help guide them both home.

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