Aww~ Congratulations! He remind me of Baby Micheri more than a year ago.

Is it ok for GPs to lick up the vaseline? It's bound to start cleaning itself when its body is covered in some fluid.

There are many factors and ways to keep your hay fresh.

Firstly, how lasting the hay is in the point of freshness, depends on the quality. Good quality hay deteriorates much more slowly than those cheap ones.

Secondly, the hay must be kept dry. Moisture and warm temperatures (like Malaysia's weather) will deteriorate the hay's quality fast. Moisture and warm temperature encourages the growth of mold which is bad for your GPs if they eat it. I feel the best way to keep the moisture low is to keep the hay in plastic bags.

Keeping in air tight containers also work lar but if you open and close it a lot then the moisture will go in. That's why I use 1 plastic bag of hay for feeding while the other is sealed. When it's finished, I refill the one and keep opening only that one bag. The other bag of hay remains fresh lor.

Ok, can members of the piggy thread spot something that is not a flower but looks just as pretty in the picture? Hehe...



This post has been edited by Jamien: Jul 23 2008, 01:58 AM

I usually give from straight out of the fridge too. no problems.

And my mum says that washing the vege before putting in the fridge will cause the vege to rot faster, which defeats the purpose of putting it in the fridge mar. I wash it before I feed to my pigs.

I notice your GP have a lot of health trouble. Why don't you bring to a vet? It might not be a simple infection you know.

When my Girl Girl was barbering herself, after 1 week of nmite infection and a single time of fungus cream by the vet, her fur grew back in a little more than 1 week. I mean fur that can see more than a stubble.

If your vet doesn't help it's time to seek a second opinion.

It sounds very serious. It also could be that yur poor GP is allergic to the medication you are giving it.

Since it's that serious already, all the more reason you should bring to a good vet. It's dangerous to self-medicate because wat we think might be the problem may actually not be the problem. In fact, what you're giving may actually be making the problem worse (I'm not sure but it's possible).

It's like a person. Got skin rashes you just get some allergy cream for him. You keep giving him cream. Then pimple like spots began appearing. The proper thing to do is to bring to a doctor, because a doctor can run tests and perscribe the right medicine for that person.

You are not a vet and may not be giving the right treatment for your piggy. If you truly love your GP, find means and ways to get it to a good vet.

I'm sorry but I still think it's the best way.

I dunno. From wat I know, most infectious diseases are actually transfered from cats, dogs or birds. Guinea pigs have ring worms la. Turtles and Tortoises has salmonella.

Unless you're talkng about plague or stuff like that from sewer rats and mice (plague is a serious disease that causes death) I don't know any serious disease that comes from small animals that can be transfered to humans.

But our house small animals like hamsters and guinea pigs don't usually have these viruses. I've been bitten by hamsters and guinea pigs and I didn't get sick lar.

Juztiny! Your new piggie looks like a teddy bear! So cute!! How much? The fur looks a bit curly also le.

O! I know which youo're talking about, the RM 88 ones. The GPs that the pet wonderland fellas call "special color" and there's one that looks like sharil's Jazz. But some of them were abbys wat.

SOME of them were abbys. I saw some american short hairs with nice colors and markings in that category also. Basically they're just making more money with the "special color" bull.

I saw one I quite like but couldn't bring home cuz I have my 3 ladies. Plus the way they are kept is so filthy... Lousy food at that. People stressing them out by knocking on the glass. So pitiful... Sigh...

Rumi, post another photo of your Ms Kojiro lar.. We all analyse. Hehe...

So good to know that! Congrats! Hope your girl has a steady recovery!

Sorry Jin... This is a lil... Offtopic?

Anyway, do you have your own guinea pig? Or soon to own?

@adrianne do post a pict of your darling girl when she fully recovers ok? BTW wat medication did dr yeoh perscribe to her?

Wah... You got quite some connections. 6 feet floor space is awesome for one GP.

I do go to zoological but I don't like the shop there... They treat small animals so badly... Sigh...

Yesh very busy. I'm going Pe Shack next week le. Cannot tahan her nails dy. When she grab my hand can puncture holes.

Micheri is fine.. Nowadays very good girl, didn't upull out her toilet paper. I posted this a week back. Here muchan, just for you. Hehe...




This post has been edited by Jamien: Aug 3 2008, 02:02 PM

Not so much as traditional ways la. It's because the standard of pet care in Malaysia has not yet risen all that high. So people don't expect to buy pets from the cleanest and shops that gives the best care for their pets.

It's living standards la. Back then people will go eat at roadside shops with a lot of lalat here and there like lalat infestation coupled with cockroach wonderland also nvm. But nowadays people where will eat in these kinda places. So these kinda dirty shops must clean up to suit consumer's needs.

When people's expectation for pet care rises, there's no other way for pet shops except to be better. It's a real long way to go for Malaysia.

Yeah but consumers still buy pets form dirty place so that means consumer don need them to change so they ma no change lo.

You miss my Girl Girl only izzit. That day you only keep touching her.

Either wednesday or friday. She was there for my party ma. So she came to my mini pet corner and molest my Girl Girl lo.