We say goodbye to Squeakers today :(
She likes to explore and test the fencing, she keeps finding spots to squeeze through, and so far I've managed to keep her in. Remy has always been good around them (we have 2), but Tag is just fascinated by them. So we think sometime this early morning, she got out, and when I released them to the yard this morning, she was attacked right away. We were leaving the house, and had no idea anything had happened until we got home a few hours later. All I found were her teeth...nothing else. Madelyn took it pretty hard, and now Tansy is back inside the house, in her small cage compared to the space they had outside. There is no way the dogs can get inside the guniea pig area, the only way was for Squeakers to be the one to find her way out...I thought I took care of the bad spots. I don't even want to think about how horrible her death was. |
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Poor Squeakers 
I'm so sorry for your loss. |
 OH DEAR, POOR SQUEAKERS!!!!!!!!!!!Such an untimely and unfortunate death!
I am sorry! Please tell Madelyn how very sory Tasker Ty and I are! her teeth??????????? |
| Sorry for your loss.....poor squeakers!!!! Give Madelyn a hug from Panda. |
| Poor Squeakers... sorry for your loss... |
Oh Daisie - I'm so sorry to hear of your loss! Poor Squeakers!  |
| That is so sad. How awful. I'm so sympathetic. |
| Daisie,
How awful! I am so sorry for Madelyn...and poor Squeakers. I am sure it was quick though, if that helps any? Elissa |
| Poor Mayelyn.
Did one of the dogs so it? |
| I'm so sorry for your loss. Please give Madelyn an extra hug tonight from me and Drezzie.
Chris |
| so sorry for your loss we also keep g pigs awell and i know just what your going through a few years back our g pigs were killed by foxes. my little girl was only about 3 then. she was so upset. |
| Thanks everyone, we can only assume the dogs did it. There are stray cats around, and I keep looking at our cat Amy...ironically she's been having some horrible hairballs..she is puking up grey fur not brown tho. She's a great mouser, and often out at night. She often kills the mice, and before I clean it up the dogs eat the body...so that may have happened. Tag is quick to grab any kill left behind...we had a husky cross that was the same way. He would search the yard every morning to find anything the cats brought home. Dogs get dewormed regularly...because of that. Doesn't help to have a big open field behind our house.
I'd like to think Remy wouldn't do it, and well Tag, Tag is such a puppy, and he must have been going on instinct...to them I am sure it's no different than a field mouse. Or a fun thing to play with...and he's use to getting raw bones...so I am sure she probably tasted good. Squeakers would always come if called, she was first to squeak for treats, or at the sound of a bag crinkling. She was amazingly the escape artist for getting out of that pen, it was probably her fourth time finding the hole...wasn't even visible to us. She was with us just over a year, and was over 4 yrs old. I am sure the teeth were too hard, or something, I could probaly piece together the entire jaw ... but nothing else was out there. That was very strange. Anyways I hope Tansy warms up to us, we rescued her from the spca, and she was never the favorite so didn't get handled as much. I also hope she adapts to being alone, I am not allowed to bring anymore pets home...hubby has put the foot down. |
Daisie wrote: [...] I am not allowed to bring anymore pets home...hubby has put the foot down. Another Guinea Pig wouldn't be "anymore" of a pet, it would just be a "replacement" pet... no? |
| Right Ron. He put his house down to no more pets. Now you're down one so that space would need filled. Not for you but for Tansy's sake?
Poor Squeakers. Tell Madelyn that it'll get better and we're sorry for the loss. |
| Daisie,
I'm sorry for the lose you and your family suffered. Rest assured, it was NOT your fault! We all know how hard we try to protect our loved ones, but, death is one thing we can't protect them from, nor the way they go. God bless. |
| So, did you have a funeral with the teeth? |
| Tasker's Mom... I would hate to laugh in a very sad REAL thread, but that was a little funny. haha
Anyways, I just read this thread. I'm so sorry to hear that. I really can't imagine what it's like to lose a pet that belongs to my children.
**hugs to your kids** |
| I've had a hard time imagining poor squeakers teeth just laying there......seems like there should be some sort of closure. God forgive me for my irreverance (and Daisie and Madalyn) but it just seems like poor Squeakers teeth should be laid to rest.
And I agree another guinea pig would be a replacement not ANYMORE!! |
| No your right, as sad as it is for a child to experience her first pet's death, it is kinda funny that the only thing left behind were the teeth. No I didn't have a funeral for the teeth...I don't think that is needed. It was pretty gross to find them on the stone patio, took me a second to realize what I was looking at ... shudder
As far as another goes, he said no, we will just wait for this one to die, and then no more ... see if I get another then we could be bound to it longer, and they are quite the expense somedays when you've got other things to buy. So just one the food will stretch farther, the shavings won't need changing as often etc...  So when Tansy dies, we are not having any more caged pets, until we move to the country and then I can consider a rabbit (outside/inside)... then I will have a garden, space, and rabbits are cleaner, and can be housetrained to go to a litterbox. I already have a rabbit house. I will also save my cage, it's plenty big enough for a rabbit too. There are so many of little critters at the shelters.
I might consider fostering a guniea pig...then it won't incur any extra cost, and Tansy will have a companion...we'll see. I am hoping this will bring her out of her timidness and start seeking out our company like Squeakers did. [/u] |
| You know it never occurred to me that shelters would have samll animals!!! That just amazes me!!!
In all seriousness though Daisie the loss of a pet is a terrible experience for a child ESPECIALLY when it is traumatic and I do not make light of it. I think one reason I keep dwelling on it is because when I was VERY young, 8 I think, I had two hamsters. I do not know what happened but one morning we woke to find one hamster running rather insanely on the wheel and the other dead and half eaten. it was a horrifying site which 40+ years later is still vivid in my memory. So I certainly empathize with your experience. To this day I will have nothing to do with hamster, gerbils and sorry to say guinea pigs. Rabbits on the other hand do make great pets  |
Tasker's Mom wrote: In all seriousness though Daisie the loss of a pet is a terrible experien
Let me share a quick example: As a child, we lived on a farm. We didn't have animals but one day, when I was about 8, my dad came home with three baby ducks and gave them to me to take care of. It was summer time and I would take them to our pond with me and I fed them and treated them like my own. After about 3 or 4 months, one day I came home from shopping wiith my mother and my grandmother (my father's mother) was there-- making soup. Duck soup. Talk about traumatizing a child. I'm still bothered about that until this day and I will never forget it. Those things stay with you. |
| EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! |
| That would be horrible, I grew up on a farm too, and fortunately for me, you grow accustomed to pets dieing...doesn't make you hard to it, but it's just life as I knew it. I've never had to see a pet live to die of old age, even Squeakers had a few more years left I am sure.
Fortunately I was the only one to find Squeakers, for some reason I always am the first to check on the cage, fish bowl, bird cage when we had them...to make sure if any died in the night it was removed and they wouldn't see it. No point in giving them a bad memory, they can know about death but I don't want them to see it....they see enough dead mice left on the doorstep. She is only six, so maybe if she was older she'd want to have a buriel, but not yet. |
| I watched my Hamster Whisky aka Whiskers die of a heart attack. He was laying there dying and his babies were running around and playing even trampling him.
I took him out of the cage and held him until he took his last breath. Mom refused to bring him to a vet. Poor Whiskers
Two pets I will NOT allow in my house are fish and birds. My Dad had fish when I was a kid so I always wanted one. My cousin Allison caught a fish for me in the stream behind her house. I think I was about 6 yrs old at the time. I had him for two years. He used to come right up to the waterline to be petted.. I know it's weird. Anyway. My Sister, Mom and I went to the Beach for the weekend and Dad was supposed to take care of my fish. When I came home he was floating.... YUCK!! I can't handle ever looking at dead fish. Then my First Husband decided he wanted fish. I told him if they died the needed to be removed immediately. Needless to say the weren't I had to cover the tank with newspaper so I could walk by it. YUCK!! I get so freaked out by dead fish. He uncovered the tank claiming that he had gotten the dead ones out. I went to feed them and behind the rock formation I saw something floating up. It was a fish skeleton I wanted to kill him.
I almost passed out. And birds...well I don't like them and they don't like me... PERIOD! I was attacks by two Blue Jays. One when I was 8 the second time at 15. I duck everytime I see a bird coming my way. Elissa |
| Poor Elissa!!!
The traumas of childhoo!!! |
| Thanks Ginny...
I forgot to mention when the hamsters ate their entire litter...EWWW Talk about tramatizing! Elissa |
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| Yeah, hamsters are bad for that...yuck... |
| I am so sorry> |
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