Do you know that the blood vessels of a Guinea pig's toes extend right up to its nails? Which means if you clip its nails, the chances of you bleeding your piggy is very high. Therefore, I'm always stressed out whenever I do nail clipping for my little pig. Especially THIS little pig, soooo pampered, she will scream even though I didn't reach her blood vessels (in fact I've never EVER clipped so badly), she will start to give this little shivering and go all pitiful. Goshhh! Such a drama little piggy!
Because of that, I'd not make nail clipping for her as frequent as my previous Guinea pig, and as a result of me being soft hearted, her toes are a bit deformed because she need to make way for the overgrown nails. Sigh...
Just now she was walking with one of her front leg lifted, limping around - I normally let her out of her cage so I can change her bedding, every morning and evening. She will then roam around the room and will jump back into her cage herself, such an easy to take care, independent little pig. So, as I said, she was limping around and my heart skipped a beat when I saw that, after examining her, I suspect that she didn't want to step that front leg down because one of her nails was hurting her paw. True enough, after some VERY stressful nail clipping, she paddled around cheerily again.
Stress, stress...
2 comments:
hey bell. i didn't u have a guinea pig. my friend loves pets and coincidence she has guinea pigs too. maybe she can share it with you.
I know.. i was there.. poor little drama pig!
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