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| Name: |
Freja
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Age: |
Two years, four months old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Guinea Pig
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| Home: |
Denmark
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Freja
and her siblings were born late at night on the 16th of february
2012, she was the first to be born at around 11 pm. In the morning
when I came to check on the three babies and their mum, I was very worried
for her, she was the runt, and her siblings seemed to keep pushing her
away so she couldn't get any milk. The mother was a first time mother,
so to be sure it all went well, I decided I needed to help. I was sure
Freja would not make it, she was so slow and nonresponsive, and as the
days passed, she was much slower at doing anything, eating, trying new
things, and she was very passive, sitting in the corner. I kept
watching over her to make sure she learned how to drink milk, where
the water was and encourage her to try new things like her siblings
and teach her other things, her mother, thankfully picked up that she
needed to watch over her a bit, and let her have extra long drinking
turns when the others were playing.
Now, years later, Freja is a completely different piggy, after she got
a younger roommate to keep her company, she started to really
flourish, she even gets along with her sister, who doesn't bully her
anymore, so that is wonderful, they like to lay and sleep next to one
another as seen on the picture. Freja acts like the groups mother
towards the younger females, cleaning them behind the ears and
nuzzling them often. She is still a very quiet guinea pig when calling
for food or wheeking, even biting the bars she does without sound, you
have to listen very closely, at first I thought she was unable to
speak, but she will sound her pipes aloud if she is outside of the
cage and she can hear the others are being fed, so she's let me know
she can be noisy, very noisy actually, if she wants to, but she
prefers to be quiet and goofy. I had her to the vet a few times to
make sure she was not sick, since she acted so strange, but she is
just very quiet. Now she acts as if she is a baby, a late bloomer and
she is making up for all the play time she didn't do when she was a
baby, she loves to get tickled, and will roll over on her side kicking
her legs and popcorning, and she loooooves a chin and ear rub. And on
the floor she is very cheeky, she goes to explore places she knows are
forbidden and she loves to run, she s really come out of her shell and
I couldn't be more thrilled to see what a goofy, loving happy pig she
has become!! Freja is also daughter of Eros, who was pet of the day
may 6th 2013, and she looks like a black version of him.
I am so happy she made it, and that she, despite being pushed a bit
aside, is so loving and can get along with other pigs, she is very
affectionate towards humans,everyone can take her out. She will climb
into your hands if you put her hands down to her, she is very trusting
and downright lazy when out, she can stay out for hours just sleeping
next to you and she lays all flat with her eyes closed. We have a very
close bond, since I was like a second mother to her, and I am sure she
remembers me helping her through a rough start in life, and in return
showers me with affection and kisses and a soft-spoken wheek.
Since she is so quiet, she is also very careful, even if she wants to
be adventurous. If there is a strange object suddenly where it wasn't
yesterday, she won't go near the spot, she is a a scaredy-cat, and she
wont budge to move close to the strange object even if I show her its
not dangerous, she doesn't like changes too much. She also eats super
slow, and enjoys her food, especially rare treats like water melon in the summer.
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