Crawley Guinea Pig Rescue

 

All going well, rehoming slowed down, Lord Charles one of my resident pigs had a stroke one evening, nursed him through and now he is on the slow road to recovery, he is an OAP so things have slowed down with him, very keen on Daves syringe mix!

 

We have been given a free pitch at the October Autumn Fair at the South of England Showground which is a 2 day event so hopefully this will be good fun and to get the rescue name out there and a bit more known plus educate people on keeping piggies.

 

Had a weeks holiday in the South of France, the animals were in very good hands, looked after by Debbie, many thanks.  Managed to bond one of my moody fiesty sows with another sow, have tried with many sows over the last year and a half, they are now inseperable.

 

The Guinea Pig Haven forum have had an auction and along with Cavy Corner up in Doncaster we were given a very large donation from the proceeds.  This will be spent on piggie things. I am not sure exactly what yet, I will have to consult Lord Charles who is top pig.

 

 

 

I have also booked my stall space at the Copthorne Carnival, West Sussex for June 26th.  This is an all day event for us and we are entering the competion of best dressed stall....photos to follow!!!!

For our first ever stall we took £63.20 which was excellent, I paid the stall fee of £22 out of my own money so the money we took was used to buy veggies for the following week!

Thank you to my helpers on that day.

Beth from East Grinstead won the guess the weight of the piggie, well done.

 

 

Rehoming going well with a couple of the long stays getting good homes.

 

Squeak is 100% well, he is putting weight on and is no longer on the dining room table, he has had a gungy eye but with a quick wipe this seems to clear up within 24 hours.

 

 

Well things don't always go to plan and the summerhouse didn't get put up until March so all the guinea pigs have been indoors in our sitting room over the winter.

4 of the boyz are now in a foster home as they haven't had any interest. 

Squeak hasn't been too well, he lost nearly 100g in weight but with some intensive nursing he is back up and running.  He was undiagnosed so I will keep my eye on him over the next few weeks.  Thank you to all the lovely donations for the piggies that come in.

 

 

Myself and my partner have been working very hard in laying hardcore, sand and cement for a base for a summer house.  This summer house will house about 18 guinea pigs through the winter months with heating and power.  We hope to have it finished by Christmas.

The summer house was free from a property in Cornwall, I just had to pay for the van hire and petrol to get it back here.  Luckily the building material I had a discount of about 20% which all helps so thanks to www.buildbase.co.uk for that.

 

 

Please remember about bonfire night and the other nights around this time of year with regards to frightened guinea pigs.  If possibly cover them up if in outside hutches or better still take them indoors for the evening for a cuddle. 

 

I have registered Crawley Guinea Pig Rescue with the charity commision, now need to get £5000 going through the bank account to obtain charity status.  I am hoping I can get this status by 2011

 

 

At the moment I have some nice new 4ft hutches for the single boars and single sows but I have 4 guinea pigs who are in old, small hutches.  This has been manageable as during the summer they are out in the runs during the day and only come into the hutches on a cold night, now, they are in the hutch for longer due to the weather. So......... I am launching Rent a Hutch!  click on this link or copy and paste  http://crawleyguineapigrescue.org/Rentahutch.aspx

 

 

I have decided that I need a holiday! I am very lucky in the fact that I can go away for a few days and leave my fiance in charge but we would like to go away together for a whole week!!!

I am going to have to find someone who is local to Crawley who would like a small part time job of feeding, cleaning, watering etc around 23 guinea pigs for 7 days.

I will obviously pay so please do get in contact if interested.