Wol's Riverbank tales: Part 3 Restoration

Karmacat

:hello::hello::hello: Hi sweetie!

Your text *still* hasn't arrived! I thought it was just me switching my phone off too soon, I'm dreadful for that.

I still can't believe you've volunteered poor Lula to dig over my garden :rotfl: Lula, you don't have to! I *also* can't believe (translate that as, I *hate* to believe) you've done 4 hours of ironing? You little energizer [STRIKE]bunny[/STRIKE] guinea pig, you :rotfl:

Wol, one thing I realised is what I do in general, which is piddle about at the edges of things and take a long time to get stuck in. I *do* get stuck in, eventually, but it takes a while.

The plant sale and the mega-whatsit were great, I was so pleased you found some bargains - always worries me that something I've found isn't going to be good enough, but I'm glad that one was okay.

Got a meeting at 2, so I'm off again

**zoom**

Wol2

shaun40400 wrote: »

hi :santa2:

Hi Shaun

Good to see you back and hope you and the little lambs are all recovering.:grouphug:

Scurries off to catch up on diaries

xx

Edit: oh dear.......sorry to hear you're still "womit wigilante" :grouphug::grouphug:

spud30

Wol, is it difficult to trim piggie nails? Our 2 boys at school need a manicure

Wol2

spud30 wrote: »

Wol, is it difficult to trim piggie nails? Our 2 boys at school need a manicure

Hi spudleigh
:hello::hello:

It's pretty nervewracking even if you have a co-operative pig that doesn;t wriggle or try and nip you (try wrapping them in a towel)....and if you;ve never done it before I would advise you get the vet to do it the first time so you can see what to do and how to do it.

You need the right sort of clippers for small animal nails..(although some people use toe nail/fingernail clippers) ..and you need to be very very careful you don;t cut off too much otherwise you will cut the "quick" and the piggie will end up bleeding and possibly get an infection. Piggies with white nails are easier because you can see the pink quick but the ones with black nails are nigh on impossible and more often than not it's guess work.....:eek:.....Even the vets cut the quick sometimes and use a special "styptic pencil" to stem the bleeding. (I use cornflower...just dip the piggie nail into the powder several times until the flow stops )

Here's the link to the definitive guinea pig lexicon on the web - great for all things piggie!! Shame you're so far away or I'd offer to do them for you (13 pigs once a month = lots of practice :rotfl::rotfl:)

http://www.guinealynx.info/nails.html

Good luck!!

xxxx

spud30

Thanks for that Wol. It looks complicated and very scary. No way I'm doing it :eek:

One of the mum's (an experienced piggy keeper) offered, but hasnt done it. Maybe a trip to the vet is in order. I'll mention it tomorrow

Horace

All drama at yours then Wol..and you let some men in uniform get away too:eek:

No bridezillas at the show - just a bunch of chavs. I need to contact the various peeps who won prizes, I was very careful and listened to peeps and now the first prize has been awarded to a lovely couple (extremely well spoken) who have booked Grafton Manor Hotel now to book that place you need to have some money because its not cheap. The show was rubbish and has quite put me off doing another one. Had a good chat and have invitations to view various register offices around worcestershire and the lady the other side of me makes divine cakes - she was handing around samples of chocolate mud cake which was divine and to die for:cool: Networked with a view people and found myself agreeing to attend a breakfast meeting this Friday at 7am:eek: - I am still in bed at 7am:eek: Breakfast will cost me £10 so I shall make sure I have a full english with toast etc which should keep me going til dinner time (very MSE):D

Actually talking of food - I think I will go and cook some dinner (the whoopsie shelf in Tatco was very productive today:D).

Lemon_Tree

i've got a similar thing with my older piggie she needs a nail cut, i've done it once before and unfortunately one of them moved her toe so we had a little bit of a blood bath, now i just take a little bit off and think that i'll do it more regularly in the future ad then i get sidetracked. i'm a terrible piggie mum sometimes. Wol was just wondering how far you were from East Anglia for a lesson or two (million)

ZTD

Wol2 wrote: »

Even the vets cut the quick sometimes and use a special "styptic pencil" to stem the bleeding. (I use cornflower...just dip the piggie nail into the powder several times until the flow stops )

You can get styptic pencils from anywhere that does shaving supplies, so they're not that special...

Wol2

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

i've got a similar thing with my older piggie she needs a nail cut, i've done it once before and unfortunately one of them moved her toe so we had a little bit of a blood bath, now i just take a little bit off and think that i'll do it more regularly in the future ad then i get sidetracked. i'm a terrible piggie mum sometimes. Wol was just wondering how far you were from East Anglia for a lesson or two (million)

Hi Lemon Tree

I'm down in Sussex........and really envious of any piggie person living in East Anglia...because......

The Cambridge cavy trust (the only dedicated piggie hospital/vet in the UK that I've found) offer a really good deal for piggie health if you can get there:
http://www.britishassociationofrodentologists.co.uk/CCT.html

Membership is £25 per year includes quarterly worming, nail clipping and routine dental work free of charge, no consultancy fee and this is irrespective of how many piggies you have. You can also go on a course that teaches you how to do all of this yourself plus more.

If I lived closer, I would register as my vet charges £18 per consult...:eek:..in fact I still might register although need to work out whether it really is financially viable taking petrol into account 4 times per year

:think::think:....hmmmm... and whether I can fit 13 piggies in 9 pet carriers into my car to hoof it up the M11 - might be a bit of a squish :rotfl::rotfl:

I don;t cut my pigs nails as often as I should.....didn;t realise until recently that the more frequently you do it, the more the quick recedes and the less blood baths in the future...:o..so your idea of a little and often is very sound.

xxx

Wol2

ZTD wrote: »

You can get styptic pencils from anywhere that does shaving supplies, so they're not that special...

Cheers Z.........:beer:

Not sure if there's anywhere like that down here..but then I am a girlie (or I was last time I checked ).....

..and for us girlie sarfeners shaving supplies = sainsburys :rotfl::rotfl:

How's you tonight?

xx