Adopted
Bacon Bit Guinea Pig Guinea Pig Sachse, TX
- Young
- Male
- Small
- Cinnamon, White
About
- Characteristics
- Independent, Special Needs
- Coat length
- Short
- Health
- Special needs.
- Prefers a home without
- Dogs, cats, children, other animals.
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Meet Bacon Bit
Bacon Bit is a young male Abyssinian guinea pig. He's young and we think he's still under a year old as he's a small piggy. He came to us after being surrendered to a local pet store under very bad circumstances.
He is a single piggy and is looking for a very special kind of adopter that is experienced with piggy behaviors.
Bacon Bit is a highly unusual guinea pig in that he will try to bite. Guinea pigs are not known to try to bite humans but when they do bite, they bite extremely hard. The possible reasons for this are either human hands may not have been very nice to him in the past or he's an extremely hormonal young male that just can't control himself. This is very possible as we have attempted to bond Bacon Bit with multiple other piggies several times and they all went poorly. For this reason, Bacon Bit cannot be adopted into a family with children under 13 and cannot be housed with other pigs. His temperament is the only reason he has been marked as special needs.
We interact with Bacon Bit frequently throughout the day to help desensitize him to human hands. After a bit of chasing we are able to pick him up and hold him for short periods without incident and he's learned to take food from us with very good piggy-manners. While he is housed alone for everyone's safety, he is where he can hear and smell the other guinea pigs. He just can't see them as he can get very agitated if he does.
As of the date of this posting (1/20/23) we are considering speaking with our vet about having him altered to see if that helps calm him down in the future. This isn't normally something done for guinea pigs and there's not an immediately noticeable difference after neutering a male guinea pig. It takes some time before their hormone levels begin to even out and they settle down; often about a year. And they continue to become more and more calm as time goes on. For right now we want to continue to work on taming him before we consider that option.
If you are that special kind of adopter who can give a home to the animals with the slimmest chances of ever being adopted then Bacon Bit is waiting for you.
He is a single piggy and is looking for a very special kind of adopter that is experienced with piggy behaviors.
Bacon Bit is a highly unusual guinea pig in that he will try to bite. Guinea pigs are not known to try to bite humans but when they do bite, they bite extremely hard. The possible reasons for this are either human hands may not have been very nice to him in the past or he's an extremely hormonal young male that just can't control himself. This is very possible as we have attempted to bond Bacon Bit with multiple other piggies several times and they all went poorly. For this reason, Bacon Bit cannot be adopted into a family with children under 13 and cannot be housed with other pigs. His temperament is the only reason he has been marked as special needs.
We interact with Bacon Bit frequently throughout the day to help desensitize him to human hands. After a bit of chasing we are able to pick him up and hold him for short periods without incident and he's learned to take food from us with very good piggy-manners. While he is housed alone for everyone's safety, he is where he can hear and smell the other guinea pigs. He just can't see them as he can get very agitated if he does.
As of the date of this posting (1/20/23) we are considering speaking with our vet about having him altered to see if that helps calm him down in the future. This isn't normally something done for guinea pigs and there's not an immediately noticeable difference after neutering a male guinea pig. It takes some time before their hormone levels begin to even out and they settle down; often about a year. And they continue to become more and more calm as time goes on. For right now we want to continue to work on taming him before we consider that option.
If you are that special kind of adopter who can give a home to the animals with the slimmest chances of ever being adopted then Bacon Bit is waiting for you.
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Bacon Bit
- Guinea Pig
- Young
- Male