Special Needs Piggies

The Cuddlecup Campaign
To Lovingly Spoil Our Special-Needs Piggies & Those Less Likely to be Adopted
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Large Chew Tube $5	Cuddlecup Fleece Bed $11	Kabob Chew Treat $8
Peek-a-Boo Grassy Hutch $11	One Month of Care $30 Two Months of Care $60 Three Months of Care $90	Six Months of Care $180 One Year of Care $360

Sometimes, guinea pigs stay at the Rescue for years and are never adopted.
These piggies often have ongoing health issues, or they’re senior piggies who’ve been passed over by chance time and again. You can help!  We would like to give these long-term piggies a few creature comforts they would have received had they been adopted and spoiled at their own permanent family home. Your gift to the Cuddlecup Campaign will go directly to purchase a gift for your sponsored piggy, and we’ve made a few suggestions above.  In addition, you are welcome to stop by the Rescue on any Saturday to visit your sponsored piggies.

To donate securely online, please use the PayPal link below, or send a check made out to: Texas Rustlers GPR, 160 Cedarcrest Lane, Double Oak, TX 75077.  Be sure to let us know which piggy and item you’d like to sponsor (at the +Add special instructions to the seller link if using PayPal).  Thank you!

A Few of Our Special-Needs Piggies Helped by Sponsorship:
Emergency Rescue Piggies!  Since arriving at the rescue, 4 of these mums have had a total of 10 babies, 1 of which has no eyes, 1 has only 1 eye, and at least 5 may be blind, plus there are 15 females on pregnancy watch.	“George” Eye Removal, Abcess  George came to us from Houston because his caretakers were unable to provide the medical care he needed.  He was not eating or drinking when he arrived. Several visits and bloodwork showed that he had an abscess behind his eye. He had his eye removed and all the abscess behind it cleaned out. He is on antibiotics and received daily hand feeding and fluids until he started eating again on his own.	“Jackie” Jackie (at right) was born without her top front teeth.  She recently lost her cagemate and friend Chester, pictured here with her. She goes to the vet for treatment under anesthesia every 3-4 weeks for a Teeth Float to help her survive. What’s a “Teeth Float”? Guinea pigs’ teeth are growing throughout their lifetime. They normally are filed down with a good Timothy hay diet, but in many rescue cases, the teeth have become overgrown, broken and/or abscessed and require filing down, etc. under anesthesia. If left untreated, this condition can cause painful abscesses or even death.
“Louisa” Pain and Feeding Issues Sweet Louisa has multiple issues: overgrown teeth requiring vet visits, Critical Care hand fed nutrition, pain meds, and sub-q (under the skin) fluids.	“Trio” Facial Paralysis Trio has facial paralysis and can’t blink his eye.	Thank You, Sponsors! $25 from Dawn for “George” $50 from Jonathan Padgett & Carolyn Hembree for special-needs piggies, given in the names of sister, Deborah Padgett, and her husband, Karl Staplefeldt. $100 from David & Anastasia Use as needed for the special needs piggies’ Christmas, from piggies Buddy and Mishka. $100 from Alessa & Brad “2 Kabob Chew Treats for the Emergency Rescue Piggies, 1 Grassy Hutch for George, 1 CuddleCup for Jackie, 1 CuddleCup for Louisa, 1 Kabob Chew Toy for Trio, Rest for whatever is needed. PS If any of the pigs already have any of the above items then spend the money on what you feel is best! God bless you all for taking care of these helpless little creatures.” $149 from Halstead “One cuddlecup each for the “emergency rescue” pigs, Trio, Louisa, and Jackie. Also, one chew tube for the “emergency rescue” pigs. And an extra $100 for whatever ”$50 from Steve “For your special needs piggies – cuddle cups for the ones that want them and use the rest for treats.”