Guinea Pig Fun

Colleen

Hannah

After a visit to the vet: "The news was good in one way and bad in another. First, the bad. Tim would not improve as far as the paralysis went. The x-ray showed that his spine at the very bottom and up by his head was properly formed. But the middle part was sort of fused together in an undetermined mass. The vet felt that a severe calcium deficiency caused the abnormality. The good news was that, as we thought, he had no pain (and no feeling, either) from this. What we saw as movement was reflex of muscles.

Improvements were encouraging. He'd gone from barely lifting his head and having his front legs sprawled out to his side and always lying on his left hindquarters with his back legs motionless, to sitting up high with his front legs firmly in front and kicking with his back legs. We noticed he did more and more kicking ... we still had our hopes up. We were so delighted with his progress! He was a happy little fellow, had his own opinions about how his home should be arranged, talked a lot, and was a joy.

Jackie

Merry

Tiny Tim developed a mini fan base that followed his healing process and the latest news about him. Some  would write letters to him and some created drawings for him likes the ones show below.