Hi I’m Emily, and this is Yuri. One of the nine guinea pigs I have!

Yuri is a very special piggie to me. She was a rescue from an abandoned apartment. The second I laid eyes on her I fell I love! This was back in April.

Yuri has been fighting an issue with abscesses since I got her. We have had many rupture, and just last month we finished a surgery in hopes of solving the problem.

Unfortunately, this girlie is a very special case. The surgery was unsuccessful as they would have had to go too deep to find the bottom of the abscess hole. This would have been too risky of a surgery for just a little potato. We just had a culture done and sent off as well as getting a few more professionals looped in. It has been a very stressful journey for her and I (and her sister who can only see her from a distance!)

Every professional she has seen is stumped. At the same time, everyone is shocked at how tough she is. Guinea pigs are very fragile exotic animals, and often do not survive from things like this due to the stress it causes them. But somehow this girlie just keeps holding on.

Any bit of donation is helpful, as it is exhausting keeping up on her medical costs as well as staying on top of keeping all other eight potatoes snacking/thriving!