guinea pig

It’s my guinea pigs and my first late fall/winter in an apartment complex in Maine where there is no heating beside space heaters (too early for them at the moment) and I’m wondering how I can keep them warm. They are indoors with me in my bedroom and I currently cover half of their cage with a...

Hi all, I’m new here, today, after finding this forum looking on the internet for possible identification of some nasty eye infection and possibly related boil behind my Guinea Pig’s ear. I know he needs to see a vet and we’ve booked an appointment but we can’t get in until Friday. (The one...

Hello, I am a teenaged girl with divorced parents. I have been having a really rough time being at my mom’s house on the weekends because she is gone from 3-12 on most weekends. I love my guinea pig, but when I am alone and upset he is always standoffish (it’s just his personality) and even...

Hi everyone I’m new here! I just need some advice, my 5 year old sow was taken to vets 3 days ago because she’d had a eye infection, which quickly turned into sneezing & popping noises as well as really heavy breathing so they gave us baytril 0.4 twice a day, Anyways.. so I took her back...

Hi I've had my guinea pig for over six years now and she barely has problems but she recently started having soggy smelly poop so I put her medicine and it seemed to get better before she started peeing brown and chunks of white so I took her off and put her on charcoal which seemed to help but...

Hii everyone, just wondered if you could help, there's been an dark orange colour to my guinea pig's pee and I don't know what I should do about it, it's been going on for two days now. Any advice?

First time guinea pig owner here! My guinea pig's urine is light pink and her bum is constantly wet. She has not been squeaking in pain but is drinking more than normal. Some of her poos are irregularly shaped (long or small). Are these signs of illness? What should I do? :ple: Also, she was...

Ugh. I'm frantically annoyed, I really truly am. The amount of vet visits we've been to over these last few months, and yet she's massively suffering right now and has been suffering for months; background - - It first started with hearing distressing noises out of her, sometimes during the...

Hello all, I’ve had guinea pigs for a couple years now and was just wondering what everyone else calls them as a collective. We often say things like ‘time to give the fuzzy butts a snack’ or we call them ‘the boys’ so just wondering what everyone else uses!

Hello. Would you help me identify the three certainly different types of hay in this picture? I've marked them as A, B, and C. Please note that the C type is what small amount was left in the bag. It's not usually this leafy. In fact, it's the thinnest hay I've ever bought and snap quite...

Hi, I’ve been concerned about my furry friend. He makes a new and strange sound. I have no idea what this is. He is only 1 years old. I have also noticed that he is less active and not the same. Guinea pig strange sound Thanks!

Hello! I have 3 male Guinea pigs and I’m looking for advice on their housing/relationship situation. First of all, I’ve got two together and the third pig is by himself (right next to the other cage, they still interact!) Two of my boys have been together from the start, over a year old now. One...

I've noticed my guinea pig hasn't been eating or pooping much and she had a wet behind when i picked her up to check on her. I cleaned her up and noticed she had this spot on her underside and couldn't find anything online that looks like it, it's a brownish colored lump and at first i thought...

Hello I am new to the site and a first time Guinea pig owner just looking for an answer I have a question about. I bought 2 male Guinea pigs (vet gender checked) about 2 months ago, they are reaching approx 5 months old at the end of June. The boys I have come from 2 different litters. Tonight I...

Hello, I’m very new here and in need of help from this forum, I am well aware that I should go to the vet to get this checked out, but money is tight at the moment and we’re still making decisions, I own six guinea pigs currently, and two of them (my oldest ones, Smores and Callie) have been...

I bought my bf a Holland lop baby and made her a 4x2 c&c enclosure until she's litter trained, but I also have guinea pigs and am wanting to upgrade their cage to a 4x2 as well (they currently have a XL living world cage) I'm just wondering how far should their enclosures be apart? I read up on...

Hi ^^ Our piggies are obsessed with grapes. Whenever they smell them, they go crazy! As we’ve read on the forum and other sites, guinea pigs should only be given grapes about once a week… But we gave about 7 each to the piggies this week. (Because they’re so cute when they beg for food and lick...

3 year old guinea pig ! :)

Hi has anyone had this issue before or is there a vet that can help? My Guinea pig has been sneezing very often for 2 months and getting a runny nose (just one nostril & clear fluid) He’s absolutely fine in himself the vets say it’s NOT an infection because the runny nose is clear and he’s...

Hi dear piggy parents, my name is Monica, I found a wired black spot on my piggy’s belly this afternoon,it is not her nipple, and the skin under that wired spot is black too, her poop is normal and she’s eating well and when I touched that spot she didn’t feel hurt or uncomfortable, the vet was...