#health

Hello, My guinea pig Ginny is seven almost eight years old! I am currently at Uni, so my mom has been taking her at my house. I come home for the weekends, and last weekend I noticed she wasn't pooping very much, and she had one very large poop that was softer and had some mucus in it. As soon...

hey, i need advice on why my guinea pig sometimes has yellow lips and he doesnt really get the zoomies

Hello, Recently my 6th month old Guinea pig’s ears have become quite dry and crusty. About 2 months ago he was treated at the vets for this around his eye. When I got treatment for him it was a tiny bottle which cost about £250 in vet bills so I really can’t spend that much again. I’m...

Hi all 🙋‍♀️ Rushed my poor little guy to the vet today, noticed he was severely tilting his head to one side and seemed a little unbalanced on his feet. The vet said it is most likely an ear infection (but did note a few other things it could be) and has prescribed him with Baytril & Metacam...

Hello wonderful fellow piggy owners, I have two 3 year old sweet wonderful boars, both of them turned 3 this year! However, unfortunately Glacier has developed early onset of arthritis in his back and knees. The vet has given him medicine and suggested to keep him in a smaller cage or area so...

About 2 months ago my Guinea pig (pumpkin) was diagnosed with a mammary tumour. They said that they think it also spread to her lymph nodes and that surgery is possible however they wouldn’t be sure that it would go away. It has gotten to point where it is giant and about the size of a golf ball...

One of my piggies, a 6 year old (though she is very energetic and acts healthy), has been occasionally spitting up a cloudy white liquid after eating hay. It doesn’t happen very often since she tends to favor vegetables and pellets, but every once in a while she’ll start to favor her hay...

Recently, I got my first scale for my four year old guinea pigs (yay) but as I weighed my them I realized that one of them seems to be at a low weight. My guinea pig Thor weighed in at around 910g but my other guinea pig Loki weighed 830g :(. Do you guys think that I should take them to the vet...

Hello! Was inspecting Sponge’s tummy today and saw this third patch above his nipple. It isn’t irritated or sore, he didn’t seem to react when I was prodding at it. Not sure if this is something to worry about, someone’s insight would be appreciated!

Hi! :) I’m back again. I think I’m just a really anxious pig mom :doh:but cookie’s weight chart is currently decreasing. He is at 1461 grams and his age is about 1.5 years old. Is this normal? Thank you!

Hi all! I was watching my guinea pigs and I noticed one of them wake up from her nap and eat two poops directly off the ground. I know they eat their poop but she ate two that I believed to be normal poops. They weren’t old as I had just swept the cage two hours prior but I’ve never seen them...

My guinea pig has had mushy poops recently, and it hasn't gone away within a week. Any idea what I should do? I've heard that Oxbow Digestive Tablets might help. It isn't Diarrhea, she hasn't been loosing weight, if anything she's been gaining X3 She's currently 4 months old. Is this normal...

I have two guinea pigs. One is around 10 months (cookie). The other is around 5-6 months. The problem is the 5-6 months (walnut) is obsessively dominant right now. He runs after cookie, teeth chatters, lunges, and forces cookie out of their cage. Their space is good. They have one Midwest cage...

I have two boys, and lately the white stuff has been increasing. Bigger areas in places where they pee more frequently. Where they sleep and relax there’s usually one or two small spots. At first it was a small amount, which I know if it’s calcium that’s normal. Lately it just seems to be...

I cleaned the bottom of my cage with some dawn dish soap and i was wondering if it was safe. Will the dawn react with kaytee bedding because I know that has absorbent stuff in the bedding. Most of it got off but the people helping me clean it didn't do it as thoroughly as I wanted, so a small...

The little metal balls and spring fell out of the metal tube part of the bottle while I was cleaning the bottle. I simply put them back in, balls first, then spring. The bottle seems to work just fine and water comes out, but I wanted to double check just in case that what I did was okay and I...

Hi guys! today i did my weekly check on my guinea pigs,and i found out that one of the 2 has yellow small buttons around his nipple , its not touching the plump, i am really scared about my guinea pig health, if some one has any idea of whats happeninf can you please tell me , thx

Hi sorry if this is long but I’m concerned about Scooby’s eye. It started September/October time last year. It started out with just a tiny lump that you could only notice if you pulled his eye back so I took him to the vets and got given some eye drops (sorry I can’t remember the name). They...

Hello everyone, I’m just wondering how much should you take your piggies out of their cage or give them lap time? How important is this and how much do you let your piggies have floor and lap time? Is once a week enough or should it be more? Thanks x

My 10 week old boy has had one heck of a ride. I’ll spare as much drama as I can. So my baby was being treated for a respiratory infection. Baytril was the first medicine and it messed up his stomach. So he got switched to Septra. At one point he was on 3 medications and oxbow critical care...