health advice

Advice needed please! We have 2 girl guinea pigs around 2 or 3 (unsure as rehomed) & they have got hay mites! This is the second time they’ve had them, when we got them in February they came with the mites. We bathed them & put treatment on and thought that would be it but now we’ve noticed...

Hi everyone! (Long post) Please move if I put it in the wrong section I’m new to joining the forum, this being my first post, but I have been a reader for quite a while and have learnt so much. Last week, I took my two 5 month old girls to the vet as I suspected early signs of possibly a URI...

After an incident about a year ago with guinea pig lice, I regularly check my boys skin/hair for anything wrong. I’ve noticed recently that they both seem to have white flakes around their back ends and I can’t seem to figure out why. I’m thinking it’s just dry skin or maybe dandruff caused by...

Hello, I've been concerned about my skinny because he started pooping very little like a week ago. Now usually I would take him into the vet because little poop means little eating but hes had small poops before because he can be very picky with food. but now I'm worried because his eyes are...

Hello, I've noticed a couple times now that my skinny pig will randomly get red ears. He a pale pig so its very noticeable in comparison to his body. He pretty healthy boy, the only difference I've noticed are his poops are a little smaller than usual and sometimes dehydrated but he does eat a...

Hi everyone! My guinea pig Kovu has been undergoing treatment for a UTI, she’s been on loxicom and cystophan for a few weeks now, had to cancel my vet follow up visit Saturday as I’d come down with a cold, and with the current pandemic didn’t want to risk making anyone sick, and Kovu has been...

hello! does anyone know what to do if your guinea pig has a dry ear? she has some dry spots the outside of her ear, i doubt it is anything but just thought i would ask people on here to make sure she is okay! i haven’t seen her scratch it but if it is anything, i want to treat it as soon as...

Hi guys, We have 5 lovely, female guinea pigs - 3 short haired and 2 teddy bear. Over the last month or so I’ve had incredibly itchy skin after (sometimes during) holding the piggies. My partner has had similar, but no where near as bad as me! I don’t suffer from eczema either, so I doubt...

Back story: I’ve had a long journey with my guinea pigs so far and need some health advice. I bought two piggies from petsmart about a month ago. One of them started to seem noticeably sick within a week and a half of having her. She ate, drank but just seemed off (rough coat, sunken eye). We...

Hello everyone. I am a new piggie owner and just adopted 2 guinea pigs named Piplup and Artemis. They are about 2 years old. I keep them in the corner of my room where I play with them. I just purchased a bundle of natural cinnamon to enhance the aroma of my room for the upcoming fall season...

Hi all, Just made this account because I’m worried about my guinea pig and am not sure if this is cause for concern. I’m new to raising piggies, and would be grateful for any thoughts on this. My girl is just a couple months old, and I was trying to take a closer look at her nipples because I...

Hi everyone, it's my first post on here! I have an issue with my guinea pig and am curious to know if anyone had a familiar issue like this with their guinea pig? Yesterday I had noticed a bump/lump on my guineapig's back. When touching it, my guineapig seemed very irritated by it. He is...

Hi Everyone, I have been reading through threads to see if I could find anything similar to what my guinea pig is going through! It all started about 3 months ago that I noticed my guinea pig before bed started to make a hooting noise and almost cracking with her breathing. However this then...

This morning my guinea pig stopped eating for the most part. He seemed to be eating okay yesterday but now he turns his nose up to everything. He only ate a tiny piece of lettuce and two small treats and now he refuses everything. I know he’s sick but I can’t make a vet appointment until...

Hi, I took my boar to a "dating" session at a rescue yesterday. He spent about 15 minutes meeting this one boar until a fight broke out. They were separated a few seconds later. He then "dated" a 6 week old baby boar and they got along great. I adopted the baby and so far so good with them...

My piggy - Chuck, is only 2 years old. Last July 2020 he developed his first UTI which was treated effectively. In March this year we spotted blood in his urine and him making squeaking noises when weeing, this was discovered to be a bladder stone. We put him through a cystotomy and he recovered...

Hello! I have a 2 year old guinea pig, Charlotte. Poor girl is having a hard time health-wise. She had to visit the vet on Thursday as I suspected bladder stones. The vet did an x-ray and saw two small stones that she said she could pass on her own. One of these was already in her urethra, and...

So for the past two weeks or so I’ve had a runny nose snd watery eyes that comes and goes. I originally thought this could be a cold or something like that, but today I held my guinea pigs and within 5 minutes my nose was red, irritated and running like water and my eyes were red and watery. I...

Please help! I’m a new owner, I’ve had my babies for 2 weeks and I came home from college to cuddle my piggies and discovered Caramel (3 months old) had lost his top tooth and the other was bent inwards and also falling out! I’ve never had this, I check them over and he does chew the bars of...

Hi, whilst holding Oreo today (about 20 mins ago!) I found a weird spot on her nose. Its white and feels solid, she doesn’t seem in pain when I touch it. I haven’t noticed it before and hold her everyday, so I think it’s appeared very recently. She’s otherwise her normal self, eating and...