health and illness

My 1 year old little baby died today and I have no idea what happened. I clean their cage out daily. I clean all bowls, and cage with a special safe disinfectant spray. They eat kale twice daily in addition to their Timothy hay (natures own with dandy lion) as well as the pellets. I change their...

I have had my piggies for about a month and a half now. They're both about 1 year old. My Abyssinian piggy Chary has a scaly, scabbed wound on his left ear and I am worried about what it could be and how it got there. Any ideas what it could be?

It's been 3 days since Chamomiles been taking antibiotics for a urinary tract infection. I gave them 2x a day and then about an hour later I'd give her a probiotic and have even given her some 'poop soup' as well. This morning I woke up and she was making weird sounds, something similar to a...

ok so I recently discovered that one of my piggies, Chamomile, has a urinary tract infection. I took her to the vet, who gave me some antibiotics, and told me that I would also need to give her something probiotic, because she needs bacteria to digest vegetable matter. He advised giving her...

My guinea pig, salty is currently ill, and we strongly believe it is associated with pooing as his ass is starting to be very brown (covered in poo) as we constantly clean it (once every two days) as he also squeaks whilst pooing (squeaks at least 5 times) and then lets out a strange squeak. I...

Hi, I hope someone can advice and reassure me. I'm new to guinea pigs, I have two little boys. Yesterday I noticed around Dexters eyes he had lost some hair and it looked sore i asked a couple of people and they said it's a fungal infection, I can't afford to take both the piggies to the...

I found my guinea pig lying down on his side and he won't move, he's still breathing and twitches now and again, but he won't get up, or eat, he took a bite of his carrot but half of it just sat in his mouth, please help me. My parents are out for the night, it's the middle of the night, the vet...

Hi all, one of our Guinea pigs has a small lump and a small bald patch on her left ear. We also find a large bald red patch behind her left ear. Is this a sign of fungal or mite infection? Or is it something else?

My Guinea pig has just eaten some pizza crust. He grabbed it off my plate and ate it. Is this dangerous? I'm totally panicking

We were told this morning that Pip (nearly 6yo) has renal failure. He's very, very wet and his poop isn't normal. He's also quite swollen underneath at the back, but feels like he's losing weight, feeling quite bony down his back. He's still fairly lively, but he's always been the most sociable...

Yesterday I was doing floor time in a big space with my two guinea pigs who are brothers, Alan and Blondie. I left them alone for a little bit to clean their cage. They live together in one cage but they are seperated from each other because they always use to have little squabbles that die off...

Hello! Today I took out my guinea pig, Galibi, and as I petted her I noticed something rough in her hair. At first I thought something small was caught in it, but I decided to move back her hair and found that she instead had a scab. She does not share her cage with another pigs and when I...

Hi All, A few weeks ago I noticed two wee lumps on my pigs belly. They didn't seem to be bothering him at all and I thought I would wait a little while to see if his behaviour changed or if they grew in size before making an appointment at the vets. However, after looking on here I have seen a...

Hi, I have not posted for a really long while but I am having a bit of an emergency! I think my pig has bloat. On one side his stomach appears to be distended slightly and when I tap it sounds hollow. The other side however is fine. He's still eating, drinking and toileting like normal.He is...

Hi there everyone, My 5 year old male guinea pig Maple recently started showing URI symptoms (crusty nose/eyes, wheezing, sneezing etc). I took him straight to the vet who prescribed him with a week course of antibiotics and some decongestant, (no probiotics, but luckily researched this and...

Hello, I'm new to this forum and have joined due to terrible circumstances. I suddenly and unexpectedly lost my two female piggies this morning, Willow and Buttercup. They were both rescues and were 2 years old and we took them to the vet when we first rescued them for a check up and they got a...

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Hello, about two months ago I got my guinea pig Cindy. I took her to the vet because I noticed she was sneezing a bit, and sometimes she made a small quiet popping sound. But I read online the popping sound could be due to long teeth, the sound doesn't sound like crackling or wheezing. I took...

Hi! I own two male guinea pigs they have been together since birth and one of them started to make a plastic bag rattling sound the other week. We took him to the vets and he gave us some antibiotics. We gave him that but then a few days later he started to make the sound again, this time on...

I am concerned about coughing/ sneezing I have observed on-going (on/off) in near enough all five of my pigs. My only male, Rex (the main culprit), has previously been examined and I was told he has healthy lungs, so it might be more of an allergy based problem. I figured since it is occurring...