#healthandillness

Hello, My little Piggie Peanut has been diagnosed with a uti and is on pain medication and co- trimoxazole. I’ve noticed that her poop is very small and dry. I’ve given her a few pieces of cucumber and I do give wet vegetables. In terms of everything else, she’s moving and eating and going to...

Hi everyone, I’m just wondering if anyone has experienced this and what they did. I also need to vent a bit. This year has been terrible for one of my girls. She had started with having a seizure about 9 months ago, was treated for an ear infection and then seemed okay. About a month later...

So i’ve had my guinea pig Lucy since January 11th 2024, and she’s been acting very normal and she’s actually pretty happy, though I went on a camping trip for about 6 days and I had my cousin provide them with vegetables, tbough i packed a lot more veggies than she and her sister should’ve eaten...

Hello everyone! This is my first post here, very nice to meet you all. I have two guinea pigs, father and son (Chibs and Thunder) 1 year old and 4 months old. Two days ago, the younger one hurt his foot while jumping from one of the wooden houses in their cage. As a result, he kept his foot up...

Basically the title, but hey everybody- I just introduced my bonded females to another girl and it went pretty decently- however, my new girl suddenly coughed- and when she walked away this was under her. Now granted I think she only coughed because they were all eating lettuce- and might have...

Hi all! Firstly, I'm so glad I found this forum with active members and piggie owners! To give some backstory I have 2 concerns I want to discuss. I started weighing my piggies yesterday and don't know what should be concerning or not. I have 2 girls that are about 10 months old, Maple &...

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...

My guinea pig Mimi, is Female and 10 months old. Today I discovered this stool in my 3 guinea pig’s cage. I suspected it was from the old one but after I took out Mimi, she produced more and they were all consistently soft, connected and a little smelly. What should I do? I did not notice any...

Hi everyone! My Guinea pig Lenny has had some sort of breathing issue for almost a year now. Its not life threating currently, but it has been in the past. We've gone to 2 veternarians in that time frame and they both seem stumped on what his issue is. In the beginning of this issue Lenny was...

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...

Hi guys this isn’t guinea pig related but i’m freaking out about my boyfriends hamster. She periodically makes these wheezing squeaks for a profusive amount of times. She’s about 9 months. It’s been happening for about id say two weeks give or take. She is eating and drinking normally and she is...

So my guineapig is around 3-4 years old and I went to bring him out one day and clumps of hair came off in my hands, this caused him no pain but I noticed his skin was all red and flaking underneath. His weight has decreased massively as he was quite the chunky piggy now he is skin and bone. He...

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’ve noticed that one of my guinea pigs has some crust around her eyes (but most of it is just on one). They look white to me, so I thought it could be cleaning fluid. There’s no problems otherwise. No uptick in sneezing, no noisy or labored breathing, no crust on her nose, etc. She’s...

Hello, I made this account just now to gain advice on what I should do. My young guinea pig Pico, has been more tired than usual lately. It started last night and I'm genuinely worried about his health. He's had health complications before as he has has pneumonia in the past, he took antibiotics...

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...

Hi, I was cleaning out my hairless guinea pigs cage and i noticed 2 black beetles or something. They were relatively small. They didn’t seem harmful. i squashed them and threw them away. My guinea pigs don’t seem to have anything on them and they’re eating happily and popcorning. I was just...

So a few months ago my guinea pig Ivy had a uti, was fine after that then had bladder stones, medicine got rid of them, she had another uti a week ago. But now after the medicine is done she still smells really bad, it’s like a fish smell and she’s constantly hungry, like I’ll give her a...

Hello! I’m really worried right now. Although I am experienced with guinea pigs, I am not a pro. My guinea pig recently peed pink a few days ago then it stopped and returned to their usual color. It started being pink when I slowly adjusted them to their new pellets. They loved it but shortly...

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...