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Hi! So Penelope is around 5 years old. Quite a few months back she had started hooting and was put on antibiotics to see if it stopped. It continued off and on for a while until she randomly got a bunch of fluid in her abdomen. She was then put on furosemide and was diagnosed with a little bit...

Hi all! I gotta rush my guinea pig to the emergency vet in the morning…only weeks after the death of my last one (due to a mass, not a contagious illness) I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar and what the outcome was, or if anyone had any input while I wait...

Hi, I have an approx 6 yo gpig who has lived with me for 4.5 years. She has been extremely healthy. Over the course of a week she went off pellets and hay, then gradually stopped all veg. My (supposedly) cavy savvy vet thinks X-rays show kidney disease, enlarged heart, either cancer/pneumonia...

this past tuesday, a guinea pig i took in from a neglect situation passed away. she was very clearly sick when i got her at around 4 months old - had been fed only pellets, literally sitting in her own pee, being kept in a hamster cage, chunk ripped out of her ear, visibly underdeveloped and...

Hi, I’m new to forums and stuff so bear with me. So a couple hours ago, I woke up in the night and heard a weird short moaning sound that kept repeating coming from my guinea pig cage, I got my two guinea pigs out (both females) and realised one of them kept on making a hooting kind of sound...

Hi please can you help me and my guinea pig Ruby Ruby was suddenly struggling to breathe late on Saturday night (she looked like she was at deaths door), I took her to the vet who did X-rays, gave her meds and oxygen and kept her in for a two of nights to monitor her. She came back home today...

I'm an owner of 1 year old guinea pig. Several monthes ago my pig started sound strange, like whistle or howl and it happens only in the morning. My vet diagnosed that it's rhinitis and prescribed to use Fluimucil. But it gets only worse. The sounds started happen more often and not only in...

I am really at a loss of what to do anymore:( nobody seems to have a slight incline what could be wrong with my pig, even the vets. I've taken Willow to two vets- I rescued her from someone at college who could no longer care for her, I was told she had a sever respiratory infection while with...

Hello, I´am sorry for my bad english. One of my sow SNOW WHITE(2 years old) making hooting sound from 6 months of her age. She has tooth problem (every 5 weeks trim molars). in the Czech Republic vets do not want to prescribe medicines for heart problems in guinea pigs, even specialist for...

I haven't really been on here in ages. I've been so busy travelling with work then my Mum's been really ill on top of the pigs being ill too :( I have a horrible feeling Toast has a heart problem. For well over 6 months now she's been making the hooting/crackling sounds accompanied with...

Hello, everyone. About two weeks ago, I noticed that my three and a half year old boar, Erik, was breathing heavily and had lost some weight. I immediately took him to the vet, who x-rayed him and discovered lots of fluid around his lung. There was so much fluid you couldn't even see his heart...

My beautiful Peruvian girl, Chanel passed away last night. I found her this morning laid out on top of a snuggle sack with her eyes open. She was only 11 months old and this has come as a huge shock to me, I am completely devastated. She was a perfectly healthy guinea pig. She did have a...

Hello everyone! My wonderful baby Atlas (m) is back on antibiotics for the third time since i got him 4 months ago. When I bought him (stupidly) from a PetSmart, I quickly found that he was sick. We went to the vet and he had severe pneumonia and a URI. He was on baytril and a dieuretic for 2...