#help

Hi everyone I am new to this forum and have been looking for help online and wanted to see if this place would be of any use. My guinea pig black baby is I think 2 or 3 years old but he is very small and underweight for his age and it worries me constantly! I am also in a pretty messy housing...

My Guinea pig has been peeing blood. I don’t know if she has a UTI or bladder stones. What should I do? Should I take her to a vet? If so, how much would it usually cost? She’s still eating, drinking, and pooping. I’m buying urinalysis test strips to see if she has a UTI. I’m really scared...

I have two male Guinea pigs both about 3 or 4 years old. Both of started biting there feet, scratching there nose, ears, and the ball of there feet are red. can you help?

Hello, I’m recently moving to another country for a year and won’t be able to go back home for a while. My father will be taking care of my 2 Guinea pigs during that time (and he takes wonderful care of them) but the only issue I’m worried about is my Guinea pig nails. My dad is not able to cut...

Hi! I recently rehomed two amazing Guinea pigs about two months ago. I noticed they both had pinkish/red heels. However, in the past couple of weeks, it seems like they have gotten worse. They are in the midwestern cage and I took out the wire ramp to see if that might be causing an issue. I...

This morning I found a little patch of my guinea pigs fur missing, I picked her up to investigate what it was. As I was checking through her fur there was a fleshy red scab on her back. I’ve researched everything about it to figure out how it could’ve happened but i’m still not too sure. I...

Hello! I Am 13 years old and in desperate need of help. My younger guinea pig is chasing my older one and I'm not quite sure what to do.. As of right now I have built a separate C&C cage which is 2x3 to separate younger one. Was this the right decision? He is also humping the older one. he was...

Hi, I'm the owner of two lovely piggies (both female and 6 yo). Around a month ago we noticed small amount of fresh blood coming out of the vulva of one of them. We brought her to a vet specialised in exotics, which proceded to run many tests. She got 3 ultrasounds in the span of a month, each...

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...

My guinea pig has a little bald spot and I don’t know if it’s okay or not, what do you think? Please

I keep seeing white stuff in my guinea pigs eye and I hear that it’s just the eye cleaning itself and I also heard he could be sick but I don’t know which, most the time it’s worse in one eye than the other but he gets it a lot so I don’t know if it’s just the eye cleaning it’s self. But he’s...

My 4 year old GP went for a dental about 2 weeks ago and has done great, he was eating fine after the surgery. (Veg and pellets). However, from him having a sore mouth, I think he still thinks the hay is gonna hurt his mouth, and it’s quite worrying that he’s completely off his hay. He will eat...

I went to get carrots and my I came back and one of my guinea pigs (I have two) starting doing a weird thing with his mouth and it looked like he was smiling then he starting twitching so I got worried and took him out of the room and later he starting have a spasm or a seizure and putting his...

I have recently found a weird mole, potential cyst on one side of the hip bone on my guinea pig. I have been researching but only found other owners to have found this on their guinea pigs stomach. I’m slightly worried and really hope it’s nothing threatening, anyone have any ideas what is could...

During the bonding session, my two boars were working perfectly. teeth chattering, butt sniffing, and other normal behaviors. However I did notice whenever I have two water bottles and cookie was drinking out of one, walnut would take the bottle from cookie. If cookie was eating hay, walnut...

Hi there. I was crying in cookies cage and all of a sudden he started zooming around me. Did I frighten him? And I tried to calm him down and he kept biting the cage bars of walnut’s cage. Recently also, walnut and cookie have been sniffing noses and licking eachother through the bars. Sometimes...

My guineapig was making some noise in the early morning, but I didn't think much of it. Later when I checked her cage, she was PARALYSED though still breathing... it appears one of her front legs has been immobile... my parents are refusing to take my pig to the vet.. Could she possibly be in...

Today I found a weird flesh-like ball in my guinea pigs cage, it’s most likely from Minnie, she has a supposed urine infection/uterus infection we’re not quite sure but she’s on medication to help with the pain and hopefully clear it up. The fleshy mass looked like it came from her body (?) and...

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...

Hello! My guinea pig likes stretching out after a little nap or when being petted. He’s a little chubbier than “normal” piggies and when he stretched out I noticed this there’s a little wider part. When my two piggies started arguing, it led to a fight and cookie was probably grooming himself a...