help advice needed

Hi everyone i have attached a photo of my piggy Bear’s, foot. I don’t know if something is wrong or if his foot is just naturally red like that. He is very hard to pick up, he just now started trusting me by coming up to the cage to see me. I have never been able to really look at his feet. The...

Hello all my guinea pig has been sounding very strange and coughing lately, I don't know if it could be a respiratory infection as I've token her multiple times to the vet and they said she's fine and healthy. She doesn't sound like how a normal guinea pig should, I don't know how to describe...

Hi i am new to this website so bare with me. My name is Rae, This morning i woke up to my Guinea pig Betty Sue stuck in her hay bin. ive already gotten her free but when i was googling one after another i found no answers what to do. i have no money for a vet at the moment (i can cal my father...

So just to star, I just got home from college so I have not been home in a month and I went to see my Guinea pigs (both male), and I noticed one wasn’t walking on his back legs just hopping and his back leg was sticking out a lot. He had a huge lump in the back towards his left hind leg so I...

Hi all! I have a 5.5 year old pig who has recently had an issue with her teeth - they got a little long and one of her top incisors is growing at an angle which will either hit her bottom ones or slot behind them. She went off her food for a couple of days and that's when we noticed. She has...

Hello! one of my pigs (3, female) has been making this clicking noise. It stops sometimes and doesn't seem to happen when she breathes and I can't pinpoint where it's coming from, It almost seems like she's purposefully making these noises. She has no other symptoms of a URI or other respiratory...

One of my guinea pigs has rock hard crusty stuff on his lip, I’m assuming boar glue🙄 and it’s making it droop, he doesn’t seem to be in pain and he’s just eaten some lettuce. How on earth do I get it off? I’ve soaked it with a flannel and it will not budge, I don’t want to cut it as the hair is...

Good morning all hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend. So in my previous post/thread there had been a none visable fighting episode between Mr Gibbs and Sylvio my two skinny pig boars I had gathered there had been a fight as there was scratches on mainly Sylvio and what looked like...

A couple days ago I noticed my baby Ramen’s eye was looking weird and I looked all over the internet to try and find out what’s wrong with her but never found anything. :td: Her behavior hasn’t changed much and she still takes care of herself like before, but she hates it when I try to touch...

hi there i hope there is someone around atm .... sorry I haven't been on in a while but I am in the need of some advice about My Gibbs & Sylvio My 2 Skinny Pig boys, (13 weeks old) I have noticed some dominance traits ( from what ive read up on) between them, the noises and Mr Gibbs mounting...

Hi just adopted my piggie Cosmo only 2 days ago. Since he got home he’s been scratching and biting himself. I thought it was mites so I treated with ivermectin, small improvement but still itching. Now, he’s given out discharge through his nose, refusing to eat much, very lethargic and laying...

Hi Everyone, a little over two weeks ago one of our beloved guinea pigs developed an abscess on her cheek. The vet recommended that it was marcupialised. The operation took place within a couple of days. However, after the marcupialisation, the abscess did not continue to drain out, despite...

Hello, I had NO idea what to post this thread in, all i saw was baby care. Anyways, I have two adult male guinea pigs, and I’m planning on getting a baby male guinea pig soon. I don’t know how to introduce them, or anything like that. My boys can be very territorial when it comes to new pigs (i...

Hi, my guineapig has an abscess in his mouth. He tries to eat but get hurt and give up. He still eats his pellet tho. I can’t make him eat vegetables or hay :( I took him to the vet and he started taking antibiotics and painkillers. It’s his 3rd day on antibiotics today. He still is having...

Hello all, My guinea pig fluffy was just diagnosed with Arthritis two days ago 😭He is about 5.5 years old. He has it in his spine and knees and it’s painful enough that he’s not walking. The vet prescribed Meloxicam for pain relief but he’s still crying when I pick him up to clean his poop. I...

Hi everyone, i desperately need some help. I have been finding ‘ snail-like’/slime trails in my guinea pig hutch (outside) in particularly one corner of the hutch. Not only this, ive also found small bead-like white/green substances. Please someone help me, i have blitzed the hutch and pulled...

Hi, so I'm a new owner of a bonded pair of guinea pigs I recently adopted called Harold and Henrietta. I was kind of worried about Harold's behaviour. I've been giving him pellets and veggies to eat, and he would take the pellets from me before, but he stopped taking them from me as much after I...

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 Ive recently introduced a new baby pig to my two other piggies. The baby got a dry bald patch near its head which I think is ringworm and I don’t know what to do. I’ve separated my Guinea pigs for now but they’ve already been exposed. How long should I continue quarantining them? How long...

so i was taking my guinea pig out normally on my bed. and he was laying down on me and all of a sudden his heart completely stopped i picking him up he was like dead i was kinda tapping him and he was still limp and not moving i got very scared and next thing you know he’s moving.. he looked...