not eating hay

Last month, one of our senior Guinea pigs passed away, leaving our other boy without a cage mate. I’ve posted on local small animal rehoming groups to try and find another adult male to bond him with, but haven’t found anyone yet. I really want to get him a partner but till then we pay extra...

I am hoping someone can help. i have an 8 and a half year old piggie who until very recently was very healthy. in two weeks his weight has dropped 200g and he weighs around 700g. in june he was diagnosed with an upper respiratory infection causing a crusty/weepy eye which periodically gets...

My poor girl, Bailey, has been struggling for about a month with a URI. She is taking .2 ml of Enrofloxacin and .24 ml of Meloxicam daily. I have been to the vet 3 times and I am scheduling one this morning when my vet opens, however, it will probably be a few days until she gets an appointment...

so, around a day ago i noticed my pigs werent eating much hay. not the hay they already have in the cage or hay i give them when they wheek for food. They both will eat fruits, veggies, pellets and specifically the oxbow vitamin c treats. But not hay, theyll chew at it and sniff but they just...

Hi everybody. My Penelope usually has to have her molars trimmed about once a year. She just turned 4. She’s been having this since she was about 2-2 1/2. She last had it done March of 2022. It’s now September 2023. I noticed she has started showing signs of needing it done again. She is...

Hi all, this is my first post but I’m at my wits end. About 2 weeks ago my boy Boomer lost interest in his hay out of nowhere, became lethargic, and is hiding much more than normal. He has lost a significant amount of weight, so much so his spine and hip bones are visible. I was able to get him...

Hello, husband and I are the loving slaves to two rescue boars who ,up until three weeks ago, were both healthy, contented boys. The poorly one, Merry, started having strange poos that were soft and would leave streaks across the GuineaDad mats in the boys' pen. So, at first I took out all veg...

Hi. My guinea pig was dropped from about 10 feet due to the mishandling of my brothers. She isn’t showing too many signs of injury, but is rather, not pooping, eating hay, or drinking water. I’ve been able to feed her lettuce but thats it. And lately, she’s been very aggressive towards me and...

Hello Everyone, Long story short, I have a female guinea pig, about 9-10 months old, that used to be very docile, very friendly, not afraid of me (still hiding from time to time, but curious of my voice, when I'm near the cage, licking my fingers through the cage and outside, all good signs...

Hi everyone! My baby Peach doesn't seem to eat hay (I see her rarely munching on it, but she is always wheeking for her favourite food - a muesli dry mix, which she was fed at her breeder and I am trying to remove from her diet). She certainly doesn't have 80% hay in her diet at the moment, and...

On Thursday, May 7, I opened a fresh new bag of hay (I use Oxbow's Timothy Hay/Orchard Grass Blend). Neither of my guinea pigs seemed that interested and preferred instead to eat what was left of their old bag; hay that was arguably less fresh and getting stale. But even then, they did not eat...

Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone would be able to offer some advice for my piggy Lilly (who will be 4 next week! :lol:). She went to the vets on april 8th to get her teeth checked as she had some trouble eating. They checked her teeth (removed some sharp edges and made her two upper...

Hello everyone. So, I have a guinea pig that I've had for exactly one month now, named Chestnut. During the first couple of weeks of Chesnut being with us, he always ate his hay, and I constantly needed to refill it. Less than a week ago, my fiance and I went on a week and a half long trip and...