skinny

Penelope is around 5-6 years old. This year I’ve noticed her spine and hip bones becoming more prominent and boney. She has always been a small pig who weighed in the 800’sg when she was young. She’s went through some tougher times with being sick but has been in the 600g range for a while...

Hi everyone, my piggie Silvio has a lump under his neck and they are going to be doing a CT scan on him. The vet says there are risks to the scan since he will have to be put under anesthesia, and extra risk since he is underweight. We have been feeding him double takes of Emeraid but are...

First off I do have to say my guinea pig is quite old, she's around 7 years old. For the past little while she's become very skinny and lethargic but she's still very ravenous when food or treats are coming..the only problem is, she doesn't chew properly, not the way she used to atleast or like...

I have 5 piggies and all of them are healthy and normal looking except my skinny he is too skinny and I’m sooooo very worried he has a big healthy looking belly but you can see his ribs and hips he eats more than the rest of my piggies but still looks so skinny and I don’t know why and I don’t...

(She’s supposedly 2 years old, she’s been eating, but she seems to be eating less and less. She gave birth to a baby two months ago, her names Xiao-Xiao) I noticed a little less than a week ago that my one guinea pig apparently lost a lot of weight. I don’t have any kind of scale here so I’m...

I’m looking for some insight on what might be wrong with my piggie. I adopted him so his age is estimated to be 6 yrs. He has been losing weight and his today seem smaller than usual. This happened to a previous cage mate I had for him a few years ago. Vet ran blood panel and never found out...

So my guinea pig Lucy is about 5 and a half almost 6 years old. Shes recently lost quite a bit of weight. You can feel all her bones and shes really light and its quite worry some. Shes eating fine and has a good appetite. She doesnt seem to be acting any diffrent either. I dont know what the...

hi there! My Maisie has been refusing to eat and drink since last night and haslost far too much weight (she has a chubby belly but can feel ribs etc) and is over all very lethargic! She has made it through the night but vet is stumped and has told me to syringe mushed up pellets and water and...

Hi, I need some advice on what I can do to healthily fatten up my piggy? She has been steadily loosing weight for just under 3 months and despite taking her to 2 different vets 4 times they have yet to say what is wrong with her and don't even seem worried! But I know its her back teeth and she...