tumor

Hi, I have never posted on a forum before but am desperate for advice at this point. In August 2023, my senior boar (7 at the time) was diagnosed by a vet (a new vet as our long time exotic vet had recently retired) with a mammary gland tumor/mass. She said that she could do surgery to remove...

My 3 year old pig passed last night with absolutely no signs of sickness her weight was fluctuating but nothing insane she wasn’t losing or gaining very fast, i was told it was normal and just because of the weather changes. I’m terrifed she had some sickness that will take my other pigs...

Hiya, took guinea pig to the emergency vet yesterday after realising one is is bulging and the guinea pig has lost 240 grams over two weeks. the vet said it’s a tumour and the options are either surgery to remove or pts. the eye didn’t push in at all when the vet pushed suggesting there is...

Hello everyone, My sweet baby Boozle is currently 5.5 years old. My trusted guinea pig savvy vet recently felt a lump in her abdomen. The ultrasound showed that she indeed has a mass there, and they suspected it to be uterine cancer. She thought it would be a straightforward operation, and it...

Sunday morning (Oct. 9) I picked up my 4-year-old guinea pig, Rummy, to say good morning and noticed blood coming from her genital area. I called multiple ER vets as none near me treat guinea pigs or were even open. We drove an hour and a half to the nearest vet, with all three of our girls, and...

Hi guys! I’m from Canada. My piggy, Kk, he is three years old. I wonder if my vet advises kk to do the CT scan, but it is too expensive, $1500-2000. My boy did an X-ray and Cytology. One is the X-ray vet said he got cancer in his right leg. Second one vet who done cytology with KK said she...

I took one of my guinea pigs (Momo) to the vet today after he started acting weird. He wasnt eating and was sleeping too much so i got really worried. At the vet the doctor told me he bas a lump in his abdomen near his kidney. They dont know if its attached to his kidney or not or if its...

This is my female guinea pig (4 yrs old) who is behaving healthy and seems fine but I noticed what looks like a mammary gland tumor. I live in India in a city where hardly any vet deals with Guinea pigs. I am planning to travel about 400 miles just to get a surgery. I'd like to know a few...

Hi everyone, Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts here. One of my guinea pigs developed a HUGE lump on his throat 11 days ago. He's an alpaca so I groom him every day so I know that it wasn't there one day, and came up overnight. I know this for sure/there was nothing to feel one day...

Hi all. I have an elderly piggie (just gone 7) who has been diagnosed with a mammary tumour, which opened up about a month ago. I know this will ultimately finish her off, however at the moment she's doing really well, and this doesn't seem to be bothering her at all. She is on daily...

Hello, I'm posting this thread on behalf of my customer who has 2 guinea pigs who isn't sure what to do next and neither am I. I've got 10 guinea pigs of my own and used this forum in the past. One of the guinea pig foot has been swollen for some time now (a month or two). The owner took him...

My guinea pig Charlie has been fine ever since that tooth problem, but as I was petting him, i felt a small lump on his right shoulder in his flab area.Does anyone know if this is an early stage of cancer? I feel like I’m overreacting a bit, but it’s not on the left side of his body either.I...

My 6 month male baby guinea pig named Loco recently formed this hard, puss-like blotch under his bottom lip. I thought I was food at first so I wiped with with a warm face clothes but it would rip his fur off because of how stuck it is. What is this and how can I help him? He lives with another...

Hi all, This is going to be a long one, but I'll try to keep it as short as possible. A few months ago, our guinea pig had a suspected abscess on her bum. Since it was too big to be drained, the vet decided to perform surgery. Keeping in mind that our vet works specifically with exotics, we...

Hi all, My guinea pig had surgery about 4 weeks ago on a tumour that the vet thought was an abscess. Once they opened up the lump on her rear, they obviously found out that it was a tumour, and so they simply closed it right back up again. We noticed that she was messing about with her scar for...

Hello! This is my first time posting here, I really need an opinion on what to do. I have a 4 1/2-5 year old guinea pig named Jasper. I've had her for about four years now with no health concerns or scares. I handle her pretty frequently, and within a few days she developed a lump on her right...

My guinea pig has unfortunately developed some sort of tumour on her bum that is steadily increasing in size :( The vet estimates that she has approximately one more month to live. She then proceeded to tell me that the tumour does not really seem to be bothering her at all - in other words, it...

Hi All, So I've been a bit quiet lately, feeling stressed about the boys' health. Binky with his dodgy lungs and Errol with his moods. Initially I thought Errol's moods were to do with hormones. It was strange because he was rumble strutting all the time and taking swipes at Binky. It was so...

Hi all, I'm new to this forum. I have 2 boars who we adopted a little over a year ago and are now 2 years old. I noticed Munchkin, the more dominant boar, had slightly gungy eyes so for a week I was wiping them with cooled boiled water. They didn't seem infected but didn't improve and he didn't...

I have a 4 years old guinea pig (Kosson, born in July to August 2013). In the mid-October 2017, I noticed that the colour of her pee was rather pink, and also she was crying a little when she urinated + lost her appetite a little. I took her to the nearby vet, who is not specialised to exotic...