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I am at a loss. My remaining piggie, Cinnamon, has had an issue with bloat basically for about a year that I can remember. I don’t give her any form of lettuce at all, she gets the mini sweet peppers, pretty much daily, an occasional carrot, the other day I tried a fresh green bean with her, and of course tons of hay and some pellets that she never eats all of. She seems to be bloated again. Was it the green bean? One of the 2 carrots she got this week? Are the mini peppers not the same as the large ones and are those causing bloating? She took a few nibbles of a pepper this morning and wouldn’t touch the rest when normally she would eat most, maybe, I’m not sure that she likes the yellow ones. She did try to eat most of a carrot until I took it away because I am taking her off veggies until this is under control. Her poops are dry and seed/tear shaped. Last week, earlier this week, they were fine it seemed and she was eating hay and drinking her water and now she just wants to lay in her hidey or in the corner if I take it out of her cage. I have given her gripe water, Metacam and rubbed her belly which I don’t think she loved. I can’t get her into the vet until Jan 15. I also will give her some critical care in a bit as she only ate a little bit of hay this morning. Would these foods alone be enough to cause bloat? Anyone else have a bloat prone pig like this? I just put my other one to sleep barely a month ago, I cannot deal with more health issues yall.
 
If her poos are tear shaped then she needs to be completely off veg until 48 hours after they are back to normal. Is there no other vet that will see her? I know it’s harder to find a vet in the Us who is experienced in treating guinea pigs. Is there at least one you can see in an emergency?

I’ll tag @VickiA @PigglePuggle @Piggies&buns
 
I’ll check it out but usually no. Everything books out 1-2 weeks. And exotic vets at and ER Vet in the US are a joke. They’re practically non existent or just happen to be “off” when you need to be seen. I did manage to get a small amount of critical care in her and no veggies for awhile I agree. She had this same reaction to cilantro About a month ago to. I don’t know what it is she’s just so prone to bloat with some things I guess
 
Sorry to hear about your piggy. I’m sorry I cannot help further. I wanted to say I am on the east coast near philly and exotic vets are not the best here in the states. My exotic vet gave a lot of advice that contradicts with our forum.

I am in the process of vet shopping. Not feeling too comfortable with my current vet.
 
dhill_cb7 said:
Sorry to hear about your piggy. I’m sorry I cannot help further. I wanted to say I am on the east coast near philly and exotic vets are not the best here in the states. My exotic vet gave a lot of advice that contradicts with our forum.

I am in the process of vet shopping. Not feeling too comfortable with my current vet.
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I feel that. It’s ridiculous. I thought I found one I liked before my last piggie died but that vet said she didn’t seem to need antibiotics when I told him she was making a weird noise and has some stuff in her eyes and then a week later she was gone. Their normal vet I take them to isn’t the greatest either I feel like. I just don’t understand why its so hard to come by a decent vet out here.
 
Stopping veg for a few days, and syringe feeding recovery food and a probiotic little and often, are good places to start- but bloat is very painful and can be fatal, really an emergency vet who can prescribe appropriate medication is the best option here and if things get any worse it may be the only option I'm afraid.
Hope you can find a vet and your piggy is ok x
 
She must be eating when I’m not watching or I’m giving her enough CC and the gripe water and massage is doing “ok”, as she poo’d on me this morning while we were doing her treatment. Some are still tear drop shaped but are not dry, and she has not lost any weight. I’m giving her 10 ml of CC at a time. What is weird to me though is yesterday when I’d take her hidey out she’d just stand in a corner or when I’d put her back in her cage after doing her treatments she’d kind of sniff the air around her cage like she’d never been in there before then go into her corner til I put her house back in. It made me wonder if she’d gone blind or something. But I would put her house in random places and she could find it to go into it so I’m not sure that’s it. Plus when I have her out of her cage she stands right outside of it and runs up to it waiting for me to put her back in. Idk maybe I’m overthinking and she’s just irritated with me taking her out and back in constantly because now I keep wondering if she’s got a neurological issue going on and she can’t remember where she’s at 🤦🏼‍♀️ Does that happen in pigs?
 
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