MevrouwMuis
New Born Pup
Hi all!
Since 2.5 week I'm the owner of a sweet 1 year old guinea pig. I adopted her together with a neutered boar from the rescue Unfortunately, within one week she got sick. She had and still has an eye infection. The boar got sick later and got a lung infection, which he sadly passed away from this week. I brought my piggies to the vet three times and she thinks it was a bacterial infection they caught from the rescue center. Her eyes are luckily getting better each day: the crusts have fallen of, but it's still red and needs treatment with antibiotic cream for some weeks. Since her friend passed away I noticed her behaviour changed. She seems so much more stressed (to the point of not being able to keep her on my lap) and she is squeeking a lot. She had a stressful time being adopted from the rescue center, getting sick and losing her friend, so it makes sense that she acts stressed and a little depressed. She would always sit beside him and talked to him a lot! So not having a friend really makes here more sad I think
I was wondering if I could get another piggy friend for her but put him/her in a different cage? So they can chat and get used to each others noises and my guinea pig feels less lonely and I can physically introduce them when her eye is fully healed. Or would it be to risky for the other piggy since her eyes are still not healed fully now? I'm going to the vet next week so ofcourse I will ask her advise about this as well, but I would just like to know if someone has experience with this and what they did in a situation like this. Just hurts to see her sad
Since 2.5 week I'm the owner of a sweet 1 year old guinea pig. I adopted her together with a neutered boar from the rescue Unfortunately, within one week she got sick. She had and still has an eye infection. The boar got sick later and got a lung infection, which he sadly passed away from this week. I brought my piggies to the vet three times and she thinks it was a bacterial infection they caught from the rescue center. Her eyes are luckily getting better each day: the crusts have fallen of, but it's still red and needs treatment with antibiotic cream for some weeks. Since her friend passed away I noticed her behaviour changed. She seems so much more stressed (to the point of not being able to keep her on my lap) and she is squeeking a lot. She had a stressful time being adopted from the rescue center, getting sick and losing her friend, so it makes sense that she acts stressed and a little depressed. She would always sit beside him and talked to him a lot! So not having a friend really makes here more sad I think
I was wondering if I could get another piggy friend for her but put him/her in a different cage? So they can chat and get used to each others noises and my guinea pig feels less lonely and I can physically introduce them when her eye is fully healed. Or would it be to risky for the other piggy since her eyes are still not healed fully now? I'm going to the vet next week so ofcourse I will ask her advise about this as well, but I would just like to know if someone has experience with this and what they did in a situation like this. Just hurts to see her sad 
