Feeding the guinea pigs at TEAS

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Betsy said:
You shouldn't have favourites you know! Although most of us do have a special piggy mine is not at all The Ever Beautiful Betsy!
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I couldn't pick which one I like more, both make me laugh 😂
 
PigglePuggle said:
Do you never have bloaty piggies @furryfriends (TEAS) who cant handle all that veg? I love seeing your fancy veg bowls but we always have to careful with bloaty Puggle, its hard as she wont eat away from her friends and she loves a good scatterfeed, the vet thinks from her xrays she maybe has a slightly malformed and tight valve at the bottom of her stomach and/or a narrow small intestine and too many leaves has almost killed her before... more than once! She can be fine for ages then one spinach leaf too many... she's never bloated with cucumber or carrot or peppers, its always been straight after one (or several) leaves too many after a scatterfeed... she'd been fine for over a year then last saturday she was very greedy at the spinach and kale playpen scatterfeed and an hour later we had the tummy ache noise again :(
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Can you explain what the tummy ache noise is please? My Fifi sometimes has a gurgling sound after spring greens, so that's now off the menu completely - but I'm wondering if it means she's in pain or something completely different.
 
Dot has this aswell, not all the time but a fair bit. I have tried everything to settle it. It's been going on since around June 2018
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Dot has this aswell, not all the time but a fair bit. I have tried everything to settle it. It's been going on since around June 2018
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Is it a gurgling sound? Like a rumbling tummy sort of thing?
 
Janey said:
Is it a gurgling sound? Like a rumbling tummy sort of thing?
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Yea exactly that.. She has been like it for ages, strains to poo and does little pointy poos mostly and then sometimes normal, she's healthy other than this.

She's had scans, xrays, a cervical mass removed with a full spay op. She can't have any more parts taken away from her, only an eye or 2 lol

I care for her loads, she comes before myself, but I no longer worry, I just enjoy making everyday as happy as poss
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Yea exactly that.. She has been like it for ages, strains to poo and does little pointy poos mostly and then sometimes normal, she's healthy other than this.

She's had scans, xrays, a cervical mass removed with a full spay op. She can't have any more parts taken away from her, only an eye or 2 lol

I care for her loads, she comes before myself, but I no longer worry, I just enjoy making everyday as happy as poss
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Thanks! I’ve been worried but couldn’t find information about this and as it doesn’t happen all the time, difficult to diagnose. Maybe it’s just the spring greens that were disagreeing with her then.
 
Janey said:
Thanks! I’ve been worried but couldn’t find information about this and as it doesn’t happen all the time, difficult to diagnose. Maybe it’s just the spring greens that were disagreeing with her then.
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Try eliminating foods, I tried all that though and still not answers
 
We've got our first UTI! Buttercup, who was surrendered to TEAS due to dental disease, a few weeks ago, is currently being treated for a urinary tract infection. We are hoping it isn't a stone, but we are currently monitoring her and she's been prescribed Marbocyl and Metacam. She will be x-rayed if no improvement. We are hoping it's a cystitis caused by stress, due to settling into a new home, with new little friends, but whatever it is, we will make sure she gets the appropriate treatment.
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
We've got our first UTI! Buttercup, who was surrendered to TEAS due to dental disease, a few weeks ago, is currently being treated for a urinary tract infection. We are hoping it isn't a stone, but we are currently monitoring her and she's been prescribed Marbocyl and Metacam. She will be x-rayed if no improvement. We are hoping it's a cystitis caused by stress, due to settling into a new home, with new little friends, but whatever it is, we will make sure she gets the appropriate treatment.
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Healing wheeks for Buttercup, hopefully its just a mild infection or cystitis and will clear up with treatment and lots of TLC x
 
PigglePuggle said:
Healing wheeks for Buttercup, hopefully its just a mild infection or cystitis and will clear up with treatment and lots of TLC x
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It's such a shame, as teeth-wise, she's made amazing progress. When she arrived her mouth was full of blood, with so much soft tissue trauma, due to teeth imbedding in her cheeks. She's now only needing a monthly check up and eating completely for herself!
 
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Aah poor Buttercup, hope it all clears up and no more problems for the little lady after her teeth troubles x
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
We've got our first UTI! Buttercup, who was surrendered to TEAS due to dental disease, a few weeks ago, is currently being treated for a urinary tract infection. We are hoping it isn't a stone, but we are currently monitoring her and she's been prescribed Marbocyl and Metacam. She will be x-rayed if no improvement. We are hoping it's a cystitis caused by stress, due to settling into a new home, with new little friends, but whatever it is, we will make sure she gets the appropriate treatment.
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What made you notice the possible uti?
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
I'm just keeping her very clean and using Vaseline too!
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Its a right nightmare when they are constantly sitting down in urine, I've been through it with both old boars, one from cancer and he became incondinent ( can't spell it) and the other boy had 3 bladder stones all at once, but probably had an infection there too
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Its a right nightmare when they are constantly sitting down in urine, I've been through it with both old boars, one from cancer and he became incondinent ( can't spell it) and the other boy had 3 bladder stones all at once, but probably had an infection there too
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On a positive, she seems very much brighter in herself and was standing up at the bars, shouting for her dinner tonight, so definitely an improvement on yesterday!
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Definitly. Let the marbocyl fight it, might be even better tomorrow
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I really hope so! Because of her dental issues, she wasn't able to eat any grass, veg or hay for ages and lived on mushed up nuggets. I wonder if this is what has caused the problem. Since being here and seeing Simon, she can now eat completely normally! 🙂
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
I really hope so! Because of her dental issues, she wasn't able to eat any grass, veg or hay for ages and lived on mushed up nuggets. I wonder if this is what has caused the problem. She can now eat completely normally! 🙂
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So she hasn't been able to eat the teas way. But now she can. Can only help, it sounds like it could be why
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
So she hasn't been able to eat the teas way. But now she can. Can only help, it sounds like it could be why
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Nuggets are the biggest culprit for high calcium and that was all the poor little mite could manage! As soon as Simon filed her teeth she was eating properly!
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
Nuggets are the biggest culprit for high calcium and that was all the poor little mite could manage! As soon as Simon filed her teeth she was eating properly!
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Yea that's what puts me off syringe feeding them ( long term) but blumming critical care is so expensive being American branded, and then alot of guine apigs you say don't like it.
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Yea that's what puts me off syringe feeding them ( long term) but blumming critical care is so expensive being American branded, and then alot of guine apigs you say don't like it.
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You shouldn't syringe feed long term anyway! I strongly believe that if a piggy needs long-term supportive care, then it's time to say goodbye! It's all about having a life worth living!
 
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