My parents think I’m overreacting, and they aren’t allowing me to take her to the vet. I’ve been crying in fear because I do not want to lose her. It has been 5 hours since she last pooped but shes peeing quite a bit. I don’t know what to do, I’m so scared.
I’m not sure how she landed, as I was asleep and was woken up by my dad telling me the story and to keep an eye on her. I recently bought her a new hidey but she doesn’t even use it, maybe she just doesn’t know how to get in it. She just sits in corners and does nothing.
I have been BEGGING them to take her to the vet. My brothers have a 3 tier bunk bed, so it was around 10 feet. My brother, on the top bunk, tried handing my guinea pig to my other brother, on the ground, and somehow she fell. Reference image down below. She fell most likely 2 bunks down, but I’m not totally sure.
I have a tunnel, I just took it out to show the cage because the tunnel takes up a bit of space, and I think the crunchy noise it makes scares her.
Unfortunately, there aren’t any rescue building with guinea pigs in my state that I know of. Thank you for all your help, my fear has definitely been soothed and I’m much calmer now. Its almost 2am here and I’ve been awake this whole time worrying about her. I will keep you posted as much as I can, thank you.
That’s better, they love hay everywhere
Agreed! They are usually very calm with her. My brother just wanted to lay with her in his bed. I will be restricting her to the downstairs ONLY unless it is me, my dad, or my mom who takes her upstairs. Nobody else.
Hi. My guinea pig was dropped from about 10 feet due to the mishandling of my brothers. She isn’t showing too many signs of injury, but is rather, not pooping, eating hay, or drinking water. I’ve been able to feed her lettuce but thats it. And lately, she’s been very aggressive towards me and will bite me and make very loud squeals if I pet her. Please help, I really don’t want to lose my piggy.
Shes getting seen by a vet today
She isn’t on a veg only diet, she eats hay and pellets. She didn’t nibble on the lettuce, she ate quite a bit. I have been syringe feeding her water, but sadly we don’t have a great syringe, and the syringe is huge. But, she is doing much better. I will keep everyone updated on how the vet visit goes.
Where can I buy some? I don’t know where they sell any scales near me, but maybe I’m not lookingAll the best!
You monitor the actual food intake by weighing daily on your kitchen scales instead of the normal health monitoring life-long weekly weigh in. The poo picture you have posted clearly reflects very little and virtually no hay/food intake for at least a day, looking at their size and consistency. Hence my comments.
Unfortunately, you cannot judge the hay intake by eye and the poo output runs a day or two late because it takes around a day for food to pass through the digestive (plus guinea pigs eat poos for a second run for full fibre breakdown, which your piggy may currently not do, seeing those poos). That is where the kitchen scales come in because they give you instant correct feedback on how much and which level of care you need to give. weighing first thing in the morning gives the best comparison from day to day as the weight swings around 30g over the course of 24 hours. You can find all the necessary information in our new syringe feeding and medicating guide.
