lauryn1289
Junior Guinea Pig
I’m so so so sorry for yet another post and this being so long 
I just didn’t want to keep spamming the post I made yesterday because it’s possibly not relevant anymore. You all are a lot more experienced than me and knowing what to say to my vet is invaluable.
So long story short yesterday my 6 1/2 year old boar Kip was suddenly disinterested in food, completely out of the blue seemingly. No poops or anything but I’ve been syringe feeding every 2 hours and we have lots of albeit mushy poops now since last night. His weight is fine, he was 684 last week, 660 the other day and he’s 664g now. He’s back to being interested in food, he’s picking at and occasionally taking big bites of carrot, pepper, cucumber etc. With mushy poops I’d normally obviously cut out veggies and fruits but right now I’m just keeping him interested.
Now the thing is, he’s been picking at nuggets but he seems to be dropping them? I have heard him eat a few however, I could hear him crunching. I have also seen him rummage at hay but whether he’s eaten it I don’t know but he has been interested. He’s moody and keeping to himself but he is spritely and very alert and does peak out when he thinks I have something.
To add extra context, he has a very large lump on his neck for a long time that’s came and gone and came back again. He’s seen a vet over it multiple times and had it drained, it’s full of blood and they reckon a hematoma just might never go away sometimes fully and keep refilling. It doesn’t seem to bother him much at all, but I guess that could change.
Right now I’m concerned about dental problems, even though yesterday until like 3pm he had 0 issues eating, he’s usually constantly eating hay and his nuggets. He has a vet appointment tomorrow at 5 but unfortunately not an exotic vet, closest is 2 and a half hours, and I’m concerned they won’t be able to tell if he does have dental issues especially with his molars? Is there absolutely any way to check myself or to direct them to check? I’m assuming they have none of the tools to open his mouth. I thought surely a carrot and even a couple of nuggets isn’t the easiest thing to eat if it is his teeth?
On the other hand I’m wondering if any sudden change to his neck lump could be causing this whether it’s infection or change of location impacting his jaw. He’s literally never ever had teeth issues and honestly this came so out of the blue. Could there be absolutely ANY other explanation for this?
I’ll insert a photo of the neck lump, this was taken a while ago but its changed location a bit since then and is more under his chin and not as bulbous but still very there. It’s firm mostly but soft-ish when you press inwards and has always been filled with blood when drained. He was on Baytril in December for dizziness and the lump actually fully went down for some reason, came back again though. Didn’t go away any other time he was on antibiotics so thought it was odd! It’s never caused him any issues or pain before as far as I remember, he’s usually a really happy little man. So sorry again for another post
I just didn’t want to keep spamming the post I made yesterday because it’s possibly not relevant anymore. You all are a lot more experienced than me and knowing what to say to my vet is invaluable.So long story short yesterday my 6 1/2 year old boar Kip was suddenly disinterested in food, completely out of the blue seemingly. No poops or anything but I’ve been syringe feeding every 2 hours and we have lots of albeit mushy poops now since last night. His weight is fine, he was 684 last week, 660 the other day and he’s 664g now. He’s back to being interested in food, he’s picking at and occasionally taking big bites of carrot, pepper, cucumber etc. With mushy poops I’d normally obviously cut out veggies and fruits but right now I’m just keeping him interested.
Now the thing is, he’s been picking at nuggets but he seems to be dropping them? I have heard him eat a few however, I could hear him crunching. I have also seen him rummage at hay but whether he’s eaten it I don’t know but he has been interested. He’s moody and keeping to himself but he is spritely and very alert and does peak out when he thinks I have something.
To add extra context, he has a very large lump on his neck for a long time that’s came and gone and came back again. He’s seen a vet over it multiple times and had it drained, it’s full of blood and they reckon a hematoma just might never go away sometimes fully and keep refilling. It doesn’t seem to bother him much at all, but I guess that could change.
Right now I’m concerned about dental problems, even though yesterday until like 3pm he had 0 issues eating, he’s usually constantly eating hay and his nuggets. He has a vet appointment tomorrow at 5 but unfortunately not an exotic vet, closest is 2 and a half hours, and I’m concerned they won’t be able to tell if he does have dental issues especially with his molars? Is there absolutely any way to check myself or to direct them to check? I’m assuming they have none of the tools to open his mouth. I thought surely a carrot and even a couple of nuggets isn’t the easiest thing to eat if it is his teeth?
On the other hand I’m wondering if any sudden change to his neck lump could be causing this whether it’s infection or change of location impacting his jaw. He’s literally never ever had teeth issues and honestly this came so out of the blue. Could there be absolutely ANY other explanation for this?
I’ll insert a photo of the neck lump, this was taken a while ago but its changed location a bit since then and is more under his chin and not as bulbous but still very there. It’s firm mostly but soft-ish when you press inwards and has always been filled with blood when drained. He was on Baytril in December for dizziness and the lump actually fully went down for some reason, came back again though. Didn’t go away any other time he was on antibiotics so thought it was odd! It’s never caused him any issues or pain before as far as I remember, he’s usually a really happy little man. So sorry again for another post
xx
