Niki
Senior Guinea Pig
I've just been weighing everyone & was "inspecting." Fitz seemed to have what looked like a tiny patch of "matted hair" under his tum, it looked a bit like a graze on his skin, but it was a hardened mass, approx 1.5cm long, i squeezed it & out came pus & blood & has left a 3mm hole. I am mortified that i didn't discover this earlier, i just didn't see it yesterday but it must've been there.
I've given him 0.3ml of Baytril & have flushed the hole with salt water, nothing else has come out of it but the surrounding skin is rather red, he's not off his food & is behaving no differently to normal (I wouldn't 've known there was anything wrong with him).
He also had a "plug" in his penis, the past few days Arthur has been mounting him quite a lot so am assuming this is why the plug was there but could this abscess, i'm assuming that's what it is, have been caused by a bite or is it just "one of those things?"
I've separated them; Fitz is indoors on vet bed & i'll be taking him to the vets Monday, is there anything i should be doing for him or to the "wound?"
If it wasn't caused by a bite will it be ok for Arthur to join him indoors or should they stay separated? i don't want him to fret for Arthur if they don't need to be apart, i don't know what to do for the best :-\
These are the best pics i could get of it
I've given him 0.3ml of Baytril & have flushed the hole with salt water, nothing else has come out of it but the surrounding skin is rather red, he's not off his food & is behaving no differently to normal (I wouldn't 've known there was anything wrong with him).
He also had a "plug" in his penis, the past few days Arthur has been mounting him quite a lot so am assuming this is why the plug was there but could this abscess, i'm assuming that's what it is, have been caused by a bite or is it just "one of those things?"
I've separated them; Fitz is indoors on vet bed & i'll be taking him to the vets Monday, is there anything i should be doing for him or to the "wound?"
If it wasn't caused by a bite will it be ok for Arthur to join him indoors or should they stay separated? i don't want him to fret for Arthur if they don't need to be apart, i don't know what to do for the best :-\
These are the best pics i could get of it