iheartpiggys
New Born Pup
Hello, I am very new here, I just joined today. I believe my guinea pig is dying and I didn’t know where else I could go for help/advice. I’ll start off by explaining everything that has happened so far.
Last night, when I had gone to feed my guinea pigs, I noticed that my oldest guinea pig, Cookie, was sitting with his head in the corner of the cage unmoving. I assumed he was just resting and went about business as normal. This morning, when I went to feed my guinea pigs again, I found Cookie in the same position, his food from last night untouched. I put my hand in the cage to pet him and he moved only a little bit. That is when I grew concerned.
As I mentioned before, Cookie is my oldest guinea pig, at about 6 1/2 years old. I knew that he was getting to the end of the line because over the past couple weeks, he has started becoming thinner and not eating as much, nor moving around his cage as much. Anyway, back to the matter at hand. I was able to move Cookie out of his cage very gently using a towel, and I have been sitting with him since. That was at about 1pm and it is now after 7pm.
I have done everything that I can think of, I’ve looked through many different articles online about what to do for a dying guinea pig. I’ve been giving him water from a spoon every so often, because I don’t have a syringe. I tried feeding him little bits of juice from an apple and some from an orange, because he didn’t take the mushed up pellets I offered. He isn’t moving much and seems very weak.
Currently, I am sitting with him laying on a towel in my lap. Every so often, his body will twitch and he’ll make a halfhearted squeaking sound, sometimes it will be more high pitched than usual. His breathing is very shallow, and has been for the last 6 hours that I have been with him. I have tried not to move him because he starts twitching and squeaking more drastically when I do so.
As of now, he is still laying on a towel in my lap, limp. He is laying slightly to the side. It seems like he is still conscious, because he responds a little bit when I pet him. As I mentioned before, it has been 6 hours since I took him out of his cage to be with him. It has been so long that I am now unsure if he is just dying from old age like I thought, or if he has some sort of illness.
I guess what I’m really trying to ask for is guidance, and possibly an answer as to why Cookie has been like this so long & could there be something else wrong with him because of that. I don’t know if there’s anything else I can do for him or where to go from here so this is my last shot. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Last night, when I had gone to feed my guinea pigs, I noticed that my oldest guinea pig, Cookie, was sitting with his head in the corner of the cage unmoving. I assumed he was just resting and went about business as normal. This morning, when I went to feed my guinea pigs again, I found Cookie in the same position, his food from last night untouched. I put my hand in the cage to pet him and he moved only a little bit. That is when I grew concerned.
As I mentioned before, Cookie is my oldest guinea pig, at about 6 1/2 years old. I knew that he was getting to the end of the line because over the past couple weeks, he has started becoming thinner and not eating as much, nor moving around his cage as much. Anyway, back to the matter at hand. I was able to move Cookie out of his cage very gently using a towel, and I have been sitting with him since. That was at about 1pm and it is now after 7pm.
I have done everything that I can think of, I’ve looked through many different articles online about what to do for a dying guinea pig. I’ve been giving him water from a spoon every so often, because I don’t have a syringe. I tried feeding him little bits of juice from an apple and some from an orange, because he didn’t take the mushed up pellets I offered. He isn’t moving much and seems very weak.
Currently, I am sitting with him laying on a towel in my lap. Every so often, his body will twitch and he’ll make a halfhearted squeaking sound, sometimes it will be more high pitched than usual. His breathing is very shallow, and has been for the last 6 hours that I have been with him. I have tried not to move him because he starts twitching and squeaking more drastically when I do so.
As of now, he is still laying on a towel in my lap, limp. He is laying slightly to the side. It seems like he is still conscious, because he responds a little bit when I pet him. As I mentioned before, it has been 6 hours since I took him out of his cage to be with him. It has been so long that I am now unsure if he is just dying from old age like I thought, or if he has some sort of illness.
I guess what I’m really trying to ask for is guidance, and possibly an answer as to why Cookie has been like this so long & could there be something else wrong with him because of that. I don’t know if there’s anything else I can do for him or where to go from here so this is my last shot. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
