Neesy95
Forum Donator 2022/23
Good evening!
Today Zorro (the gorgeous piggy in my profile pic) has decided that all the veg they usually eat on a day to day basis, he just doesn't like anymore. (romaine, cucumber, coriander and they get some parsley a couple of times a week)
I got scared this morning when I realised I put breakfast in for all of my piggles (they wheeked and wheeked, to wake me up!) and everyone was happily munching except for my daddy/husband pig, Zorro. He just looked from a distance and turned his head, I managed to get him to take some cucumber and he nibbled a bit of romaine, but I thought let's try parsley (his absolute favourite!) he got mad and ran off.
I thought omg he must not be feeling well! So I pick him up, and check him out. His weight is fine, his poos are healthy looking and he currently has conjunctivitis in one eye (he has drops for this and it seems to be improving), everything seemed fine, except for some matting near his bum. So I thought maybe he's uncomfortable? So I cut all the matting off (not too much, he's very long haired and it happens sometimes in the space of a week). All matting removed, I have been attacked and he's chattered his teeth at me to tell me he is not very impressed with me hanging around his bum area! I then put him back, and still he's not really interested. He went to eat a few nuggets and devoured hay like a normal enthusiastic guinea pig, but did not want any veg! This is normally the piggy, who is there first, waiting, eating and pushing his way past his 3 ladies to make sure he gets all the good stuff!
He was being very still in the corner essentially sulking, he's angry at the wooden arch (the ones made out of sticks) and he's chewing it and getting angry at us. And I was worried he wasn't really being himself, so I move the arch out completely and he's back to walking around and discovering. Its cage clean day anyways, so I deep cleaned and he's seems more like himself and he's eating loads of hay and had a few of his evening nuggets!
So now I'm like hmm, how weird, maybe he's just bored. So I got some cavalo nero and some tenderstem broccoli (I know both of these are cruciferous and shouldn't be given too much) but I know he's liked these foods in the past, I stopped giving these veg because I cut out all the really cruciferous veg completely as Zorros tummy can get a bit funny sometimes.
Anyways, just to see if it was he is just bored I thought let me see if I can tempt him. He lost his mind when he got the (pretty small piece) of tenderstem broccoli, ran off into the corner and hid it away from his girlie's and munched it up. He then walked around the enclosure and went to sniff the other daily veggies and just looked in disgust. Completely not interested.
And then i gave them a snack for the evening, and thought let's see if he takes a piece of romaine, he took it from me and then stood on it and turned away, as if to show me exactly what he thinks of this food! So I then cut a small piece of cavalo nero for him, and again he was so happy - ran far into the corner with it to hide from the girlie's and finished it completely.
When I was cutting his bum hair this morning, he did sneeze (i was worried he might be getting sick) and he was on my leg and I saw a tiny bit of a white speck after he sneezed that landed on my leg (it was white and tiny, a bit like slight spray that can come out when a human sneezes) but he hasn't sneezed since and doesn't seem sick? He's just not being entirely himself?
Have I just got a naughty piggy who has decided he just doesn't want the food he's been having daily for basically all his life? Is he just bored?
Or is something wrong and I'm missing an obvious sign?
He went to the vets not so long ago and they said he was perfectly healthy except for conjunctivitis in his eye. His other eye has now got conjunctivitis, and we think it's the hay. So we are changing the hay. This one seems pretty dusty and the vet said his eye had lots of hay dust in it, but they love this hay more than any other hay I have ever gotten them, but I think they love it too much, they jump right into it and bury themselves in it, which is probably how the dust gets in their eyes in the first place!
Is Zorro just being picky? And how do I combat this?
Today Zorro (the gorgeous piggy in my profile pic) has decided that all the veg they usually eat on a day to day basis, he just doesn't like anymore. (romaine, cucumber, coriander and they get some parsley a couple of times a week)
I got scared this morning when I realised I put breakfast in for all of my piggles (they wheeked and wheeked, to wake me up!) and everyone was happily munching except for my daddy/husband pig, Zorro. He just looked from a distance and turned his head, I managed to get him to take some cucumber and he nibbled a bit of romaine, but I thought let's try parsley (his absolute favourite!) he got mad and ran off.
I thought omg he must not be feeling well! So I pick him up, and check him out. His weight is fine, his poos are healthy looking and he currently has conjunctivitis in one eye (he has drops for this and it seems to be improving), everything seemed fine, except for some matting near his bum. So I thought maybe he's uncomfortable? So I cut all the matting off (not too much, he's very long haired and it happens sometimes in the space of a week). All matting removed, I have been attacked and he's chattered his teeth at me to tell me he is not very impressed with me hanging around his bum area! I then put him back, and still he's not really interested. He went to eat a few nuggets and devoured hay like a normal enthusiastic guinea pig, but did not want any veg! This is normally the piggy, who is there first, waiting, eating and pushing his way past his 3 ladies to make sure he gets all the good stuff!
He was being very still in the corner essentially sulking, he's angry at the wooden arch (the ones made out of sticks) and he's chewing it and getting angry at us. And I was worried he wasn't really being himself, so I move the arch out completely and he's back to walking around and discovering. Its cage clean day anyways, so I deep cleaned and he's seems more like himself and he's eating loads of hay and had a few of his evening nuggets!
So now I'm like hmm, how weird, maybe he's just bored. So I got some cavalo nero and some tenderstem broccoli (I know both of these are cruciferous and shouldn't be given too much) but I know he's liked these foods in the past, I stopped giving these veg because I cut out all the really cruciferous veg completely as Zorros tummy can get a bit funny sometimes.
Anyways, just to see if it was he is just bored I thought let me see if I can tempt him. He lost his mind when he got the (pretty small piece) of tenderstem broccoli, ran off into the corner and hid it away from his girlie's and munched it up. He then walked around the enclosure and went to sniff the other daily veggies and just looked in disgust. Completely not interested.
And then i gave them a snack for the evening, and thought let's see if he takes a piece of romaine, he took it from me and then stood on it and turned away, as if to show me exactly what he thinks of this food! So I then cut a small piece of cavalo nero for him, and again he was so happy - ran far into the corner with it to hide from the girlie's and finished it completely.
When I was cutting his bum hair this morning, he did sneeze (i was worried he might be getting sick) and he was on my leg and I saw a tiny bit of a white speck after he sneezed that landed on my leg (it was white and tiny, a bit like slight spray that can come out when a human sneezes) but he hasn't sneezed since and doesn't seem sick? He's just not being entirely himself?
Have I just got a naughty piggy who has decided he just doesn't want the food he's been having daily for basically all his life? Is he just bored?
Or is something wrong and I'm missing an obvious sign?
He went to the vets not so long ago and they said he was perfectly healthy except for conjunctivitis in his eye. His other eye has now got conjunctivitis, and we think it's the hay. So we are changing the hay. This one seems pretty dusty and the vet said his eye had lots of hay dust in it, but they love this hay more than any other hay I have ever gotten them, but I think they love it too much, they jump right into it and bury themselves in it, which is probably how the dust gets in their eyes in the first place!
Is Zorro just being picky? And how do I combat this?