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Angeldust
My guinea pig Spice lost quite a considerable amount of weight recently, but i also have another guinea pig, Star, and she has ballooned up in size, so we thought Spices weight had went down due to Star eating the majority of the food we put out for them. We started bringing Spice indoors at feeding times and feeding her seperately to try and help her gain weight. Unfortunately, recently she stopped eating nearly altogether and so took her to the vets. We were informed that she may have kidney disease as she squeaked when the vet felt around this area of her body, and that it would result eventually in renal failure. We were given the option of euthanasia at that point in time, or giving her a chance to see if she perked up. We decided to give her a chance as the vet said she wasnt in too much pain and still seemed to have a lot of spunk about her. We were given recovery liquid food to try and fatten her up.
At the moment, we are giving her this recovery food, but also some baby food, and her usual dry food, and fruit and vegetables to try and fatten her up although she does seem somewhat more picky and doesnt eat as much. I also got her some carrot juice supplement to be added to her water from the pet shop as this contains Vitamin C alone which i read up that guinea pigs need. Before hand, we were adding Vita Sol to the water, but i read somewhere that guinea pigs would need to overdose on the other vitamins in Vita Sol before they got the correct amount of vitamin C they need daily.
As you can guess, I'm rather upset about this turn of events, no-one likes to see theyre piggie poorly and I'm wondering if anybody out there knows of anything that can help whatsoever? As in, are there certain vegetables or other foods which may help fatten her up or which will be better for her?
I need to take her back to the vets in a weeks time which will be thursday to see how shes doing, and I'm just hoping that it will be much better to be honest :'(
At the moment, we are giving her this recovery food, but also some baby food, and her usual dry food, and fruit and vegetables to try and fatten her up although she does seem somewhat more picky and doesnt eat as much. I also got her some carrot juice supplement to be added to her water from the pet shop as this contains Vitamin C alone which i read up that guinea pigs need. Before hand, we were adding Vita Sol to the water, but i read somewhere that guinea pigs would need to overdose on the other vitamins in Vita Sol before they got the correct amount of vitamin C they need daily.
As you can guess, I'm rather upset about this turn of events, no-one likes to see theyre piggie poorly and I'm wondering if anybody out there knows of anything that can help whatsoever? As in, are there certain vegetables or other foods which may help fatten her up or which will be better for her?
I need to take her back to the vets in a weeks time which will be thursday to see how shes doing, and I'm just hoping that it will be much better to be honest :'(