GregoryAlonzo
New Born Pup
Hello!
I'm posting this in desperation. My 1 year-old guinea pig Gregory hasn't eaten properly in 2 months. We have gone to the vet basically every week for 2 months and he's had 2 surgeries to fix his teeth.
His back teeth keep growing too long, to the point that he has mouth ulcers before his surgeries.
Now i'm at a point, where my vet is suggesting euthanasia, since he isn't getting any better. In fact, he is getting worse. He should be weighing about 950g, but currently his weight has dropped to 500g. He's just skin and bones and i'm terrified of having to put him down. So i made an agreement with my vet, that i would be willing to let him go if his weight drops to 450g. I don't want him to suffer![sad :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)
I feed him every day. Fortunately, he seems to have an appetite and whenever he wheeks for food, i feed him. I don't know exactly how much he eats each time, but i don't stop feeding him until he gets grumpy. He also gets pain medications twice a day - 2x 0.2ml of meloxicam. My vet said that it's the maximum dose, and i don't dare to give him more in case he does recover and bigger does would screw with his health any other way.
My question is, what can i do? I don't want to lose my darling lil boy and i don't think i could take a new piggie for my other guinea pig. I'm willing to try literally anything to get him even a little better.
I'm posting this in desperation. My 1 year-old guinea pig Gregory hasn't eaten properly in 2 months. We have gone to the vet basically every week for 2 months and he's had 2 surgeries to fix his teeth.
His back teeth keep growing too long, to the point that he has mouth ulcers before his surgeries.
Now i'm at a point, where my vet is suggesting euthanasia, since he isn't getting any better. In fact, he is getting worse. He should be weighing about 950g, but currently his weight has dropped to 500g. He's just skin and bones and i'm terrified of having to put him down. So i made an agreement with my vet, that i would be willing to let him go if his weight drops to 450g. I don't want him to suffer
![sad :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)
I feed him every day. Fortunately, he seems to have an appetite and whenever he wheeks for food, i feed him. I don't know exactly how much he eats each time, but i don't stop feeding him until he gets grumpy. He also gets pain medications twice a day - 2x 0.2ml of meloxicam. My vet said that it's the maximum dose, and i don't dare to give him more in case he does recover and bigger does would screw with his health any other way.
My question is, what can i do? I don't want to lose my darling lil boy and i don't think i could take a new piggie for my other guinea pig. I'm willing to try literally anything to get him even a little better.