Helllo everyone.
This is one of the hardest post I've ever written in a forum. I lost my piggy, Shy, just two weeks ago. It was completely sudden, I fed her the night salad and two hours later she was dead in her favourite corner. I have cried a lot, but I have been sick worried about my last guinea pig, Ray, who is now alone.
As she passed away like that, I perform a necropsy. I helped my vet as I am a vet nurse myself and we didn't find anything obvious, even we sent samples to the lab and everything was fine. We assumed she died by a congenital cause because she was rescued from a "puppy mill" with a lot of inbreeding. Also I did an exhaustive health check for Ray and I have repeated it two weeks later. He is completely fine, x-rays, echo, blood test, urine and poop tests... everything healthy and fine.
But he has lost 20 grams in those 17 days and I think I'm going to lose my mind.
It is true that here in Spain we are through the longest and toughest heat wave of the year, but I keep him always in a good room temperature and I feed him more fresh veggies than usual. It is true that I felt his grief the first days and I looked over him almost 24/7 the first week. He didn't stop eating, but he is eating less. He keeps his appetite intact because he devours his treats and veggies but he seems to forget or doesn't care about the hay or pellets. I noticed he was less active, but he has been always a lazy piggy. He has never stopped wheeking for food, popcorning when ever I clean the cage or cuddling with me. This last days he has began to (I think) eat a little bit more, but tbh, I freak out when I saw he had lost 20 gr in two weeks being healthy and behaving almost normally. Even my vet has said to me not to worry about that loss too much, because is the heat wave plus the mourning time, so it is kinda normal. I will repeat all the health check in one week if he continues losing weight.
I still don't know if I'm doing everything right or I'm forgetting something so please, tell me about your experiences and tricks in this situations.
Thank you so so much.
This is one of the hardest post I've ever written in a forum. I lost my piggy, Shy, just two weeks ago. It was completely sudden, I fed her the night salad and two hours later she was dead in her favourite corner. I have cried a lot, but I have been sick worried about my last guinea pig, Ray, who is now alone.
As she passed away like that, I perform a necropsy. I helped my vet as I am a vet nurse myself and we didn't find anything obvious, even we sent samples to the lab and everything was fine. We assumed she died by a congenital cause because she was rescued from a "puppy mill" with a lot of inbreeding. Also I did an exhaustive health check for Ray and I have repeated it two weeks later. He is completely fine, x-rays, echo, blood test, urine and poop tests... everything healthy and fine.
But he has lost 20 grams in those 17 days and I think I'm going to lose my mind.
It is true that here in Spain we are through the longest and toughest heat wave of the year, but I keep him always in a good room temperature and I feed him more fresh veggies than usual. It is true that I felt his grief the first days and I looked over him almost 24/7 the first week. He didn't stop eating, but he is eating less. He keeps his appetite intact because he devours his treats and veggies but he seems to forget or doesn't care about the hay or pellets. I noticed he was less active, but he has been always a lazy piggy. He has never stopped wheeking for food, popcorning when ever I clean the cage or cuddling with me. This last days he has began to (I think) eat a little bit more, but tbh, I freak out when I saw he had lost 20 gr in two weeks being healthy and behaving almost normally. Even my vet has said to me not to worry about that loss too much, because is the heat wave plus the mourning time, so it is kinda normal. I will repeat all the health check in one week if he continues losing weight.
I still don't know if I'm doing everything right or I'm forgetting something so please, tell me about your experiences and tricks in this situations.
Thank you so so much.
