My guinea pig is bleeding from her bottom and I don’t know what to do!

[Piggyvice]

Hi! First time poster! I have 8 guinea pigs and I think one of them might be sick.

I woke up and I check my piggies room and I saw blood in various places on the floor. I checked them all and I saw blood on one of their bottoms. I have had a similar experience with one of my older guinea pigs that had a uti and she lost her hair and it would pain her to wee. It just so happens that the Guinea who has been bleeding all over the floor is her sister. We are very worried and we don’t have the funds to send her to the vet. Any advice?

 

[Piggies&buns]

I’m sorry to hear this. I’m afraid she does need to see a vet - bleeding from the genitals or anus could be any number of issues but all of which require vet assessment, care and treatment.
Is there anyone who can help you with the vet fees?

All we can advise is that you switch from the routine weekly weight checks and instead weigh her daily and step in with syringe feeding if she loses weight (any pain can stop them from eating enough hay). This does not and cannot replace a vet check and proper treatment though.

I hope she is ok

Thread 'Emergency and Crisis Care as well as Bridging Care until a Vet Appointment'

Mar 14, 2019

1 Statement
2 Emergency assessment and accessing vets
- How urgent is my guinea pig's problem?
- Finding an emergency vet
- Seeing a vet not familiar with guinea pigs (including lists of safe and dangerous medications)
3 First Aid care and easily available products
- General 'always have at home' stuff and comfort measures for very ill guinea pigs
- Improvising support feed; recovery formulas...

• Wiebke
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Thread 'List Of Life And Death Out-of-hours Emergencies'

Oct 30, 2017

You need to contact and ideally see a vet at any time of the day or night as a potentially life or death emergency if your guinea pig has got these symptoms:

- Heavy or heaving breathing, this can include a visible effort with your piggy’s breathing (usually the abdomen sucking in and out showing they are using their abdominal muscles to breath) and any kind of open mouth breathing, these are signs of respiratory distress

- Seizures or loss of consciousness. For any fit which lasts more than around 2 minutes the vet should be called...

• Wiebke
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• Forum: Emergency Information and Care

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Also to add, a UTI doesn’t cause hair loss.
The symptoms of pain and hair loss would lean more towards ovarian cysts.