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Hey everyone!
One of my boys Mayhem is currently unwell. He is 3.5 years old and never been unwell. Around 6 weeks ago or so he seemed to get a bit of a cold. A slight runny wet nose. I took him to the vet and they gave him metacom. Mayhem had it for a couple of days and it cleared up. Not long after that his poos started to change. They just got smaller. But still eating and drinking as usual. Seems bright and happy. As he seemed fine i didn’t take him to the vet. They got bigger again then smaller again and all this time he seemed fine. ( once he did kind of a string of poos that seemed to have some kind of mucus on them but only a tiny bit) he would also chat a lot when pooping. It was only when pooping and definitely not when urinating.
Fast forward to mid last week and I came down in the morning to see he hasn’t eaten any of his food. I thought It was because it was the end of the veggies and maybe it wasn’t as fresh as he was used to. My others boys all ate theirs though. They’re so spoilt and sometimes they will hold back if they think I’ll give them better!
So I removed the veg and put fresh stuff down. He went to eat them but kind of gave up. He would only touch certain stuff too like spinach and parsley. That night he didn’t eat his tea again. So the next morning I took him to an emergency vet appointment. She examined him, looked at his bottom, eyes, had a feel of his body and checked his breathing and all came back clear. So she said it was probably dental issues but she couldn’t see in his mouth as there was food in there and she couldn’t clear it. She gave him an injection for pain and gave me some emergency food pouches and metacom. She then told me to Monitor him over the weekend and book him in on Monday for her to inject him and put him to sleep and shave his teeth down if they need it.
Since returning home mayhem seemed to just look worse. He was actually fine before going, afterwards he was lethargic and was sat hunched with a Spiked coat! The vet had said not to give him metacom until the next day as he had had an injection but I could clearly see he was in pain so I stepped in and gave him 4/5 dose. And stroked him and held him. I didn’t want to wait to ‘ see if he improves’ so the next morning I booked him in at a vet an hours drive away where that specific vet loves Guinean pigs and has more experience. I was there by 10:30am and this vet was great, he could see in mayhems mouth unlike the other vet and confirmed that his teeth needed trimming. He said he would do it now and use gas as it was less risk than injection. He would also X-ray him and check for stones etc.
All came back fine, no stones, he can’t see anything wrong with him apart from his teeth.
He gave me a food syringe and and more painkillers.
mayhem Has now been home since yesterday afternoon so around 24 hours now. He seems spritely and not tired particularly. He wants to eat food but can’t seem to. I’ve read after dental treatment it can be hard for them. I’ve had to give him the syringe food which he hates.
What id like help with, is that he seems to be doing little internal involuntary jerks. Like he will be laying on me and then he will kind of like it’s a jab of pain or something. He can’t seem to get comfy too he keeps shifting his back legs and when I put my hand on his bottom it seems to be quivering but the rest of his body isn’t.
Something tells me something else is up but the X-ray didn’t show anything. His poos are soft and very small. They sometimes come with the mucus and sometimes not. I just want him to poo normally and to be able to eat again.
Has anyone experienced this? He has stopped talking now when he poos but to be honest his poos are tiny. He isn’t impacted. Everything has come back clear...
Thanks so much!
Jen and Mayhem
One of my boys Mayhem is currently unwell. He is 3.5 years old and never been unwell. Around 6 weeks ago or so he seemed to get a bit of a cold. A slight runny wet nose. I took him to the vet and they gave him metacom. Mayhem had it for a couple of days and it cleared up. Not long after that his poos started to change. They just got smaller. But still eating and drinking as usual. Seems bright and happy. As he seemed fine i didn’t take him to the vet. They got bigger again then smaller again and all this time he seemed fine. ( once he did kind of a string of poos that seemed to have some kind of mucus on them but only a tiny bit) he would also chat a lot when pooping. It was only when pooping and definitely not when urinating.
Fast forward to mid last week and I came down in the morning to see he hasn’t eaten any of his food. I thought It was because it was the end of the veggies and maybe it wasn’t as fresh as he was used to. My others boys all ate theirs though. They’re so spoilt and sometimes they will hold back if they think I’ll give them better!
So I removed the veg and put fresh stuff down. He went to eat them but kind of gave up. He would only touch certain stuff too like spinach and parsley. That night he didn’t eat his tea again. So the next morning I took him to an emergency vet appointment. She examined him, looked at his bottom, eyes, had a feel of his body and checked his breathing and all came back clear. So she said it was probably dental issues but she couldn’t see in his mouth as there was food in there and she couldn’t clear it. She gave him an injection for pain and gave me some emergency food pouches and metacom. She then told me to Monitor him over the weekend and book him in on Monday for her to inject him and put him to sleep and shave his teeth down if they need it.
Since returning home mayhem seemed to just look worse. He was actually fine before going, afterwards he was lethargic and was sat hunched with a Spiked coat! The vet had said not to give him metacom until the next day as he had had an injection but I could clearly see he was in pain so I stepped in and gave him 4/5 dose. And stroked him and held him. I didn’t want to wait to ‘ see if he improves’ so the next morning I booked him in at a vet an hours drive away where that specific vet loves Guinean pigs and has more experience. I was there by 10:30am and this vet was great, he could see in mayhems mouth unlike the other vet and confirmed that his teeth needed trimming. He said he would do it now and use gas as it was less risk than injection. He would also X-ray him and check for stones etc.
All came back fine, no stones, he can’t see anything wrong with him apart from his teeth.
He gave me a food syringe and and more painkillers.
mayhem Has now been home since yesterday afternoon so around 24 hours now. He seems spritely and not tired particularly. He wants to eat food but can’t seem to. I’ve read after dental treatment it can be hard for them. I’ve had to give him the syringe food which he hates.
What id like help with, is that he seems to be doing little internal involuntary jerks. Like he will be laying on me and then he will kind of like it’s a jab of pain or something. He can’t seem to get comfy too he keeps shifting his back legs and when I put my hand on his bottom it seems to be quivering but the rest of his body isn’t.
Something tells me something else is up but the X-ray didn’t show anything. His poos are soft and very small. They sometimes come with the mucus and sometimes not. I just want him to poo normally and to be able to eat again.
Has anyone experienced this? He has stopped talking now when he poos but to be honest his poos are tiny. He isn’t impacted. Everything has come back clear...
Thanks so much!
Jen and Mayhem
not trying to rumble-strut. One of my boys does this a lot and it is definitely not that!
