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Bann is eating fine, and his weight's fine. His front teeth look fine, he does seem to have a slightly shorter bottom left tooth but there's a couple of mm in it at most. Everything I can possibly check, it's fine. No lumps, no bumps, nothing.

So, is there another reason he could be pawing at his mouth occasionally? It doesn't seem to be fixed to one side, either that or my problem with telling left and right occasionally is tripping me up, but he's otherwise entirely normal. I realise I might just be being paranoid, Bann does have his moments like this occasionally. I know guinea pigs can hide their pain pretty well and it's when I saw Comet in pain for that brief moment that I took him to the vet, but if Bann's in pain he's exceptionally good at hiding it. There's no signs of anything abnormal.
 
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Bann is eating fine, and his weight's fine. His front teeth look fine, he does seem to have a slightly shorter bottom left tooth but there's a couple of mm in it at most. Everything I can possibly check, it's fine. No lumps, no bumps, nothing.

So, is there another reason he could be pawing at his mouth occasionally? It doesn't seem to be fixed to one side, either that or my problem with telling left and right occasionally is tripping me up, but he's otherwise entirely normal. I realise I might just be being paranoid, Bann does have his moments like this occasionally. I know guinea pigs can hide their pain pretty well and it's when I saw Comet in pain for that brief moment that I took him to the vet, but if Bann's in pain he's exceptionally good at hiding it. There's no signs of anything abnormal.
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Hi

Perhaps he has got something stuck in his mouth he cannot dislodge?
 
Might he just have a bit of hay or a spinach stalk or something stuck annoyingly between his teeth? I've seen Theo do this sometimes, also yawning then doing a thing like he's trying to swallow his own paws lol- often its a "forgot to chew now its stuck" thing that resolves with a few drinks of water, or even better by eating something else that dislodges it.
Keep an eye obviously which I'm sure you are doing anyway, and if it lasts more than 24 hours or gets worse a vet check wouldnt hurt, but may just be a greedy boar thing- like when they get hiccups and you think they are having convulsions but they just ate too fast :)
 
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like when they get hiccups and you think they are having convulsions but they just ate too fast :)
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:)) Been there, done that!

I think it's like you and @Wiebke said, something's probably lodged in there. Small enough I didn't see it, and small enough it's bugging him but not stopping him eating. I'm thinking it might be the parsley, the timeline fits.

One of these days it'll be Cam trying to worry me to death. One day.
 
An hour later and he looks to have shifted whatever it was, and I can take a deep breath and remind myself it's okay to be paranoid sometimes. Even if he is still giving me the stinkeye from earlier! On a positive note he's getting much better about being handled, I know it's been nearly a year but he actually let me pick him up from the middle of the cage rather than being lifted in a bed, which is massive for him.
 
Update 2: gave them both a bit of parsley again, and wouldn't you know it, Bann's doing it. Again. :doh: So yes, definitely the parsley at fault. It'd probably help if he stopped trying to inhale his food but miracles rarely happen.
 
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