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Please help with elderly guinea pig not eating
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Most of the UK people are sleeping right now (it's like 3am ...).
Those teeth would definitely cause trouble eating. Guinea pig incisors should meet evenly and wear/sharpen each other. Any uneven wearing (such as the teeth meeting at a slant or not meeting) is an indication of a bite problem. It might related to the lost tooth ... it could have caused him to chew funny or he may be favoring ... How did he lose the tooth?
I'm glad you were able to help your piggy, so he can eat, but I'd still recommend getting his teeth checked. You'll want to make sure his back teeth aren't overgrown.
Hopefully someone with more dental experience will be on in a bit to give you more infirmation.
Those teeth would definitely cause trouble eating. Guinea pig incisors should meet evenly and wear/sharpen each other. Any uneven wearing (such as the teeth meeting at a slant or not meeting) is an indication of a bite problem. It might related to the lost tooth ... it could have caused him to chew funny or he may be favoring ... How did he lose the tooth?
I'm glad you were able to help your piggy, so he can eat, but I'd still recommend getting his teeth checked. You'll want to make sure his back teeth aren't overgrown.
Hopefully someone with more dental experience will be on in a bit to give you more infirmation.
Please have your guinea pig checked by a vet and do not attempt to cut teeth yourself.
Ensure you switch to daily weight checks so you can monitor that he is getting enough hay and syringe feed intake to keep his weight stable at each day.
I hope he is ok
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Ensure you switch to daily weight checks so you can monitor that he is getting enough hay and syringe feed intake to keep his weight stable at each day.
I hope he is ok
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Syringe feeding is going well. He's ate about 20 mg of wet pellets. He's eating greens again after I cut his bottom tooth. I don't know why the other bottom tooth fell out. Do the top teeth need to be cut? They're supposed to come together at the tips right?
No do not cut them - there are risks of causing damage and pain and not something an owner should ever do. You need to wait until the teeth grow back in but the vet needs to check that it is a clean break that will regrow.
Wheekallweek
Adult Guinea Pig
Please pop him to the vet for them to look at his teeth. If his front teeth are overgrown like this, he could well have painful overgrowth and spurs on his back teeth, possibly trapping his tongue. Teeth should be burred, not cut. You risk breaking the tooth by cutting it, also squeezing it could cause pain.
I agree about having him see a vet.
Clipping the teeth yourself runs the risk of the tooth splitting, which can lead to major dental issues such as abscesses and gum infection.
If he is having tooth problems there may also be an underlying cause which needs to be checked by a vet with the correct tools and experience.
For example if the problem is further back in his mouth clipping the front teeth won't help with that.
Hopefully you have caught it early enough and a vet can just give his front teeth a quick tidy up and he will be fine.
Lost teeth tend to grow back quite quickly.
Clipping the teeth yourself runs the risk of the tooth splitting, which can lead to major dental issues such as abscesses and gum infection.
If he is having tooth problems there may also be an underlying cause which needs to be checked by a vet with the correct tools and experience.
For example if the problem is further back in his mouth clipping the front teeth won't help with that.
Hopefully you have caught it early enough and a vet can just give his front teeth a quick tidy up and he will be fine.
Lost teeth tend to grow back quite quickly.