Poor Toffee Loose Tooth

[Moffee Coffee and Toffee]

My female guinea pig, Toffee, has her two top teeth lose and I'm really worried about her. When I fed them (Moffee, Coffee and Toffee) cucumbers, Toffee would really gently nibble it instead of chomping it up like the others. I've only had her for about 4 months and I've read other people's stories and they had older guinea pigs who had this problem. Is it dangerous for her to have at such young age? She hadn't had any dental problems from what I known of. Her gum it doesn't look super healthy as well. I only found out about the tooth this morning. She can eat the leaves of vegetables though. What can I do about her? I haven't been to the dentist yet. I think she can still eat hay but I haven't seen her eat any yet. Please reply quick. Thanks

 

[Piggies&buns]

Eating hay is the most important part of the diet - if she isnt eating hay then you will need to step in and syringe feed her fibre rich recovery food or mushed pellets to ensure she is getting the fibre she needs. Weighing her daily will enable you to ensure she is getting enough hay/fibre.
You can cut veg into thin strips and hand feed it to her, but as I said hay is the essential part of the diet.

Please do have her seen by a vet

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[weepweeps]

I hope you can get in at the vets quickly. Keep us posted how she gets on.

 

[Viennese Furbabies]

Loose teeth always have to be seen by a vet who has experience with guinea pig teeth. Usually piggies with loose teeth can't bite anything off. It's great that she can still eat hay, but apart from cutting veggies into stripes and (possibly) hand feeding her, the loose tooth/teeth will have to be remove. Usually this kind of problem doesn't go away by itself.

Could be that she just had a little accident, but maybe the teeth are susceptible to breaking. With the right kind of care and a close monitoring of the teeth she won't have too much problems.
All the best!