Dusty_bugs
Teenage Guinea Pig
Lots of you will probably have experienced something similar, but I thought I'd just report my little post op lady's progress and evolving behaviour!
On the day she got back, within an hour I would say we could hear crying, her eyes were very retracted, she was hunched and very 'hard' looking. very cold. So we got her some warm towels and encouraged her to eat a few home grown tomatoes.. She took the food and stockpiled infront of her.. nibbling on it inbetween falling asleep on it. Her sister was very careful and protective around her.. Very sweet..
Yesterday when I got home from work I managed to get some critical care from the vet for free, I wrapepd Dt up in a towel who very eagerly drank up her painkillers and then nommed about 3ml of critical care (I probably made it up a bit too watery).. She savaged some basil and a bit more pepper and cucumber. We got some wheat/barley hay out and she went crazy for it! Then we popped her back.. noticed a bit of spotting on the white towel I had her on.. I assume the disturbance had pulled her stitching a little.
Last night before bed she hardly touched the timmothy hay but got very comfy on the pillow I gave her, she doesnt move much at all but looks keen and bright. Leeland tried to come up once or twice to steal the cusion but DT made motions to bite her! Never seen that before. But no escalation. Leeland got the message and disappeared for 10 minutes. Eventually the rumbling got the better of her and DT was displaced. She flips between self protective to intimidated every so often. I set up another cusion but it wasn't the sweet spot obviously. They bullied each other intermittantly throughout the night but I had to go to bed at 10pm for an early shift this morning so couldnt stay with her. I wondered about splitting them but there is no chasing.. just lots of sounds and bums in faces.
This morning DT had the cusion, neither of them had touched the hay so much. I do wonder if that is actually normal, as usually it looks like they have had more because the rack is empty and the cage is strewn with it thinly... but today the hay was still clumped in the corner and the rack nearly full. :/ I put in some fresh stuff in two piles so DT could get some without Leeland eating it all first. They both tucked in.. I've asked the OH to top it up and tidy up before he goes to work - (so she's not lying her stitches on the hay!) and when I get home at 6 tonight I will give her some (less watery) critical care. no more than 10mls in one go but I doubt she will want more than 5 after having her pain killers as well.
her poops have been tiny and less frequent.. there are also a couple of squishy ones (not diarrhoea looking unless they get trampled). I'm wondering how long to keep the critical care up for. I don't like getting her out every day and bothering her stitches up. I know she should be healed by 10 days which is fast but I'm not comfortable tilting her upwards, stretching her skin and making the stomach muscles tense up. Surely the vet would have had to cut the muscle tissue to get to the cysts and ovaries etc.
Anyway, enough of my waffling. I might update the thread if anything else interesting happens!
On the day she got back, within an hour I would say we could hear crying, her eyes were very retracted, she was hunched and very 'hard' looking. very cold. So we got her some warm towels and encouraged her to eat a few home grown tomatoes.. She took the food and stockpiled infront of her.. nibbling on it inbetween falling asleep on it. Her sister was very careful and protective around her.. Very sweet..
Yesterday when I got home from work I managed to get some critical care from the vet for free, I wrapepd Dt up in a towel who very eagerly drank up her painkillers and then nommed about 3ml of critical care (I probably made it up a bit too watery).. She savaged some basil and a bit more pepper and cucumber. We got some wheat/barley hay out and she went crazy for it! Then we popped her back.. noticed a bit of spotting on the white towel I had her on.. I assume the disturbance had pulled her stitching a little.
Last night before bed she hardly touched the timmothy hay but got very comfy on the pillow I gave her, she doesnt move much at all but looks keen and bright. Leeland tried to come up once or twice to steal the cusion but DT made motions to bite her! Never seen that before. But no escalation. Leeland got the message and disappeared for 10 minutes. Eventually the rumbling got the better of her and DT was displaced. She flips between self protective to intimidated every so often. I set up another cusion but it wasn't the sweet spot obviously. They bullied each other intermittantly throughout the night but I had to go to bed at 10pm for an early shift this morning so couldnt stay with her. I wondered about splitting them but there is no chasing.. just lots of sounds and bums in faces.
This morning DT had the cusion, neither of them had touched the hay so much. I do wonder if that is actually normal, as usually it looks like they have had more because the rack is empty and the cage is strewn with it thinly... but today the hay was still clumped in the corner and the rack nearly full. :/ I put in some fresh stuff in two piles so DT could get some without Leeland eating it all first. They both tucked in.. I've asked the OH to top it up and tidy up before he goes to work - (so she's not lying her stitches on the hay!) and when I get home at 6 tonight I will give her some (less watery) critical care. no more than 10mls in one go but I doubt she will want more than 5 after having her pain killers as well.
her poops have been tiny and less frequent.. there are also a couple of squishy ones (not diarrhoea looking unless they get trampled). I'm wondering how long to keep the critical care up for. I don't like getting her out every day and bothering her stitches up. I know she should be healed by 10 days which is fast but I'm not comfortable tilting her upwards, stretching her skin and making the stomach muscles tense up. Surely the vet would have had to cut the muscle tissue to get to the cysts and ovaries etc.
Anyway, enough of my waffling. I might update the thread if anything else interesting happens!
We weighed her again and now she is 1100! She had eaten quite a whopping brekky (including nuggets, a bit of hay, 10ml of oxbow, pepper, cucumber, a whole cherry tomato and a couple of leaves of basil!) so I'm not massively surprised. But her poops are getting bigger and less wet and she even screamed for me this morning.. first major noise since before the op! xx>>>
but it is good that you took her to the vets straight away.I had a pig once who was glued right down her tummy. She nibbled at it slightly and had to go back to the vet to be 're glued'.