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New Born Pup
I adopted a sow Jing on Sept 10. Even though I had three guinea pigs before but I made mistakes on how to make her adjust to her new home.
One different thing about Jing is she does not make any noise when she is in the cage or handled. Her foster told me that most time she just sat there.
Jing did not drink water out of bottle. So we gave her lots of vegs to keep her dehydrated. The mistake was the water bottle we had. She did not know how to use it.
She developed a case of bloating. [URL=http://s1067.photobucket.com/user/xcai67/media/Jing%20X-Ray%202%20Small_zpszz2eyltm.png.html]
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Jing stopped eating on Sunday 09/18 and has been hand fed since. I did 5ml CC and water /2 hours Sunday and over night. Monday 09/19 she started eating hays and vegs.
She is not on AB even though the vets did give her ABs. Because she was eating more each day I decided not to use ABs on her to ruin her appetite.
I have been given her 1 or half dropping a day from other health guinea pigs, probiotic(2 times), infant gas relieve drop (0.15ml 2 times) and Metoclopramide 0.5ml (1mg/ml). I only did the Metoclopramide once a day because she has been producing droppings. With only 1 slice of cucumber. I gave her Vitamin C treats from Oxbow. Putting her on pillow over a massager.
Currently hand feeding her 4-5ml/3 hours.
During the whole two weeks she had been quite and no chatting when she was in the cage or being fed.
Yesterday at 6:00 PM she was quivering when I touched her. She was not very gassy at the time. I gave her 0.06ml metacam (0.5mg/ml). At 9:20PM she was very active and it went on until this morning 6:30AM.
At 10 PM last night she was also given Metoclopramide.
At 2:30AM she was drinking water and walking around talking which never happened before. I gave her 3 ml of Pedilyte. On the way to the kitchen she was very loud. In fact first time we ever heard her scream like that. 6:30 AM she was walking around on the floor for a while when I cleaned her cage.
On top the active behavior her droppings were drier than all the days before. I fed her not less water than before. Does the pain medicine cause dehydration?
Is her behavior change due to the pain medicine? Because she is not in pain so she is chatty? Both Vets did not think she was in pain. In fact I had to ask for the pain medicine. I did give her metacam twice before and did not notice the behavior change.
Has someone experienced this? Her active behavior gives us hope that she is getting better but today she is quite again.
Sorry for the long post.
One different thing about Jing is she does not make any noise when she is in the cage or handled. Her foster told me that most time she just sat there.
Jing did not drink water out of bottle. So we gave her lots of vegs to keep her dehydrated. The mistake was the water bottle we had. She did not know how to use it.
She developed a case of bloating. [URL=http://s1067.photobucket.com/user/xcai67/media/Jing%20X-Ray%202%20Small_zpszz2eyltm.png.html]
[/URL]Jing stopped eating on Sunday 09/18 and has been hand fed since. I did 5ml CC and water /2 hours Sunday and over night. Monday 09/19 she started eating hays and vegs.
She is not on AB even though the vets did give her ABs. Because she was eating more each day I decided not to use ABs on her to ruin her appetite.
I have been given her 1 or half dropping a day from other health guinea pigs, probiotic(2 times), infant gas relieve drop (0.15ml 2 times) and Metoclopramide 0.5ml (1mg/ml). I only did the Metoclopramide once a day because she has been producing droppings. With only 1 slice of cucumber. I gave her Vitamin C treats from Oxbow. Putting her on pillow over a massager.
Currently hand feeding her 4-5ml/3 hours.
During the whole two weeks she had been quite and no chatting when she was in the cage or being fed.
Yesterday at 6:00 PM she was quivering when I touched her. She was not very gassy at the time. I gave her 0.06ml metacam (0.5mg/ml). At 9:20PM she was very active and it went on until this morning 6:30AM.
At 10 PM last night she was also given Metoclopramide.
At 2:30AM she was drinking water and walking around talking which never happened before. I gave her 3 ml of Pedilyte. On the way to the kitchen she was very loud. In fact first time we ever heard her scream like that. 6:30 AM she was walking around on the floor for a while when I cleaned her cage.
On top the active behavior her droppings were drier than all the days before. I fed her not less water than before. Does the pain medicine cause dehydration?
Is her behavior change due to the pain medicine? Because she is not in pain so she is chatty? Both Vets did not think she was in pain. In fact I had to ask for the pain medicine. I did give her metacam twice before and did not notice the behavior change.
Has someone experienced this? Her active behavior gives us hope that she is getting better but today she is quite again.
Sorry for the long post.
