Guineapigfeet
Adult Guinea Pig
Sorry, this is very long and probably not that interesting, but it makes me feel better and calmer writing it all out as my anxiety is quite high at the moment!
Background: Rey has been at the vets a couple of times recently. She saw our piggy specialist, Ivan, a couple of weeks ago as I was a bit worried about her weight and I thought she’d been drinking a bit more than normal.
Ivan had a good look&feel everywhere, including showing me her back teeth (they’re so weird) and said no lumps, bumps, stones, pain etc and her teeth look great. He did say her kidneys felt a little small which could indicate the start of kidney disease, but it could also just be her anatomy as a dinky pig, so just monitor. Try to get her weight up a little by giving more pellets, and see what happens. She won’t eat more pellets so I’ve been offering a tiny amount of readigrass and alfalfa alongside her regular food but I’m pretty sure she’s never touched any of it!
Anyway, last week she had a day or so where she wasn’t pooing as much as normal, though what she did produce looked perfect. She was back to normal after a couple of days.
This morning she wouldn’t come out of her red bendy tunnel. She was alert in herself but she wouldn’t move. I tried tipping her out and she just turned around and moved further in. I left her and checked about 40 mins later and she haven’t moved. So I (gently) lifted/pulled her out. [Chewie went into that tunnel after/when she had a stroke and BB always used that tunnel when she was feeling poorly or recovering from operations, so I feel a bit squirley about it] She ran perfectly well into another house and glared at me. I checked again about a hour later and she was still there and hadn’t eaten any of her morning veg, not even the stuff right by the house. I got her an appointment (just 30mins later!) to see Djordje. He had a feel around and she did show signs of lower abdominal pain. He thinks she may have a UTI and has prescribed baytril and metacam. Hopefully that does the trick.
Djordje did say she was in lovely condition and he wasn’t too worried about her weight. He commented on how shiny she is and how well behaved she was being, snuggling into my neck while we talked (I was terrified; she’s not a cuddly pig and she’s likely to nip me quite hard when she’s had enough, but I didn’t tell him that!) he loves pigs and thinks they’re the best small animal. Which of course they are.
She wasn’t very well behaved taking her meds when we got home. I don’t know if she just doesn’t like metacam or if she thought one lot of medicine was enough thank you very much! Fingers crossed.
Background: Rey has been at the vets a couple of times recently. She saw our piggy specialist, Ivan, a couple of weeks ago as I was a bit worried about her weight and I thought she’d been drinking a bit more than normal.
Ivan had a good look&feel everywhere, including showing me her back teeth (they’re so weird) and said no lumps, bumps, stones, pain etc and her teeth look great. He did say her kidneys felt a little small which could indicate the start of kidney disease, but it could also just be her anatomy as a dinky pig, so just monitor. Try to get her weight up a little by giving more pellets, and see what happens. She won’t eat more pellets so I’ve been offering a tiny amount of readigrass and alfalfa alongside her regular food but I’m pretty sure she’s never touched any of it!
Anyway, last week she had a day or so where she wasn’t pooing as much as normal, though what she did produce looked perfect. She was back to normal after a couple of days.
This morning she wouldn’t come out of her red bendy tunnel. She was alert in herself but she wouldn’t move. I tried tipping her out and she just turned around and moved further in. I left her and checked about 40 mins later and she haven’t moved. So I (gently) lifted/pulled her out. [Chewie went into that tunnel after/when she had a stroke and BB always used that tunnel when she was feeling poorly or recovering from operations, so I feel a bit squirley about it] She ran perfectly well into another house and glared at me. I checked again about a hour later and she was still there and hadn’t eaten any of her morning veg, not even the stuff right by the house. I got her an appointment (just 30mins later!) to see Djordje. He had a feel around and she did show signs of lower abdominal pain. He thinks she may have a UTI and has prescribed baytril and metacam. Hopefully that does the trick.
Djordje did say she was in lovely condition and he wasn’t too worried about her weight. He commented on how shiny she is and how well behaved she was being, snuggling into my neck while we talked (I was terrified; she’s not a cuddly pig and she’s likely to nip me quite hard when she’s had enough, but I didn’t tell him that!) he loves pigs and thinks they’re the best small animal. Which of course they are.
She wasn’t very well behaved taking her meds when we got home. I don’t know if she just doesn’t like metacam or if she thought one lot of medicine was enough thank you very much! Fingers crossed.
