augustlina
New Born Pup
Hi,
I recently (almost 1 month ago) got two guinea pigs and 2 days ago I noticed a change in their poop. I spot clean their cage twice a day and since we use dust free wood shavings I have to hand pick all the poops (gloved of course) and soiled litter. Lookwise their poops look same as always; dark brown, well formed; no weird shapes, with a slight shine HOWEVER they are not hard like they are meant to be. They don't crumble or break but are rather squishy, seems there is too much moisture in them? There is also a slight smell to them, not too strong and you'd definately have to be pretty close to smell it but obviously their poops did not smell before. I have stopped giving all excess foods and for the past 2 days have just stuck to Timothy hay and good quality nuggets. So far no change.
Behaviour wise they seem fine, if anything I would say more active than before since they are now fully settled in. So nothing else is wrong except the slightly stinky squishy poops..
Am I over-reacting?
I recently (almost 1 month ago) got two guinea pigs and 2 days ago I noticed a change in their poop. I spot clean their cage twice a day and since we use dust free wood shavings I have to hand pick all the poops (gloved of course) and soiled litter. Lookwise their poops look same as always; dark brown, well formed; no weird shapes, with a slight shine HOWEVER they are not hard like they are meant to be. They don't crumble or break but are rather squishy, seems there is too much moisture in them? There is also a slight smell to them, not too strong and you'd definately have to be pretty close to smell it but obviously their poops did not smell before. I have stopped giving all excess foods and for the past 2 days have just stuck to Timothy hay and good quality nuggets. So far no change.
Behaviour wise they seem fine, if anything I would say more active than before since they are now fully settled in. So nothing else is wrong except the slightly stinky squishy poops..
Am I over-reacting?