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Strange lump of tissue

Lucy2103

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This strange fleshy lump was on my guinea pig so I presume its come out of her... any ideas?
She's suffered with cystitis in the past but been well for a good 5+months now 🤞🏻acting normal and no other signs of anything else. Just two girls together, no males. 4 years old in June. Indoor guinea pigs.
Thank you!
 

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This strange fleshy lump was on my guinea pig so I presume its come out of her... any ideas?
She's suffered with cystitis in the past but been well for a good 5+months now 🤞🏻acting normal and no other signs of anything else. Just two girls together, no males. 4 years old in June. Indoor guinea pigs.
Thank you!

Hi

These kinds of lumps are always a bit of a mystery as they are usually one-offs.

If you have any concerns, please have her reproductive tract vet checked as much as her urinary one, since this could have come from there.
 
Hi

These kinds of lumps are always a bit of a mystery as they are usually one-offs.

If you have any concerns, please have her reproductive tract vet checked as much as her urinary one, since this could have come from there.
Thank you. If it was from her urinary tract or reproductive, is there anything that it could be?
 
Thank you. If it was from her urinary tract or reproductive, is there anything that it could be?

I wouldn't want to guess myself. We see far too few of these things on here - not even every year - but if there is anything wrong, then a hands-on vet examination could pick it up.

It doesn't look quite like a very occasional slip-through of a bit of the mucus that barriers the exit of the largest and last of the fermentation chambers in the lower gut (however, I cannot rule it out because it could have been drying up for longer than what we usually get to see from piggies with longer term gut problems where there is a direct connection and an owner who takes a very close look at the poo output) but things have been picked up in the reproductive tract very occasionally that were not good as a result of a sow with one of these mystery blobs seen by a vet, so it would be worth a check. Make sure that you can show the picture.
 
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