Hi there,
We've been away for 5 days visiting my parents and left our guinea pig in the care of the neighbours (who have two guinea pigs and two rats themselves). Had a call saying he had a cut on his back and looked like he'd scratched himself. On our return which was around 1.30am, our pig was curled up in the corner of cage and didn't popcorn or greet us like he would normally. Today I checked his back and there is a hairless V-shape kinda scabbed over. I was quite shocked actually. My neighbour who has two pigs herself, very kindly bathed the area with boiled and cooled water and applied some cream to the area and seems to be looking better. She says it might be because he misses us? I've noticed he's subdued and he hasn't squeaked once yet. He seems to be eating ok, I fed him a tiny piece of apple and a bit of tomato. He's usually quite active around his cage in the day but he seemed to be staying in his house a lot so I have taken it out. He is lay behind the picture frame at the moment. I feel quite bad for leaving him now .
Anyone else experience anything like this? Or have any advice?
Thanks x
We've been away for 5 days visiting my parents and left our guinea pig in the care of the neighbours (who have two guinea pigs and two rats themselves). Had a call saying he had a cut on his back and looked like he'd scratched himself. On our return which was around 1.30am, our pig was curled up in the corner of cage and didn't popcorn or greet us like he would normally. Today I checked his back and there is a hairless V-shape kinda scabbed over. I was quite shocked actually. My neighbour who has two pigs herself, very kindly bathed the area with boiled and cooled water and applied some cream to the area and seems to be looking better. She says it might be because he misses us? I've noticed he's subdued and he hasn't squeaked once yet. He seems to be eating ok, I fed him a tiny piece of apple and a bit of tomato. He's usually quite active around his cage in the day but he seemed to be staying in his house a lot so I have taken it out. He is lay behind the picture frame at the moment. I feel quite bad for leaving him now .
Anyone else experience anything like this? Or have any advice?
Thanks x