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Seizures - symptoms and causes Seizures, usually defined as your guinea pig suddenly falling to one side and becoming unresponsive while making repetitive twitching movements, are a symptom rather than a diagnosis in itself. Possible causes of seizures are: - Epilepsy in guinea pigs (rare!) In...

Hi. My daughter recently got 2 guinea pigs and we are first time guinea pig owners! We're in the UK and worried about the forecast drop in temperatures over night this week. They are outside in a hutch and we hope to manage them outside through winter, possibly moving them into a shed if it gets...

Thank you so much so gutting that this has happened already

Please leave the ear channels be and see a vet in the case they are badly affected by wax (which is always the same colours as the skin of the ear), dirt or an irritation that causes your piggy to shake their head or paw at the ear. Most ears don't never need any attention apart from the weekly...

Introduction 1 Why Does Fresh Food Need To Be Introduced Carefully 2 Introducing New Fresh Food into a Diet 3 Reintroducing Fresh Veg After A Break or Coming off Syringed Formula Feed 4 Introducing or Reintroducing Fresh Grass 5 Changing Pellets or Hay Brands 6 More Helpful Related Guides...

Piggies are just nice. And they are small, but very smart ❤️ and loving! I was shedding a tear over a very sad video of how a beautiful dog had been neglected for years on a chain in a shed and Truffle came across the cage and lay close beside me. I think most piggy owners have stories like that 🐾

If the spider was freshly shed and its shed was with it then it was most likely killed either by falling into the cage while shedding or most likely by the guinea pigs moving around it. When spiders first shed their exoskeletons they are completely soft and unable to even walk. I believe they...

My boy passed on Wednesday early hours of the morning (4am). We had tried to syringe feed him again at 1am but noticed he was unresponsive once I took him out and he started lolling onto his side so we rushed him to the emergency vets and they helped him pass so he wouldn’t struggle. Monday...

I’m in complete shock. I had posted here a few days/weeks ago about one of my boys Eggs. About 2 and a half and had some issues with his feet, hadn’t even developed to bumblefoot just yet but his meds were making him feel terrible. Stopped eating normally and got really closed off. He made a...

People who are shocked to see guinea pigs in a house are well out of step with welfare improvements and more recent developments in keeping guinea pigs. There has been a general worldwide shift to keeping them as indoors pets because you get a lot more interaction and enjoyment out of them as...

May I ask why you would not reccommend coconut oil? I've also used it to clear up skin and coat conditions under veterinary supervision. I have had very positive experiences and success with it thus far! Without sounding up myself (i think i already gave that impression to some people on...

Hi everyone, Currently getting organised to build my new guinea pig shed.....ordered my wire mesh to help keep rats etc out, now looking for clear c&c type grids. Where's the best place to get them from please? I've seen some online but they look a bit opaque, I'm really looking for completely...

Hi Hay pokes usually only reach into the antechamber of the eye but not into the eyeball itself, which is a closed body; so it is rare for an infection to penetrate as far as that without the eyeball itself to be penetrated - which is always a bloody eye and often one that cannot be saved. I...

Hi, My sister got two male guinea pigs a few years back as well as 3 enclosures, a run on the grass and a hutch and indoor run inside a shed we built for them. All was okay until they stayed at a ‘Guinea pig Hotel’ whilst we were away on holiday and were too close to female guinea pigs. They...

Interesting read thank you. The chart on there is also showing a very similar levels as the hay shed gives so she has lots to pick anyway. So far the meadow hay is just something she has decided to wee on haha. That's what she thinks about that! I think to be safe it will continue to be timothy...

Welcome to the forum Mine live outside in my shed also. I have insulated all walls, floor and ceiling of my shed with silver foil insulation, which helps a lot They have silver foil insulation, blankets and old duvets put over their cages (when they were in hutches they also had a thermal...

I need to put some flooring down in the shed for the guinea pigs (its currently bumpy concrete floor) that's waterproof. I was looking at coroplast but I'm not sure if it would work as they are normally used in c and c cages. Will they stay up? Also how to put them together as the space is...

Hello, We’ve just adopted our first guinea pigs, two 2 year old boars called Teddy and Pip. They’ve been having some dominance tussles since we brought them home a week ago, including a few fights with no blood shed, which thankfully have calmed down since we extended their cage to 6x2 and put...

Yesterday we said goodbye to Bianca, aged 5 years and 11 months. 11 months ago she was diagnosed with an inoperable tumour and the vet predicted that she would have a month to live, or six months if optimistic. From then on, Bianca's golden retirement began. Painkiller twice daily kept her as...

Hi You need to wait each time for 48 hours (2 days) after every bath or spot-on treatment in order to allow it to be full absorbed and not just washed away by the next treatment. This rule applies for both fungal and skin parasites. They do need unfortunately different treatments for each...