Hello,
I’ve been giving Pip 1 capsule of cystease per day for a couple of weeks now. This is for her bladder and urinary health. She hates it! She doesn’t like me syringing it to her, sprinkling it on her food (she won’t eat the bits with a lot of the powder on it). She won’t eat it even with...
In January our wonderful girl Biscuit had to be put to sleep after she was found to have a large kidney stone that couldn't be removed. Then two months later we lost her sister Cake too after a prolonged illness. Despite numerous tests a specific cause could not be found, although this was also...
The Sherwood urinary are no better than oxbowurinarysupport. They won’t do any harm but we have seen no evidence that they will help, and can rather just be a waste of money. If you wish to provide glucosamine for urinarysupport then there are more effective ways to do it
...over the place currently due to work! However, I was wondering what people’s thoughts are on these products?
I read that the oxbowurinarysupport tablets are better? I also read on the packet of the oxbow ones that it’s not intended for growing Guniea pigs? Does that mean you can’t use...
Hello,
I have been using the oxbowurinarysupport treats for my piggy Lily as reccomended by the vet for support with stones and sludge. I am however struggling to source any at the moment and get the impression this might be a regular issue. I have almost ran out comepltely so was wondering...
Hi everyone, I’d appreciate any advice for my beloved 7 year old girl Oreo. She has a known bladder stone and occasionally urinates blood but I’ve never seen it bright red like this or sprayed throughout the cage. There’s also a blood clot and her weight dropped from 919 to 874 in one day and...
...on the meloxaid bottle 0.5 ml/mg? (i.e. cat metacam)?
What glucosamine product are you exactly using in addition to Oxbow? Oxbowurinarysupport is on the low side for an acutely affected piggy.
Has your vet also checked for arthritis, which is pretty common at her age? Please make sure...
Thank you everyone
She has been a bit better today, sticking her head out of hidey for veg and moving around a bit more. I haven't heard any wee whimpering. I have spotted her nibbling hay on her own a couple of times. I need a wildlife camera in the piggy room to catch her candid behaviour...
...of bayril. Which she has now finished. She is on a dose of Meloxaid once a day for pain and anti inflammatory.
I give her 1 oxbowurinarysupport treat each day and glucosamine. She’s eating and drinking, enjoying her, veg, grass and hay, but she does have her quiet days now and again.
I was...
Is it completely safe to add Oxbow's UrinarySupport vitamin, or, if all turns out completely okay with his urinary tract, just adding Oxbow's Joint Support since he has arthritis and loss of muscle mass from old age? If not, I will hold off until speaking to the vet. Just curious if that might...
...(we are instead), which is sad because guinea pigs are her special interest.
She is on rheumocam, potassium citrate, and oxbowurinarysupport tablets. She has filtered water. She also has oxbow vitamin c tablets.
We are worried that she is in pain and we don't know. We don't want anything...
Hi!
With becoming the main caretaker of my piggies (we got Nöpö & Lakrits while I was still a kid and it was actually my little sister who wanted them! 🙈) I've for the past almost 2 years been researching to improve the health and living conditions of my piggies as much as possible (going from...
Hello and thank you,
Yes of course, she’s having 0.04ml of metacam which is the cat strength one. She currently weighs 840 grams (she’s always been little I had her as a rescue, my biggest piggy is 1.2kg 😂)
I do her weight every other day in the morning so it’s consistent.
I am using feliway...
PS: No there should only be one form of glucosamine. Either Piggy Parcel Pellets, Johnsons 4joints dog liquid or Oxbow - the latter of which is the weakest in strength.
The medication level sounds good to me.
The need to drink comes before the need to eat so if she is starting to show interest in food, then she should not be dehydrated. The individual need for fluid varies from not drinking at all to going through through a whole big bottle in a day - and if...
No - it's what works best for you.
The Piggy Parcel pellets are the new kid on the block but they contain the right amount of glucosamine as well (other than the Oxbow ones). Not all piggies like those pellets; that is always the gamble and why it is good to have alternatives.
Some piggies...
Funny you mention that, I stopped pellets a fair while ago, but I got a delivery of the joint and urinary Piggy Pellets yesterday haha. They've only tried them once so far, but they ate them (they're a lot smaller than I expected) but that's good. I might only give them once a day, but the added...
There have been threads since earlier this year about difficulties getting OxbowUrinarySupport biscuits (and other Oxbow things). Not sure what is up...
However a more easily available alternative is Feliway Cystease capsules (you open the capsule and mix the powder with water or can...
I’m sorry to hear this and sorry for your loss
Glucosamine isn’t a prevention for stones or crystals. It just helps strengthen the natural glucosamine layer in the bladder.
The oxbow products, to my knowledge, are pretty low in glucosamine anyway. I would not use them as they won’t prevent...
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