bladder stone

Hi everyone, I’m hoping this reaches the right people. I’m based in LA and my boy Chewie is going to need surgery to remove his bladder stone. I’m attaching a photo of it. I got to do the x-rays with Dr. Nenn at the LA Guinea pig rescue (you may have seen him in Saskia’s recent video). Dr. Nenn...

Hi there, Sorry for the long post, but we’d really appreciate any advice, stories, anyone can give. Our boy is about 4-5 years old (he was a rescue so unsure exactly), and about 3 weeks ago developed signs of bladder stones. He’s seen the vet twice, been given pain relief, anti inflammatories...

Hi piggie friends, I have a rare instance where my lovely boar Percy actually needs to lose some weight. He’s developed a tiny 1mm bladder stone and if he isn’t able to pass this himself, he would need surgery. Unfortunately at the moment the vet said it would be too high risk given his...

Hi everyone! Biscuit / M / 4 years You may or may not remember but in April i posted about my guinea pig that had a possible bladder stone. Biscuit was fine after it was removed but he never really stopped squeaking in pain when pooping. We all thought it was just a habit, but today he was...

Hi everyone, just wanted to share a couple things that came up on my last vet visit about 2 weeks ago. I'd like to hear expert opinions though. So, Geezer isn't having the best year so far- 3 hay pokes, of which one required emergency vet intervention, and more recently blood in urine...

Hi everyone, Last year my male guinea pig had a surgery to remove a bladder stone, it went well and he recovered quickly. 11 months later and he has another stone. He had it removed on Wednesday, he's now home with me and he's doing fine. My boy sure is strong! My concern now is that it might...

Hi, all. What kind of water do you use for your bladder stone piggies? Is a Brita filter good or should I be using bottled?

Hi everyone, I’m new here and I’m desperate for some help. My 3 and a half year old Guinea pig Nyla was diagnosed with a bladder stone about 2 weeks ago. The day of surgery, she actually passed the stone on her own and surgery was no longer needed. She was giving an extensive list of...

* quick warning, i am not an expert in bladder stones, i am not a vet or doctor. I haven't looked at studies or read hundreds of articles, so this might be one big mistake * ... But i think this might be very useful to someone with a bladder stone pig. I came across this interesting video...

Hello everyone, I live in Hong Kong. My Pig, Black Tea, is 3year and 8months baby. He has suffered the stone in the ureter rather than bladder now. He was around 860 to 890gram in September. However His weight have been dropping from 15 October to 23 Novemeber (850grm to 792gram) He had a CT...

My almost 4 year old male guinea pig Lemmy had a bladder stone removal surgery at the end of August 2021, and he was very happy and healthy after the surgery until very recently. I started to notice a random squeak here and there, and then noticed some urine sludge on his bedding. I've been...

Hi, I'm new here and nice to meet you all. I'm Jasmine a guinea pig mother of two boys (Thor and Dior) living in Melbourne, Australia. My Thor is 3 years 5 months old and this year has not been good to him. It started out with a hay poke, then bloat issues, and then a severe UTI which then the...

Hey, so I'm in a weird spot right now. I haven't been able to be home with my pigs because somebody in my household has covid and I was the only one who wasn't in the house when it happened. Where I'm staying there isn't room for the pigs, so my sisters been caring for them. Technically 2/3 pigs...

Hello! I have a 2 year old guinea pig, Charlotte. Poor girl is having a hard time health-wise. She had to visit the vet on Thursday as I suspected bladder stones. The vet did an x-ray and saw two small stones that she said she could pass on her own. One of these was already in her urethra, and...

My piggy Nutmeg, 4 years 9 months old, had surgery 2 weeks ago for a bladder stone that was stuck in his urethra. He was under anaesthetic for 4 hours (!) and lost a lot of blood. He had an x ray done the day before it became stuck and we were told it was sludge not a stone, but that’s a whole...

I’m after some general advice please on surgery cost. My piggy Biscuit (male, 3 years) has been diagnosed with bladder stone after an ultrasound and he needs surgery. We have already spent over £300 to get him diagnosed and our vets has now quoted over £800 for surgery! We really can not afford...

(First off I will say I’m planning to call the vet first thing tomorrow, and sorry for the rambling I just want to get any info needed out of the way.) My girl was diagnosed with bladder stones about a week ago, a big one in the bladder and a smaller one in her urethra. She was put on medicine...

Hiya, Our piggie Howard has suspected bladder stones. Unfortunately the vets he has seen haven’t been the quickest to diagnose anything and its been about 3 weeks since the first symptoms started. Vets gave him a week of Baytril to try incase UTI, however there was no improvement. In the last...

My pig is called Meng (boar). He had his first surgery today on May 18th in the afternoon. The stone is around 5.5mm on diameter and was discovered during the surgery that it is embeded inside the bladder wall. The bladder is filled with blood which indicates how severe the condition has already...

Hello! On Friday afternoon I noticed one of our boars (Mr Pig) was hunching over and being quite vocal, so naturally I sprung to action and went over to investigate and found little pink spots on the fleece. A quick bit of research seemed to indicate bladder issues such as an infection or...