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I have a 3yr/old boar that has been pretty healthy his whole life. Until recently, that is. He's been feeling kinda lifeless and floppy, not dead though. I look it up and it says something about having a stroke, and I know that they're subject to heat stroke and it's been REALLY hot in Oregon...

Around two days ago, I noticed my Jaq Jaq had milky discharge built up around his eye. I looked it up to find that it was normal. Now usually, I'd let it go but when I tried giving him some celery-which he usually will scarf down-he just nibbled on it. I noticed when I picked him up he was slow...

14 days ago my piggie gave birth to 3 live babies (2 girls 1 boy) and 1 stillborn boy. Everything was going great until about 4 days ago when mummy got the runs and I didn't realise how serious she had it until the next day when she, well she had some soft of fit and just passed away... the...

My three year old guinea pig just started making some odd noises about five minutes ago. It sounded like his stomach was grumbling but he's never made noises like this before. When I walked up to his cage to investigate he made an odd whining noise. I assumed that he was hungry so I gave him...

I've had a baby guinea pig for about a month now and the whole time I've been noticing she sneezes. It's usually never excessive, but yesterday she sneezed four times close together. Today it was once. She doesn't seem to have any other symptoms of a URI. She eats like a horse and drinks. She...

This is Snow, my little female piggie. I'm having a hard time telling the difference between if she is just very comfortable and relaxed or she is in much pain. She is eating and drinking okay. It's been pretty warm here so maybe she is just hot? Please someone answer. She jays there, feet out...

hello, I just got a 6 month old guinea pig today. I can understand that he is nervous, as he is shaking at different times, not moving, eating, or drinking. However, this foes concern me as I am beginning to worry about his overall health. We have checked all of the areas needed to see if he is...

Hi, I'm from the USA. My husband and I just bought two baby piggies from Petsmart (and now I know not to ever do that again because they may have come from a supplier that mistreats the animals). One of them has a little crust around her nose, and every once and a while she will let out a...

Preventing illnesses isn't that hard to do. Some GP's are born with bad genetics so the owner most times can't prevent the illness but should go straight to a vet. 1: Keep your piggie's cage clean. Guinea pigs are low to their cage and breath in step in and eat in their potty. Spot clean 1-2...

So I took all my guinea pigs to the vet, 2 of the new ones have a URI and my old ones are just getting over it now. What causes URIs? Is it lack of cleaning or something else? Thanks just interested to know for the future. I don't like giving them antibiotics a lot

I noticed some matting on my little pig's fur this afternoon and after a bath and a little haircut I uncovered 3 brown patches on his skin that resemble moles. My piggie is a rescue (we found him abandoned in a parking lot) and he is generally quite skittish, but he really doesn't seem to want...

Hi everyone. So a couple of days ago I noticed one of my pigs didn't want to come down for greens. She's normally waiting at her bowl about a half an our before greens time, so this was weird. I had to pick her up and move her to her food bowl. Once she was there, she ate fine. At this point she...

Hi all! First of all I'm new to the Forum. My name is Shaz, I'm from the UKabd have two youngsters called Bambi and Thumper, no older than 6 months old. Got them both together so they were living together before rehoming. Recently one of my piggies had been acting REALLY strange. Really scary...

I received two guinea pigs from my ex-boyfriends brother because they were neglected and they have been in a loving home since, but Charlie has been acting very strange and i'm extremely worried. I haven't been able to find anything online about it and I won't have money to take him to the vet...

Hello! I've been lurking on this forum for a while and would very much appreciate some advice. My 3yr old boar has been having teeth problems recently, but has been on the mend since seeing Simon the vet in Northampton. He's been on a strong antibiotic for a month, finished yesterday, plus .25...

my guineas pigs about 3 years old, hes not eaten for about a week. we took him too the vet and they put it down to bad molars they sorted them out and sent him back with antibiotics, painkillers and a very high vet bill. she said she couldn't find any other issues we reunited him with his...

My guinea pig is sick and I did research but I couldn't find much, I wanted to thank everyone who replied though, every comment was really useful! Questions: 1. My carrier is big enough for 2 piggies, should I let Coco's brother come along please? 2. Should I put food in the carrier please...

This is a pic of my piggie, I don't know what to do, PLEASE HELP! hat is going on PLEASE HELP ME! :help:

Hey, new to this forum! First, let me say that my girl (Neels - weird name, I know) is 6 years old, thus why I was not concerned when she began to lose a little weight; everyone I talked to about it said that this is normal. I have no way of weighing either of my girls, but I know that if I...

Hello, I'm here again. Just today around 3:30 I took Finnian, my 6-8 week old piggie to the vet to get checked for a URI. He said Finnian was fine, and all was well. I cleaned his eye boogers off gently with a warm Q-tip, and he was fine. When I was cuddling him, I noticed a strange clicking...