#sickguineapig

pls help my guinea pig choco keeps sleeping alone in a corner all puffed up. his cheeks also look abnormally puffy, but it’s just the fur. he sometimes makes a wheeking noise but it’s not very loud. he eats and drinks normally so i’m not sure what to do. is he sick? if i can’t take him to a vet...

Last week a rat got in with my Piggies and attacked the alpha one (Razor) since then his skin has got worse, this started off as two bite marks on either side of his back and now it’s all over his back. We’ve taken him away from the other 2 piggies (as well as shut them in so no longer allowed...

Hello, Looking for some advice. Our 6 month old texel guinea pig Casper has a suspected ear infection with a upper respiratory infection. He's been to the vets today and has been given oral antibiotics and anti inflammatory medication for a week. He's been very lethargic, got a crusty nose...

One of my piggies, a 6 year old (though she is very energetic and acts healthy), has been occasionally spitting up a cloudy white liquid after eating hay. It doesn’t happen very often since she tends to favor vegetables and pellets, but every once in a while she’ll start to favor her hay...

Hello, i am posting this again, as it is an emergency. my Guinea pig Ferdinand isn’t eating. He is pretty old (I’d say more than 5 years) and for the last 3 weeks he has been slower, and sleeps more. In the last 2 days he has not been eating, we took him out of his cage to feed him mashed banana...

Hello, i have 2 guinea pigs at the moment and one piggy (Lina) is really sick and is said to have about a few months left according to my vet. Her sister (Marley) is older and is outliving all her sisters who has passed away so eventually she'll be alone once Lina passes away. What can i do...

Hi. I have noticed that one of my female guinea pigs have been losing weight and hair, especially on her belly, but she has also lost hair in small patches on her back. She is very active and eats and drinks well, despite missing one of her lower teeth (she was missing the tooth when I adopted...

A few days ago I noticed one of my female guinea pig’s was limping on one hind foot, and was sitting more in her beds than usual. I Also noticed her bottom had gotten dirty, probably as a result of her sitting in one spot for a longer period of time. I wanted to take her to the vet straight...

My guinea pig Chocolate (almost 6 y/o) overcome mites a month ago and from that she had lost quite a bit of weight leaving her slightly bonier than usual. Overtime when she grew her hair back from the mites infestation, She started to look healthier and gaining more weight. Today I was feeding...

Took my Guinea pig to get checked out at the vet and they said he had bumblefoot. He has had bumblefoot since January 15. And we don't think it's getting any better. Because he keeps chewing it. We started wrapping his foot but he keeps taking it off. Then later on we noticed that he had sores...

Hi, my guinea pig Darwin was the runt of the group. He is shy of turning 1, but there has been some issues. He keeps falling over to 1 side, doesnt seem to be able to keep his balance, he has been puffing up his coat and quivering and chattering his teeth and just feels like something is...

I have a male guinea pig around 5 and he is barely eating, he eats when we feed him from a syringe and doesn’t fight it. His coat is puffed and fluffier than usual. He has less energy and is making very few sounds. I’ve had two guinea pigs that have gotten sick before we took them to a vet and...

Hello, * and my guinea pig has an eye issue that I'm worried about. It looks like her eye is bulging and discharge is coming out. It also turned red. I'm worried about her. The vet isnt open till next week. We called around and no one will take her. Does anyone have advice on how i can sooth it or...

My about 5 month old guinea pig (His name is Spot) has been feeling off for awhile. He would always squeak when I would give him food, but I noticed his eyes started to get discharge and he became silent when I gave him food. Spot still ate, but he wasn’t happy and squeaky like always. That was...

Hello everyone, I have two male guinea pigs. They seem to be around 6 months. One of them makes a strange sound, like pre-wheeking. I recorded a short clip of the noise. I’ve only had these two for 5 days, I do not touch them, they seem to be potty trained already, I am trying to get them to be...

My guinea pig has been behaving strangely. She hasn’t been taking her vitamins, she has a powder sprinkled on her food and she always eats it but she isn’t now. She’s been leaving some nuggets as well. She keeps sitting in corners, facing the walls. And her poop pellets have been half the size...

So today when I got home from school my 4 year old guinea pig was acting different then he usually does. The first thing I noticed was that there was white stuff around his eye, and he wasn’t moving a lot like he usually does when I get home. Then I started to realize that he hasn’t been eating...

Hi I have a guinea pig named bubbles. Recently he's lost a lot of weight and there was crusting round his eyes and nose. I took him to the vet and they said it's a nasal infection so I've been syringe feeding him hourly over last night and he put on some weight and it seemed he was getting...

Hi guys, this is my first ever post and I’m sick with worry about my piggy Scott, chronically ill myself and sleep deprived so please be kind. Scottie started showing symptoms 3 days ago. Unfortunately we’ve not noticed his weight loss which I really feel bad about. His eyes are small and as...