LydiaMinx
Teenage Guinea Pig
I re-homed Pip about a week and a half ago and she has been introduced to my girls Pumpkin and Pepper with no hiccups. Pip was quarantined for a month prior to me re-homing her so she is in great health with nothing transmittable to the others.
She's started enjoying lap time now (I don't think she was ever handled before coming here, she'd wet herself whenever you picked her up), so I tested whether she was a piggy that likes chin strokes...she is!
However she has a lump under her chin on the left hand side. It is free moving and firm, so could be a very old abscess or a tumor of some sort. The chances of it being an old abscess are fairly high, she was up for re-homing as she was being bullied by the other pigs, half of her ears have been chewed off on both sides, so a missed bite that became an abscess wouldn't be surprising.
It is however tucked quite close to her neck, almost in exactly the same place Boris had his lump, which turned out to be a lipoma. Badger also had a chin lump though, and that was a much more sinister tooth root abscess which unfortunately led to his passing after much fighting.
Pip isn't the least bit bothered by me touching it though, which I suppose is a positive?
So I've managed to get another piggy with a chin lump. I'm quite worried that she'll have to have surgery to remove it, she's only 12 weeks or so!
Has anyone had a young piggy in surgery? How did it go? I seem to have a knack of ending up with broken animals....
She's started enjoying lap time now (I don't think she was ever handled before coming here, she'd wet herself whenever you picked her up), so I tested whether she was a piggy that likes chin strokes...she is!
However she has a lump under her chin on the left hand side. It is free moving and firm, so could be a very old abscess or a tumor of some sort. The chances of it being an old abscess are fairly high, she was up for re-homing as she was being bullied by the other pigs, half of her ears have been chewed off on both sides, so a missed bite that became an abscess wouldn't be surprising.
It is however tucked quite close to her neck, almost in exactly the same place Boris had his lump, which turned out to be a lipoma. Badger also had a chin lump though, and that was a much more sinister tooth root abscess which unfortunately led to his passing after much fighting.
Pip isn't the least bit bothered by me touching it though, which I suppose is a positive?
So I've managed to get another piggy with a chin lump. I'm quite worried that she'll have to have surgery to remove it, she's only 12 weeks or so!
Has anyone had a young piggy in surgery? How did it go? I seem to have a knack of ending up with broken animals....
