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CarnivalPiggy

CarnivalPiggy

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I'm honest to god freaking out. I had the guinea pigs under supervision as they ate hay off a puppy pad (newspaper was under a bunch of heavy stuff) until my sister who recently came out of surgery had her wound's filling fall out and bleed etc. My mum is already in hospital for my ill nan so she couldn't pick her up, so I walked there with her in a rush. Came back to find this. I feel horrendous knowing this could have been prevented. They're all bright eyed and eating. Ginny doesn't chew on anything so I think it was either Peppa or Porridge or both. I checked them over, weight is fine and I don't know if I'm imagining if they're stomachs are hard or not as I don't usually check their stomachs so thoroughly unless for health check.
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Daisy has eaten more than that before, she seems to have a personal liking for puppy pads. She's been fine every time she's done it so just keep an eye on them but i'm sure they'll be fine
 
Mine chewed a twiglets tube once :oops: (I discovered this by accident when I thought it would make a nice hidey) and they are foil lined! The piggies were fine. In fact they ate the foil lining and left the cardboard! Needless to say I haven't made this mistake again. They probably liked the taste of twiglets! Who could blame them? Twiglets are yummy.
 
Thank you, they've had a few nibbles when they got under the fleece (which I've now sorted so they can't much to their irritation) but for a long time haven't seen more than a tiny bit bitten off as Ginny's never been interested in it. I'll keep an eye on the, and seperate during dinner so I can monitor their output
 
You aren't alone. Mollie and Mabel nibble theirs if I don't cover it fully. And my foster piggy has been transferred back onto newspaper and shavings after making it her mission to burrow under the fleece and devour the puppy pads. She has come to no harm.
 
:( bottom of Ginny's stomach is sensitive. I didn't think he would have consumed any of it.

Wrote that a few minutes ago. Ive had him on my lap for about 10-20 minutes or so and have noticed the sensitivity has gone a bit and his poo, which was quite small minutes ago is starting to return to his normal state. I noticed there was quite a few hairs stuck in his privates which I've removed. Is it possible for neutered boars to get impaction? I hesitate to wonder but other than multiple poos that just came out of the normal place there was one that either was stuck, or appeared to have appeared from his penis.
 
He just did a wee, no blood wheeking etc. Producing a lot of poo, albeit many small, though improved as I was putting him in the cage, No fluffed coat
Seems quite alert.

Put him in cage, eating hay. Seems to be purring a lot to the girls to make up for the prodding he's gone through lol.

It could be a bit of gas. I had this problem quite a few times with Minja, rest in peace, as she was prone to it. Until a vet visit or it went away, I would get a snuggle safe heated for her and an electronic toothbrush to massage her sides and stomach gently. However, as this is Ginny and not her, I'm not sure what to do. I'll be checking on him again in 20-30 minutes. I decided to take away his fresh food, veg, for tonight in case.
 
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Mine love the blue plastic bit, little horrors. They are always fine. If you are worried make sure they eat plenty of hay to keep everything moving. I think a guinea pigs gut transit time is 4 hours, so this is how long it will take them to pass any unwanted material.
 
Lady Kelly said:
One of mines had a good chunk of rubber off a dustpan. They also had the plastic off the hay bag when I left it to close to the cage. Another had a bit of house plant. They love eating what they shouldn't!
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One of mine LOVES the rubber on the dustpan. She often comes running as soon as I put the dustpan in the cage. Obviously I don't let her eat it now but she had a good few nibbles before I realised what was going on.
I'm sure your three will be fine @CarnivalPiggy .
 
Thanks to this thread I've just realised the dustpan nibbling is also not unique to my girls. My dustpan looks like a shark has been at the rubber strip. They all make a beeline for it!
 
The things my boys eat, you would honestly believe I never fed them at all.

Puppy pads, the correx edges of their cage, the rubber bit on the dustpan, the bristles on the sweeping brush, the plastic bag that the hay comes in, the bin bag when I'm cleaning them out, the table leg during floor time, the carpet (!) during floor time, wood shavings, the plastic wrappers on veg when they're "helping" do their dinner.... the list goes on.
 
Don't worry I have a list as long as my arm of things that my girls have eaten. Mine have also once eaten around half of a puppy pad and were absolutely fine, though they are not allowed puppy pads anymore. They are daft things that eat anything.

My list is, puppy pad, cuddle fleece pulled from a cuddle cup, newspaper, foam from a strawberry bed, base of a strawberry bed, correx, taurpaulin, plastic bin bag. There are possibly other things as well!
I also realise that list makes me sound like a bad Mum but I just have the naughtiest guinea pigs, especially Tina who is an abysinnian and has definitely got abytude.
 
Hank288 said:
Don't worry I have a list as long as my arm of things that my girls have eaten. Mine have also once eaten around half of a puppy pad and were absolutely fine, though they are not allowed puppy pads anymore. They are daft things that eat anything.

My list is, puppy pad, cuddle fleece pulled from a cuddle cup, newspaper, foam from a strawberry bed, base of a strawberry bed, correx, taurpaulin, plastic bin bag. There are possibly other things as well!
I also realise that list makes me sound like a bad Mum but I just have the naughtiest guinea pigs, especially Tina who is an abysinnian and has definitely got abytude.
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I had a boar eat almost entirely through a plastic bowl before. He did it overnight so I woke up in the morning and couldn't work out where his bowl was. Nobody gets a plastic bowl unsupervised anymore.

Comet's eaten carpet and tried gnawing his way through my letterbox more than once. Little terror. He's one of the reasons I won't use fleece bedding because he seriously can't be trusted.
 
Goodness lol, interesting antics

Took him to the vets anyway. Vet said he seems fine, no swelling of the stomach etc etc. Bit worried about his poo output tho. Still I need to have a more positive thinking :)
 
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I'm honest to god freaking out. I had the guinea pigs under supervision as they ate hay off a puppy pad (newspaper was under a bunch of heavy stuff) until my sister who recently came out of surgery had her wound's filling fall out and bleed etc. My mum is already in hospital for my ill nan so she couldn't pick her up, so I walked there with her in a rush. Came back to find this. I feel horrendous knowing this could have been prevented. They're all bright eyed and eating. Ginny doesn't chew on anything so I think it was either Peppa or Porridge or both. I checked them over, weight is fine and I don't know if I'm imagining if they're stomachs are hard or not as I don't usually check their stomachs so thoroughly unless for health check.
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I've heard of this a lot. I'm obviously not a vet but I think it,ll be alright. X
 
Crunchies probably eaten her way through several puppy pads over the years! Ofcourse I prevent it best I can but sometimes the vet bed moves a little and she pulls the pad up from underneath the minx!

The worst one was Fudge about 3 years ago. I was away for the weekend with my partner and left my 3 sows with my partners brother... came home to find my girls all out for floor time whilst he chatted on the phone.. fudge no where to be seen..
She was under the bedside table chewing her way through the straighter's wire... the cable and the actual metal wire!

It was a tense time as she actually had a little bleeding from her bowel because of the wire, luckily with vet treatment she was fine... but I didn't speak to my partners brother for quite a while after that!
 
My lot nibble at the blue edges of the incontinenceoads because they stick up over the cage liners and they have nibbled at puppy pads, but nothing serious. Their Correx ramp to the loft took a beating though.
 
Lol the dust pan nibbling must be a universal thing. Mine chew on it too and the plastic cat poo scoop I use to scrape up the poo and hay.
 
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