Amanda1801
Senior Guinea Pig
I came home from work today, and went upstairs to get changed. I was sat on my bed just having a watch of the pigs; Maggie was out eating her veg, Big Dave was in his pigloo (where else?!) when I heard what sounded like a squeal of pain. It wasn't Maggie as she was happily filling her chops in full view, so it had to be Big Dave. Experience told me that it was a "I have a urine infection" type squeal.
Out came the pigloo, and some white kitchen roll was dabbed around where the pigloo was - no sign of any blood, or even any urine. Out came Big Dave for an examination.
Big Dave has a lady in his life for the first time, so I've been vigilant as far as his boarly-bits are concerned as he's doing a bit more bum dragging than previously. I've been checking him every couple of days, and he's been reasonably clean each time. The last time I checked him was Thursday night.
I tried to extrude his penis tonight, and couldn't - within 30 minutes (including travel time!) he was at the vets; with a few pairs of hands, we managed to coax it out and there was lots of debris, and more cottage cheese than in the dairy aisle of Tesco! I was shocked at how much had accumulated over the space of 3 days.
He had it all cleaned, and he has a very sore, inflamed penis that was actually bleeding. He's now clean again, got some antibiotics, pain relief and probiotics. He's back in his pigloo munching away again within the space of an hour from his first squeal! Had I have left him, even until the morning, it could have been much much worse :...
Out came the pigloo, and some white kitchen roll was dabbed around where the pigloo was - no sign of any blood, or even any urine. Out came Big Dave for an examination.
Big Dave has a lady in his life for the first time, so I've been vigilant as far as his boarly-bits are concerned as he's doing a bit more bum dragging than previously. I've been checking him every couple of days, and he's been reasonably clean each time. The last time I checked him was Thursday night.
I tried to extrude his penis tonight, and couldn't - within 30 minutes (including travel time!) he was at the vets; with a few pairs of hands, we managed to coax it out and there was lots of debris, and more cottage cheese than in the dairy aisle of Tesco! I was shocked at how much had accumulated over the space of 3 days.
He had it all cleaned, and he has a very sore, inflamed penis that was actually bleeding. He's now clean again, got some antibiotics, pain relief and probiotics. He's back in his pigloo munching away again within the space of an hour from his first squeal! Had I have left him, even until the morning, it could have been much much worse :...
Sunday afternoon at the vets...typical!
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