ToffeeFudge1
New Born Pup
Hi
We very sadly lost our new rescue Piggie this evening. We’d had her for just under 3 months. She was around 1 (exact age unknown). She was vet checked by the rescue and again by our exotic vet on arrival.
We recently noticed her sneezing. She then started to lose weight, and had eye discharge, so we got her to the vet the next day. They prescribed baytril and metacam for a URI and said it could be Bordatella, but that her heart and lungs were fine. 4 days later, she died.
My question is for our 3 other Guinea pigs - 6months, 3 years and a senior. The senior has already been checked by the vet for occasional sneezing (at the same time as her cage mate was diagnosed), but didn’t need antibiotics at that point.
Should I now get antibiotics for them all? I’ll thoroughly clean the cage and strip all the fleece bedding. What else can I do to reduce the risk for them? How many days / weeks until I know they won’t get sick too?
Thanks so much.
We very sadly lost our new rescue Piggie this evening. We’d had her for just under 3 months. She was around 1 (exact age unknown). She was vet checked by the rescue and again by our exotic vet on arrival.
We recently noticed her sneezing. She then started to lose weight, and had eye discharge, so we got her to the vet the next day. They prescribed baytril and metacam for a URI and said it could be Bordatella, but that her heart and lungs were fine. 4 days later, she died.
My question is for our 3 other Guinea pigs - 6months, 3 years and a senior. The senior has already been checked by the vet for occasional sneezing (at the same time as her cage mate was diagnosed), but didn’t need antibiotics at that point.
Should I now get antibiotics for them all? I’ll thoroughly clean the cage and strip all the fleece bedding. What else can I do to reduce the risk for them? How many days / weeks until I know they won’t get sick too?
Thanks so much.
