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Brain Tumors

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Hi, not finding a lot of information about brain tumors in guinea pigs although I know they can get them. Anyone out there have any info. or experience on this?
Thanks so much.
Lara and the gangxoxo
 
Sadly for you (but luckily for me), I have no personal experience. Any piggies on here have rarely lived for very long.

Research on guinea pigs is more often than not very scant to non-existent, as they have been considered for too long to be too short-lived and too small to bother with. :(
 
Thank you so much Wiebke, I know that when my Skunky died of cancer and I wanted to donate her body to a vet school I was told no vet school takes guinea pigs, so how are they suppose to learn about guinea pigs then??!!! The only luck I have had was looking for information linked to rabbits and seeing if guinea pigs were mentioned enough in those documents to at least run it by a vet. Thank you again.
xoxo L and the gang
 
Well i spoke to my vet about this yesterday as one of my piggies as gone down hill over night, had an URI and been funny with food since for last 2 weeks well went back to vet yesterday and its more then likely and inner ear infection but worst case it could be a brain tumour. She said some piggies could exhibit symptoms for months and some non at all theres not enough research into it to be sure. Said some piggies will exhibit symptoms like those for an inner ear infection but what won't clear up with meds.
 
Wiebke said:
Sadly for you (but luckily for me), I have no personal experience. Any piggies on here have rarely lived for very long.

Research on guinea pigs is more often than not very scant to non-existent, as they have been considered for too long to be too short-lived and too small to bother with. :(
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Whenever I lose a piggy who has been poorly with anything unusual, I give Simon permission to open them up to have a look. It extends his knowledge and can hopefully help another piggy in the future.
 
The lady I help at clinics does this too as it really helps the vet (her local vet not the clinic one).
 
Good luck Degu_Rock, keep us posted. xxoo
I live in the US, what I have been finding is that the UK is more guinea piggy savvy in many ways.
Thank you for the info! :)
 
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