I agree with all of the answers above, please take your precious piggie to the vet for a diagnosis. Please update us and let us know the outcome if you can! Sending lovePig is 10 weeks.
What has caused this? How can I fix it and do I need a vet?
Pig is kept indoors, on fleece liners with a plastic corrugated flexible small animal tube. No access to wire bars or mess underfoot.View attachment 153293
Pododermatitis. Foot is not openly sore. Infection is internal. Vet thinks a small abrasion that let bacteria get under the skin. She said for this reason bathing would be ineffective.
Antibiotics and anti inflammatory drugs for 10 days.
She also strongly advised against fleece bedding but the fleece is softer and drier than the soiled Timothy hay. This is removed daily along with any faeces.
I'm none the wiser as to the cause.View attachment 153372
Hi!
We recommend to get hold of vetbed bedding online (there is plenty around for dogs; if necessary look for some cheap one), cut it up in patches so you can change the main sleeping and peeing areas 2-3 times daily. But changing the crucial fleece areas very regularly and replace them with freshly washed fleece can also work.
More tips for guinea pigs with mobility issues which you may find helpful in this guide here since bumblefoot is not rarely a secondary complication from sitting in the pee: Looking after guinea pigs with limited or no mobility
Its not from sitting in pee. I removed the plastic tube so the urine that fills the ridged tube doesn' aggravate and make it worse. He's been popcorning over dried coriander and fresh dandelion this evening so I'm hoping its not too painful and it'll heal nicely.
I will have a read if he starts showing lameness on it.
Will keep updating. Vets booked for a week hence.