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constant clicking/grinding in 3year old cavie

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hello!
i have yet another problem with my little yumyum, i got back late last night from a week away in london and noticed she was clicking/grinding her teeth when i picked her up. shes normally very vocal but was silent apart from those noises, i thought it was maybe because i smelled diffrent ect and didnt really give it much thought.
but this morning ive noticed shes doing it constantly,i was sitting her checking emails and she was hunched up in her cage doing it.
The vet checked her teeth a few weeks ago when she was in because she had slowly lost a lot of weight and they said her teeth were fine. ive been scouring the net and have given her some extra vit c but i cant really find anything else helpful.
ive listend to her breathing and its normal, no rasping or wheezing, she still has soft poos but is eating normally.
nothings changed apart from the noise. she has plently of hard things to chew on. I'm lost and worried and really wish i hadnt gone away for a week, i checked with my neighbour who had been looking after her and she said she had been clicking all week but hadnt told me!!
I'm so worried about her, is it her age? her teeth?! gaaaah! :(:(:(:(:(:(:(
 
Hi, guinea pigs do grind their teeth - mine do it when they are annoyed but they don't do it constantly. Is she eating normally?
 
yep eating normally! shes only done it very occassionally in the last 3 years but now its constant. I'm really * hoping* that shes ok and its normal, but with all the other health things she had recently I'm slightly panicked!@)
 
I know it's so easy to get panicky when they get something they haven't had before.

If she's eating normally, not hunched up and seems herself, there may not be anything wrong. But clicking teeth constantly is not normal I guess.

Are you planning on taking her to the vets again to check this out?
 
yep first thing monday am I'm taking her down.. i know this sounds wierd but ive seprated her from her cagemate and i think shes stopped...do * think it was a stress thing? i had to seprate them before and they have been living sepratly untill this last week cz i was away. bon bon was bullying yumyum and she was stressed..I'm not sure..ill keep an eye out...
 
Some piggies do it all the time. Assuming the vet checked her molars and all was well I wouldn't worry.

Out of curiosity why did you seperate them? It can be more harmful to their partnership to do that than leave them together to sort it out. Assuming they're not pulling fur or drawing blood then the teeth chattering is a normal dominance thing. :)
 
i had to seprate them because bon bon was bullying yumyum, yum yum lost half her body weight ans kept getting mites. i took her to the vets who diagonised stress and suggested i seprate them for a trail period. this worked, yumyum put on wieght and has been pretty chilled since! they still get a lot of time together as they have been cage mates for the last 3 years and to seprate them totally would have been really sad!
 
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