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Hello everyone.
I know this is my first post here but I'm hoping you guys might be able to help me. Unfortunately we lost one of the family guinea pig's this morning. Whilst he wasn't exactly young, he'd seemed perfectly healthy this morning so we're all a bit confused as to why he died.
After several hours searching on the internet I've come up with nothing particularly helpful, so I'm hoping that someone more knowledgeable might be able to shed some light on his passing. My apologies if this isn't the right place for this sort of thing, but I figure its got to be worth a try.
I gave him breakfast as usual in the morning and everything seemed fine. When I went to check on him a few hours later, he was lying down rather awkwardly. I picked him up to see if he was okay and he seemed really distressed. He wasn't moving well on one side and was making a very pained but quiet squeaking. Putting him down on the table to give him room didn't help, he kept trying to move but ended up going in circles. He didn't seem to be spatially aware either, he kept running into us. Eventually we got him to lie down and tried to make him comfortable. Sadly 5 minutes later he convulsed a couple of times and passed.
Does anyone know what might have caused this? He was about 4 and never had any health problems up until this point. What I'd really like to know was if he would have suffered at all. We guessed it might have been a stroke but it would be nice to know for sure.
So there you go. If anyone knows what might have happened, any info would be very much appreciated. Thank you, and my apologies once again if this isn't the right place to ask.
R.I.P Scamp. Safe crossing
I know this is my first post here but I'm hoping you guys might be able to help me. Unfortunately we lost one of the family guinea pig's this morning. Whilst he wasn't exactly young, he'd seemed perfectly healthy this morning so we're all a bit confused as to why he died.
After several hours searching on the internet I've come up with nothing particularly helpful, so I'm hoping that someone more knowledgeable might be able to shed some light on his passing. My apologies if this isn't the right place for this sort of thing, but I figure its got to be worth a try.
I gave him breakfast as usual in the morning and everything seemed fine. When I went to check on him a few hours later, he was lying down rather awkwardly. I picked him up to see if he was okay and he seemed really distressed. He wasn't moving well on one side and was making a very pained but quiet squeaking. Putting him down on the table to give him room didn't help, he kept trying to move but ended up going in circles. He didn't seem to be spatially aware either, he kept running into us. Eventually we got him to lie down and tried to make him comfortable. Sadly 5 minutes later he convulsed a couple of times and passed.
Does anyone know what might have caused this? He was about 4 and never had any health problems up until this point. What I'd really like to know was if he would have suffered at all. We guessed it might have been a stroke but it would be nice to know for sure.
So there you go. If anyone knows what might have happened, any info would be very much appreciated. Thank you, and my apologies once again if this isn't the right place to ask.
R.I.P Scamp. Safe crossing
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