Damaris
Junior Guinea Pig
This has scared me this morning! One of my pigs, Rosie, is bar chewer. This morning she was chewing the bars at breakfast time and I saw what looked like a piece of hay stuck between her incisors. So I took her out the cage, towel wrapped her and thought it would be a fairly straightforward case of taking out the hay with a pair of tweezers. However, when I opened her mouth I realised that it wasn't hay, it's actually a very narrow piece of tooth material (a spur in essence, I guess) but it's coming out of the gum line itself. I pulled a little bit but I don't want to do any damage. I've contacted Vedra and my local rodentologist with a picture already but I'm just wondering if this is something anyone else has ever come across. At the moment her eating is normal and there is no weight lost. But I'm worried that this spur (if that's what it is) will snap off or it'll become infected at the gum line. Her incisors look ok length and shape wise at the moment. I couldn't check her back teeth thoroughly although superficially everything appears to be ok.
