Keelaine
Junior Guinea Pig
Chocolate was my fist guinea pig. It was love at first sight when I first saw her and I bought her. That was the start of my journey in keeping guinea pigs as pets. Throughout her 6 years of life, chocolate has no medical issue except mites infection when she was young. She had mites when I bought her.
At the start of May, I noticed that she is losing weight for no reason even though she was eating and drinking well and was active. I brought her to the vet just in case. The vet did an x-ray after she felt a mass in chocolate's abdominal and the x-ray confirmed it. My heart dropped. The vet recommended to have a surgery to remove the mass and she said that hopefully, the mass is attach to the reproductive system and just have a spay surgery. If it is not, then chocolate's prognosis won't be good.
On the day of surgery, I brought chocolate into the clinic. Chocolate seems to have sense that something is not right and keeping biting her carrier, wanting to come out. When they vet wants to check her, she refused and ran to me. At that moment, I really did want to cancel the surgery because I was afraid that I might lose her on the table. But if she doesn't go for surgery, it is a sure thing that she will die because of her weight loss.
During her surgery, the vet called and my worse fear came through. Chocolate's abdominal mass is attach to her liver, spleen and some parts of the intestine. The mass couldn't be remove as it is actively bleeding and chocolate will bleed to death if attempted. My mind went blank when I hear the news.
So I asked the vet to close chocolate up and waited for my boyfriend to come down and we put her to sleep. Many times, I wanted to cancel the euthanization and let Chocolate live out her days. But I can't because she was in great pain and will continue to lose weight.
Chocolate, I hope you are running happy and free with no more pain. I miss you and I love you.
Last pictures of chocolate:
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At the start of May, I noticed that she is losing weight for no reason even though she was eating and drinking well and was active. I brought her to the vet just in case. The vet did an x-ray after she felt a mass in chocolate's abdominal and the x-ray confirmed it. My heart dropped. The vet recommended to have a surgery to remove the mass and she said that hopefully, the mass is attach to the reproductive system and just have a spay surgery. If it is not, then chocolate's prognosis won't be good.
On the day of surgery, I brought chocolate into the clinic. Chocolate seems to have sense that something is not right and keeping biting her carrier, wanting to come out. When they vet wants to check her, she refused and ran to me. At that moment, I really did want to cancel the surgery because I was afraid that I might lose her on the table. But if she doesn't go for surgery, it is a sure thing that she will die because of her weight loss.
During her surgery, the vet called and my worse fear came through. Chocolate's abdominal mass is attach to her liver, spleen and some parts of the intestine. The mass couldn't be remove as it is actively bleeding and chocolate will bleed to death if attempted. My mind went blank when I hear the news.
So I asked the vet to close chocolate up and waited for my boyfriend to come down and we put her to sleep. Many times, I wanted to cancel the euthanization and let Chocolate live out her days. But I can't because she was in great pain and will continue to lose weight.
Chocolate, I hope you are running happy and free with no more pain. I miss you and I love you.
Last pictures of chocolate:
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