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guinea pig attacked by a rat -any advise to help til i get to vet

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It's a good sign if she went for her food but like you say it might be painful for her. I hope the vet can see her tomorrow, perhaps he can give her a painkiller or something to help with the pain. Give her a little kiss and hug from me.

Joy xx
 
How upsetting, and what a shock for both you and your pigs :(

If she isn't able to eat if it's painful, but seems to be showing interest in the food, would be be possible to offer her some through a syringe, or even to be licked off your finger? Either some mushed up pellets or a bit of slightly warmed organic babyfood vegetables? Poor little sweetheart, fingers crossed.
 
That is horrible just a baby as well bet the rat was bigger than her poor bubba. One of my guinea pigs Mouse, got attacked by a ferret twice, I walked in to where my guinea pigs were kept and there the ferret was with his jaw around Mouse's head. I went crazy raged in and pulled the ferrets jaw open with my hand, cause they lock right on with their jaw, I was bleeding but at least Mouse was safe.
 
I'm so hoping she will be ok. The fact she went over to the food bowl has to be a good sign, in that she is still interested enough to go and have a look, even if she didn't eat. Hopefully by morning she will be a lot better, but still worth getting the vet to take a look I think. What a dreadful shock for you! x
 
Hey everyone, Jennifer seems to still be disorientated and is still keeping her head tightly tucked in toward her body.

I have however JUST seen her use her two front paws to wash her face :)

I'm going to try what boureki suggested about feeding her mushed up food,I'm going to try with some baby food as the added vitamin ect might give her an extra needed boost and maybe try to see if she'dd lick water off my fingers as I haven't seen her go to the water bottle :(

I called the vets, where the nurse had told the receptionist to give me straight to her and she said that they couldn't fit me in before tomorrow, but to keep on doing what I had been doing and that since she had made it through the night it was a good sign.

Gave her a kiss and cuddle and told her everyone on the forum was sending her their love and healing vibes =)

x
 
Thanks for the update, bless Jennifer's little piggie socks. Washing themselves is usually a fairly good sign, so hopefully she is at least, no worse. I can't believe your vet still can't get you in, what a shame :( Good luck with the babyfood, hopefully she will take to it.

If you think she is in pain, do you have one of the painkillers that can be used, I think there was a sticky on pain relief somewhere where infant human meds can be used in an emergency, I'll try and find it for you if you can get anything. Failing that, perhaps your vet can sell you a syringe of Metacam and you just give her a drop from time to time?

Thanks to CCC4: http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=36634 part way down the page, infant Calpol, if you can't get Metacam :)
 
thanks for that link boureki :)
that thread is really good - I'll be going out and making up my guinea pig first aid box today


Oh also, Inara, Jennifers mother hasn't been ignoring her but had been cleaning her and snuggling with her which I'm also taking as a good sign :D and when I went to top up the hay, she wheeked like she usually does - she hasn't dived in it like normal but the interest and reaction to it was there :D
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Really sorry to hear about your piggie, hugs and healing vibes coming your way:)
On another note I dont think its all that great that your vet hasnt got you in yet for what is an emergency, I dont know about anyone elses vet butmine get me in that day for something like that!
I would think about changing vets.
 
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On another note I dont think its all that great that your vet hasnt got you in yet for what is an emergency, I dont know about anyone elses vet butmine get me in that day for something like that!
I would think about changing vets.
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I think that too - I always get in the same day at my vet - emergency or not.

Hope Jennifer continues to improve xx
 
I was thinking calpol but as she's so small was unsure what dose would be okay. I think it's 0.2ml is for a grown up pig isn't it? What would be suitable to give a baby?

I'm so pleased she's doing okay(ish) and hope she carries on getting better poor little thing.
 
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I was thinking calpol but as she's so small was unsure what dose would be okay. I think it's 0.2ml is for a grown up pig isn't it? What would be suitable to give a baby?
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Lisa, you are quite right, I completely forgot we were talking about a baby piggie :red Sorry Rawr, that was probably the wrong way to point you. I have no idea about dosage for very young baby pigs or even if it would be okay to give it :( Perhaps someone more medically minded would be able to advise soon enough.
 
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Lisa, you are quite right, I completely forgot we were talking about a baby piggie :red Sorry Rawr, that was probably the wrong way to point you. I have no idea about dosage for very young baby pigs or even if it would be okay to give it :( Perhaps someone more medically minded would be able to advise soon enough.
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I started another thread about the calpol issue http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=644552#post644552 hopefully someone who's had to give baby piggies pain relief before will see it and be able to help out :)
 
I always advocate the use of a pain-killer if there is any doubt about the presence or absence of pain. In twenty one years experience of keeping guinea pigs I have never seen a pig so young that may benefit from a pain killer. However pain itself can lead to shock with unfortunate consequences, therefore I would give her 0.05ml of Calpol.
NB the dose: it is NOT 0.5ml.
0.05ml is a quarter of the adult dose
Without going into the pharmacology this should be a safe dose and one that I would be prepared to give to give to a pig of my own.
 
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Glad little piggy is still ok, hope she starts eating soon.

I too would change vets if I was you, that is a disgusting service even if it is just one vet. I expect an appointment the same day if it is an emergency.

Joy xx
 
I always advocate the use of a pain-killer if there is any doubt about the presence or absence of pain. In twenty one years experience of keeping guinea pigs I have never seen a pig so young that may benefit from a pain killer. However pain itself can lead to shock with unfortunate consequences, therefore I would give her 0.05ml of Calpol.
NB the dose: it is NOT 0.5ml.
0.05ml is a quarter of the adult dose
Without going into the pharmacology this should be a safe dose and one that I would be prepared to give to give to a pig of my own.
 
I've been looking into other vets today and seeing which ones would be easily accsable to me; with me not being able to drive and my current vet being at the end of my road it was convenient but I too am shocked that there's only one vet when it seems to be such a popular surgery.

I thought that they would at least have had a vet on standby in case of emergencies when the main one was in surgery like yesterday....
 
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Rawr said:
I've been looking into other vets today and seeing which ones would be easily accsable to me; with me not being able to drive and my current vet being at the end of my road it was convenient but I too am shocked that there's only one vet when it seems to be such a popular surgery.

I thought that they would at least have had a vet on standby in case of emergencies when the main one was in surgery like yesterday....
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You would have thought so.My surgery have 2 vets. One is there from 8.30 until 6 and the other is there between 10 and 4 as there are 2 practices.
 
FANTASTIC NEWS

I got a syringe and measured out the 0.05ml of the calpol and got Jennifer. I was pretty ready for a fight but instead she started licking at the syringe then chomped down on it :o
I slowly started to push down the top of the syringe thinking she'd instantly let go but didn't and took it no problem..it was more of a struggle getting her off the syringe!

I popped her back in her cage and watched her go over the water bottles, but she didn't start to drink..I filled a 2ml syringe with water and had the same reaction as I did with the calpol :<> She lost interst after 1ml and started wheeking and turning away when I tried to see if she would take anymore, but she still got some fluid into her, and I was thinking of repeating this process maybe every hour (please tell me if you think this is too often or too little) until I see her drinking from the bottle.

After seeing her drink this way I held a guinea nugget to her face and she instantly ate it all, I gave her a second one and she ate half before dropping it and refusing to take anymore, she wouldn't take any veg or timothy hay in this way...

I'm thinking if she's reacting this well to the syringe then the baby food way might be for the best until she is eating a substancial amount of normal food

I'm feeling a lot more positive and even though she still seems a little bit disorinated and still isn't walking quite right I'm over the moon with her current progress
x
 
awww, that is wonderful news! i'm glad she took her meds and some water from you...thats great. And that she had some nuggets....i hope she gets better and better very soon!
 
1ml of water every hour seems quite a big amount, I would give 0.25ml, for no other reason than it seems about right! However, if you are syringing food every hour I would give her as much as she will take.
 
Me too! Keep it up. I hope she carries on this way.

So far so good.
 
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