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Junior Guinea Pig
Hi,
I have two new baby Guinea pigs (the lady i adopted them from said she believed they were 10-12 weeks old) that I’m currently going through the bonding process with to bond them with my recently bereaved older piggy. After today’s bonding session I had moved the babies temporary cage onto the bed so I could have them out on the floor bonding, and I stood up holding Bonnie one of the babies to put her back in the cage, and somehow she managed to freak out and squirm out of my grip and over my shoulder and jump onto the floor. I’m 5ft 10inches for height reference, but I did try to crouch down a bit when I realised what was happening. She jumped onto the floor and seemed fine, she’s cut her lip slightly but can walk around/run absolutely fine, but she seems to be making a strange noise, kinda like a chattering/chewing noise, it’s not a constant sound as she’s able to stop it when I pick her up etc - I’m not sure if it’s just because she’s shaken up because aside from that nothing seems wrong, but I’m panicking a bit and feeling so guilty. I’ve given her some food to see if she’ll eat, and I’m going to keep monitoring her, if my exotics vet was open out of hours I’d take her straight away to get checked out, but my local out of hours vets doesn’t have much experience with Guinea pigs, and I don’t think they’d do anything besides give her some loxicom or something. Does anyone have any similar experiences or advice? Obviously I know now not to stand up without holding her in something if I have to now, and I already feel so guilty about it
I have two new baby Guinea pigs (the lady i adopted them from said she believed they were 10-12 weeks old) that I’m currently going through the bonding process with to bond them with my recently bereaved older piggy. After today’s bonding session I had moved the babies temporary cage onto the bed so I could have them out on the floor bonding, and I stood up holding Bonnie one of the babies to put her back in the cage, and somehow she managed to freak out and squirm out of my grip and over my shoulder and jump onto the floor. I’m 5ft 10inches for height reference, but I did try to crouch down a bit when I realised what was happening. She jumped onto the floor and seemed fine, she’s cut her lip slightly but can walk around/run absolutely fine, but she seems to be making a strange noise, kinda like a chattering/chewing noise, it’s not a constant sound as she’s able to stop it when I pick her up etc - I’m not sure if it’s just because she’s shaken up because aside from that nothing seems wrong, but I’m panicking a bit and feeling so guilty. I’ve given her some food to see if she’ll eat, and I’m going to keep monitoring her, if my exotics vet was open out of hours I’d take her straight away to get checked out, but my local out of hours vets doesn’t have much experience with Guinea pigs, and I don’t think they’d do anything besides give her some loxicom or something. Does anyone have any similar experiences or advice? Obviously I know now not to stand up without holding her in something if I have to now, and I already feel so guilty about it