Guinea Pig keeps moving her head like a nervous twitch

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hey guys
my Guinea Pig keeps moving her head like a nervous twitch it doesnt look like stroke( head stroke) or head damage because its only when we go to give her a stroke anywhere on her body that she does it, she doesnt mind us stroking her but its kind of like the movement that a dog makes when its wet to dry itself but obviously less quick and violent it looks peculiar and just wondered if you could help me with it. if you need a video id find a way to post 1 up to show you as i dont want it to be something thats jeperdising her health and none of my past guinea's have ever done it
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mark
 
is it when you stoke her head? because some guineas dont like their heads being touched so jerk their heads up when you touch it
 
you mean like when they nudge your hand out of the way? no its not like that its almost a side to side head head shake similar to if you nod your head for yes and shake it for no but at the same time :o but its when we go to stroke her anywhere =/ and its only on the initial stroke so she'l do it once and as long as i keep stroking shes fine and even makes the happy noises but if i stop for a minute and stroke again she does it again its wierd ive never seen anything like it
 
hmm, this is weird, i've never heard of this before :S if i were you i would get her checked out by a vet straight away.
 
ill be booking her in asap hope shes alright =( ill try and put a video up of her doing it to show what i mean as its hard to properly explain
 
Is she doing it all the time?.I know this might sound silly but is she popcorning..mine do the strangest of movements sometimes I wonder if they are ok :)
 
Are her ears clear? Do you think she could have waxy ears, fungal ears or an ear infection? Sounds ear related to me if she's shaking her head side to side like a dog.
 
i wouldnt say its pop corning because she's still when she does it, she can do it if she's moving and i stroke her when shes moving but its not a pop corn, she only seems to do it if anyone begins to stroke her, after that shes fine but if we stop then start again she does it again. I'm trying to find a place to upload the video to show you all what i mean, I'm still trying to get an appointment for my vet too. is there a way to upload the video up to the forum?
 
Upload it onto photobucket and then copy the code on here (IMG code)
 
The playing looks perfectly normal and good clean guinea pig fun. :(|)

I don't know about the twitching. It doesn't seem particularly concerning.
 
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