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Guinea pig listless and not eating suddenly

Gemm24

Gemm24

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Hi

Please can you help.
My guinea pig (tiger) is only 1 and 1/2 years old and is usually very active.
She was fine last night and ate her treat (a couple of pea flakes) as normal and was begging for more as usual! But this morning she did not stir for her morning veggies. When I picked her up she did not wriggle as normal. After a lot of encouragement she ate a bit of coriander, spring green and a few pea flakes but refused to eat any peppers, cucumbers tomatoes carrots lettuce etc.
She has lost 30g since Saturday. I checked her over and there are no signs of any lumps bumps or cuts.

Please help me
Thanks
 
Hello. If I were you I would pop her along to the vets for a check up as guinea pigs can go downhill quickly and hide their illnesses very well. That way, you can nip any brewing illness in the bud before it becomes serious
 
Gemm said:
Hi

Please can you help.
My guinea pig (tiger) is only 1 and 1/2 years old and is usually very active.
She was fine last night and ate her treat (a couple of pea flakes) as normal and was begging for more as usual! But this morning she did not stir for her morning veggies. When I picked her up she did not wriggle as normal. After a lot of encouragement she ate a bit of coriander, spring green and a few pea flakes but refused to eat any peppers, cucumbers tomatoes carrots lettuce etc.
She has lost 30g since Saturday. I checked her over and there are no signs of any lumps bumps or cuts.

Please help me
Thanks
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Please see a vet ASAP as a life and death emergency!
List Of Life And Death Out-of-hours Emergencies
 
Gemm said:
Hi

Please can you help.
My guinea pig (tiger) is only 1 and 1/2 years old and is usually very active.
She was fine last night and ate her treat (a couple of pea flakes) as normal and was begging for more as usual! But this morning she did not stir for her morning veggies. When I picked her up she did not wriggle as normal. After a lot of encouragement she ate a bit of coriander, spring green and a few pea flakes but refused to eat any peppers, cucumbers tomatoes carrots lettuce etc.
She has lost 30g since Saturday. I checked her over and there are no signs of any lumps bumps or cuts.

Please help me
Thanks
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My Guinea pig is the same. Need to use kitchen scales. I paid £75 at the pets at home vet. I got antibiotics. Things to syringe into his mouth. I've to feed him too with a syringe. Few days past he is starting to eat but not his usual munching everything. Doing my head in.
 
Thank you for you quick replies. I have an appointment at the vets. I usually go to the pets at home vets but found an exotic specialist near me who is good. I have some syringe food ready for her.
I’m just so worried and -I feel I can’t do anything right. This year I have had one guinea pig that went through a dental and then had an abscess, one that had ovarian cysts and didn’t survive the operation and another who died from a URI.
 
Gemm said:
Thank you for you quick replies. I have an appointment at the vets. I usually go to the pets at home vets but found an exotic specialist near me who is good. I have some syringe food ready for her.
I’m just so worried and -I feel I can’t do anything right. This year I have had one guinea pig that went through a dental and then had an abscess, one that had ovarian cysts and didn’t survive the operation and another who died from a URI.
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NO more Guinea pigs for me. This is it
 
Gemm said:
Thank you for you quick replies. I have an appointment at the vets. I usually go to the pets at home vets but found an exotic specialist near me who is good. I have some syringe food ready for her.
I’m just so worried and -I feel I can’t do anything right. This year I have had one guinea pig that went through a dental and then had an abscess, one that had ovarian cysts and didn’t survive the operation and another who died from a URI.
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BIG HUGS!

Please step in with syringe feeding, but do not proceed if your piggy is too weak to swallow or is fighting it well in excess of its lethargy - in those cases it is no longer able to process food.

Acute heart failure, GI stasis etc. can all be in play without presenting with noticeable symptoms.

You struggle to cope when you are faced with a series of major medical problems and deaths in short succession. They come like London buses.
I had a bad year last year where I lost several younger piggies to blockages ranging from a large swelling at the back of the throat to the gut and the neurological loss of the ability to swallow - basically racing 3 piggies with very similar symptoms to the out-of-hours vets for pts in the space of 5 weeks (two of them only three days apart). That was hard to take, especially as I lost another piggy in the wake of an abscessed incisor extraction in the following month and had already had to take leave of a frail piggy to a sudden overnight heart attack in the month before. :(

It is not your fault at all and nothing you are doing wrong, just karma messing around with your cosmic luck balance! Unfortunately we are wired to think that everything is caused by us personally, even where it clearly isn't. :mal:
Emergencies out of the blue like the one you are currently dealing with can happen to anybody and at any age. Because piggies are such small animals (which we tend to forget), things can go downhill with terrifying speed.

You are doing all the right things!
 
I took Tiger to the vet this evening and the only thing they could find is that she has a bit of dry skin and was a bit itchy so it could possibly be mites. Her cage buddy Alvin is showing no signs of mites. This may be a silly question but can indoor guinea pigs get mites? Tiger has never been outside.
She is spending the night at the vet to be monitored, she is having more treatment and gut stimulant. I hope it is as simple as mites but knowing my luck recently it won’t be.
 
Gemm said:
I took Tiger to the vet this evening and the only thing they could find is that she has a bit of dry skin and was a bit itchy so it could possibly be mites. Her cage buddy Alvin is showing no signs of mites. This may be a silly question but can indoor guinea pigs get mites? Tiger has never been outside.
She is spending the night at the vet to be monitored, she is having more treatment and gut stimulant. I hope it is as simple as mites but knowing my luck recently it won’t be.
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I hope she gets better soon.
Yes indoor piggies can get mites. Thry can be brought in on hay.
 
Thanks for your replies. I just spoke to the vet and they said she is eating and doing really well and can come home tonight on medication I’m going to pick her up later 😀 i can’t wait to see her!
 
Gemm said:
I took Tiger to the vet this evening and the only thing they could find is that she has a bit of dry skin and was a bit itchy so it could possibly be mites. Her cage buddy Alvin is showing no signs of mites. This may be a silly question but can indoor guinea pigs get mites? Tiger has never been outside.
She is spending the night at the vet to be monitored, she is having more treatment and gut stimulant. I hope it is as simple as mites but knowing my luck recently it won’t be.
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I think bugs come off the hay. My Guinea pig had a tic on its neck I got it in time before it dug into his skin. A blood sucker
 
I have just brought her home and she was given an injection for mites and needs to go back next week for another one. She is on cisipride and metacam. She eating well and is much more herself.
Is it worth getting the anti parasite spot on treatment from now on to prevent mites?
 
Gemm said:
I have just brought her home and she was given an injection for mites and needs to go back next week for another one. She is on cisipride and metacam. She eating well and is much more herself.
Is it worth getting the anti parasite spot on treatment from now on to prevent mites?
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My Guinea pig has never had mites
 
Gemm said:
I have just brought her home and she was given an injection for mites and needs to go back next week for another one. She is on cisipride and metacam. She eating well and is much more herself.
Is it worth getting the anti parasite spot on treatment from now on to prevent mites?
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No spot on treatment is pretty useless. It is best to take them to the vets if you suspect mites, so they can diagnose & treat correctly.
 
Thank you for your reply. I have heard many people using xeno 450 on the forum. Do you think I should use this ?
 
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