Dusty_bugs
Teenage Guinea Pig
Hi guys,
just a quick question. My vet noticed a few weeks ago that our girl (since her mouth ops) has had hair trapped in her lower incisors. Not the odd strand, but thin clumps. He shows me how to firmly grab her head, lower her lip and wipe a cotton bud along the teeth. He also finds some food under her tongue sometimes. The hair comes out and she comes for a cuddle.
When I get her home to try I SWEAR the hair does not budge with a cotton bud! I have to pull it out with my fingers if the hair sticks at the right angle and I risk a bite from a VERY non bitey girl. How on earth is my vet pushing the hair out? Why when I do it does the hair just wipe up the teeth and stay stuck under the lip? We spend so long at it she gets infuriated and tried to bite!
The last time my vet tried he accidentally made her mouth bleed by pulling the lip too far down and said, dont you pull down that far. Well I wont, but I just cant get the hair to loosen up and she wriggles her head everywhich way at home. At the vet she is frozen still so he thinks it should be easy for me.
Ive read elsewhere that the hair just comes out when they eat and its a normal result of grooming.. but my vet is hypothesising that a trapped hair may have caused the problems in her mouth in the first place now and has me frightened that if I don't/cant clean her gums she will get it again.
Has anyone else experienced this? I can't afford £25 consultation fees every 2 weeks to clean her teeth of hair just because I can't sort it out myself.
just a quick question. My vet noticed a few weeks ago that our girl (since her mouth ops) has had hair trapped in her lower incisors. Not the odd strand, but thin clumps. He shows me how to firmly grab her head, lower her lip and wipe a cotton bud along the teeth. He also finds some food under her tongue sometimes. The hair comes out and she comes for a cuddle.
When I get her home to try I SWEAR the hair does not budge with a cotton bud! I have to pull it out with my fingers if the hair sticks at the right angle and I risk a bite from a VERY non bitey girl. How on earth is my vet pushing the hair out? Why when I do it does the hair just wipe up the teeth and stay stuck under the lip? We spend so long at it she gets infuriated and tried to bite!
The last time my vet tried he accidentally made her mouth bleed by pulling the lip too far down and said, dont you pull down that far. Well I wont, but I just cant get the hair to loosen up and she wriggles her head everywhich way at home. At the vet she is frozen still so he thinks it should be easy for me.
Ive read elsewhere that the hair just comes out when they eat and its a normal result of grooming.. but my vet is hypothesising that a trapped hair may have caused the problems in her mouth in the first place now and has me frightened that if I don't/cant clean her gums she will get it again.
Has anyone else experienced this? I can't afford £25 consultation fees every 2 weeks to clean her teeth of hair just because I can't sort it out myself.
