Skebudupobuuyada
New Born Pup
So for context I have a female guinea pig who is about 6.5 years old and 1.5 years ago she had exhibited severe signs of a URI and so I had to take her to get emergency care where she was hospitalized for a day and I took her home where she eventually fully recovered. Since then she's had a couple flare ups but it wasn't to the point where I had to hospitalize her, I would usually just get meds and she would fully recover, albeit not always linearly but eventually she would fully recover.
As of like 3 days ago, my parents noticed she was lethargic, not eating, and was clearly struggling to breathe because of her body movements and the noises she made as she breathed. Since I am an out of state college student, I am unsure if these symptoms truly started all of a sudden especially since in the past she would usually show symptoms before they got this severe. So I told my parents to bring her to the emergency exotics vet where she was hospitalized for a day, she was put in an oxygen chamber and her breathing improved. Additionally she also started eating a little, and pooping a little. Due to budget constraints (already spent around $1300, it would be another $500+ for another day of hospitalization), I decided to have my parents bring her home. The last time the vets weighed her, she weighed 970 grams, which was a 10 gram increase from the 960 grams she was when she was first brought in to the vets.
Over the last two days, I've had my parents separate her from her sister cage mate (who is healthy) so that we can closely monitor her eating/drinking and poops. She hasn't been eating hay like at all even when she was provided a pile of it (both timothy & softer orchard grass hay). But she still eats some veggies (very slowly), and occasionally drinks water but only if the bottle is put directly in front of her face because she isn't really moving much from her hidey house except for when she is physically bothered by my parents. She is being provided 40 ml of critical care everyday (20 ml for the two times during the day that she is given antibiotics for the URI) and vitamin C. But my main concern is that she is not eating her hay and pellets. As of tonight I had my parents syringe feed her water, poop soup of her healthy cage mate, and 20 ml more critical care from the usual 40 ml she would get. But she just weighed in at ~905 grams. Furthermore she has been pooping but it is very small and dry looking as well as being few and far in between. But just recently we gave her corn husks as a possible replacement for hay and thankfully she actually liked it so she ate it just as much as she would eat her normal veggies.
She still has some issues breathing, but not nearly as severely as before which might partly explain her lack of appetite. But I have just been scouring the internet for possible causes and I'm thinking it might be a bloating issue so she's also been receiving some massages and also hence why she got some poop soup. But I am wondering whether it might be something else and whether she should just keep eating corn husk as a replacement for hay right now and if there is anything else I could do to help her gain more of an appetite for hay and for food in general.
As of like 3 days ago, my parents noticed she was lethargic, not eating, and was clearly struggling to breathe because of her body movements and the noises she made as she breathed. Since I am an out of state college student, I am unsure if these symptoms truly started all of a sudden especially since in the past she would usually show symptoms before they got this severe. So I told my parents to bring her to the emergency exotics vet where she was hospitalized for a day, she was put in an oxygen chamber and her breathing improved. Additionally she also started eating a little, and pooping a little. Due to budget constraints (already spent around $1300, it would be another $500+ for another day of hospitalization), I decided to have my parents bring her home. The last time the vets weighed her, she weighed 970 grams, which was a 10 gram increase from the 960 grams she was when she was first brought in to the vets.
Over the last two days, I've had my parents separate her from her sister cage mate (who is healthy) so that we can closely monitor her eating/drinking and poops. She hasn't been eating hay like at all even when she was provided a pile of it (both timothy & softer orchard grass hay). But she still eats some veggies (very slowly), and occasionally drinks water but only if the bottle is put directly in front of her face because she isn't really moving much from her hidey house except for when she is physically bothered by my parents. She is being provided 40 ml of critical care everyday (20 ml for the two times during the day that she is given antibiotics for the URI) and vitamin C. But my main concern is that she is not eating her hay and pellets. As of tonight I had my parents syringe feed her water, poop soup of her healthy cage mate, and 20 ml more critical care from the usual 40 ml she would get. But she just weighed in at ~905 grams. Furthermore she has been pooping but it is very small and dry looking as well as being few and far in between. But just recently we gave her corn husks as a possible replacement for hay and thankfully she actually liked it so she ate it just as much as she would eat her normal veggies.
She still has some issues breathing, but not nearly as severely as before which might partly explain her lack of appetite. But I have just been scouring the internet for possible causes and I'm thinking it might be a bloating issue so she's also been receiving some massages and also hence why she got some poop soup. But I am wondering whether it might be something else and whether she should just keep eating corn husk as a replacement for hay right now and if there is anything else I could do to help her gain more of an appetite for hay and for food in general.
