Hello. This thread is about my 2 year old Guinea Pig, Saski. She's always been a really healthy and explorative piggy with a lot of energy and love for food. She'd always make the loudest sounds when the fridge door would open or when she'd hear me wake up. Up to about 4 days ago, she was always exploring her cage, eating and interacting with her cage companion.
A few days ago though, I started noticing her getting more and more inactive. She wouldn't leave her hiding house and although she ate the veggies I gave them, she stopped making her regular excited noises when I'd approach the cage. Her poos also started getting inconsistent, some looking larger and others looking way too small and teardrop-looking.
Right now, she doesn't go outside of her house at all. She only eats lettuce and hay, and discards her pellets and other veggies. I haven't seen her drink water, and she doesn't even use the chew toys anymore. She's also started having really really soft diarrhea-like poos and she looks skinnier with her back bones showing. She hasn't made a single sound and my other guinea pig looks very sad about the situation as well.
Right now, I'd rush her to the vet, but all of them are closed until Tuesday. We haven't had a similar health problem apart from when she got bumble foot last year which we treated. Should I worry about her dying? Are there any home treatments I could try? Has this happened to anyone else before? Please inform me asap if you know a way to help me as I'm really worried!
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