My guinea pig tiberius is about 2 or 3 months old and ive have him about 2 weeks the only time I saw him pee was when he was covering up my other guinea pigs pee during floor. Should i be worried, he's been drinking and eating just fine. but i haven't found any evidence in his cage suggesting he's actually peed.
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Help Please - Is My Guinea Pig Peeing Enough?
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If your boy is eating and drinking just fine and his poos are looking healthy and normal, then he is peeing OK and is obviously getting enough fluid. So please don't worry! A guinea pig that has problems with peeing won't drink or eat and is a very ill piggy indeed!
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Thank you, i wasnt certain on how to do the title but i will remember next time, id just signed up today.If your boy is eating and drinking just fine and his poos are looking healthy and normal, then he is peeing OK and is obviously getting enough fluid. So please don't worry! A guinea pig that has problems with peeing won't drink or eat and is a very ill piggy indeed!
PS: We try our best to answer any threads in the health/illness as promptly as possible, so it is not necessary to ask for help as you will get it anyway, but you can help us a lot by putting the nature of your problem in the title, so our members can attend to the most serious issues and the ones in which they have the most experience first in their free time.
Is it normal for the poo to be small and sometimes hard? Hes a small guinea but i havent seen this before in any of the guinea pigs ive owned.
Younger piggies have got smaller poos. How hard they are depends on how long they have been around. Fresh poos shouldn't be very dry and hard.
If you are really worried, you can offer him water in a syringe, provided that you don't give him more than 1/4 -1/3 of a syringe at once (i.e. one mouthful) and ideally let him suck it up at his own speed. Only as much as as wants. He doesn't sound badly dehydrated, if at all.
Young guinea pigs learn how to drink water from their elders. The individual water intake can differ a lot, between guinea pigs, as well as influenced by indoors heating, air conditioning, heat etc., but if you have seen him drink, then he should be able to look after his own needs. Make sure that you have got more than one water bottle with boars.
I Do have multiple bottles, i have both my guinea pigs in seperate cages because i got them at seperate times and they arent getting along just yet but time will tell. Thank you for the information, i am going to ask my dad to let me take Septimius and Tiberius to the vet soon just to check them out.
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