Cavvyluver
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Help - potential ringworm
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Hi!
Please have them vet checked for ringworm, a highly contagious form of fungal skin infection that can also transmit to humans and other pets. You can reclaim vet and treatment cost from your pet shop as exposure must have happened at the shop as part of your customer rights for having been sold faulty ware.
Please be aware that we cannot replace a vet diagnosis, nor are we qualified to. We also advise strongly against DIY home treatment and you can make things easily a lot worse rather than better and end up spending a lot more.
Here is more information on your customer rights: New guinea pigs: Sexing, vet checks&customer rights, URI, ringworm and parasites
Thorough hygiene is absolutely crucial in getting on top of ringworm. This guide also contains comparison pictures that illustrate how an acute outbreak generally takes its due course. Please take the time to read it. You should find it very helpful: Ringworm: Hygiene And Pictures
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