Julesie
Senior Guinea Pig
This morning I was told that Mumen (my neutered boar) was not quite right and he seemed a little unstable on his feet.
I went to check on him (I'm also ill with a very heavy cold) to find the girls rushing to me for their food as usual but Mumen walked away and into the corner. He then bit on the bar and held on with his teeth. He stumbled a little and almost fell over.
I immediately phoned my nearest vet whose not cavy savy but the only one I could get him to and he checked him over. He suspected somehow Mumen has hurt his lower body somehow as he would cry if touched there and his legs kept seperating. He called a more cavy savy vet. He gave Mumen some pain relief in the form of an injection and I've been feeding him critical care as often as possible.
During this time he seemed very dull eyed and was mostly flopped, seemingly lifeless. After the vet he was the same until roughly half an hour before the 4.15 appointment when he seemed livelier, even running away from me when I went to give him CC which he hadn't ran previously.
So I took him to the cavy savy vet, she took an xray and it turns out he has a problem with the bones just under where his ribcage turns into the single spine. Roughly 2 of the discs. We have no idea how its happened as there's nothing but flat surface in the cage.
Anyway, since then I've bought him home with instruction to give him more painkiller at 11pm as he got his first lot at 11am. At 5pm feeding he had a slice of cucumber and a piece of lettuce which I was happy about as other than the Critical care he hadn't eaten anything today.
I just went to check on him again and this time he's back to being lethargic. I took him out for more critical care and he's back to chewing randomly on anything that isn't edible. He was doing it a few times earlier, eating paper, random bars (he's never chewed them before), fleece or my robe. He then bit me. He doesn't seem to be purposely biting things to eat or for any reason that I can see, other than just to do it?
He's just not acting how he normally does. He's a laid back piggie who just potters around happily, content to be bossed around by his ladies or wooing them.
I'm really confused on whats wrong. Is it all to do with his spine pain? Or is there something else also? Would the pain relief cause him to act so weirdly? Could the chewing be a tooth problem? He almost seems in his own little world.
The girls aren't really bothered by him at all.
I really don't know what to do.
I went to check on him (I'm also ill with a very heavy cold) to find the girls rushing to me for their food as usual but Mumen walked away and into the corner. He then bit on the bar and held on with his teeth. He stumbled a little and almost fell over.
I immediately phoned my nearest vet whose not cavy savy but the only one I could get him to and he checked him over. He suspected somehow Mumen has hurt his lower body somehow as he would cry if touched there and his legs kept seperating. He called a more cavy savy vet. He gave Mumen some pain relief in the form of an injection and I've been feeding him critical care as often as possible.
During this time he seemed very dull eyed and was mostly flopped, seemingly lifeless. After the vet he was the same until roughly half an hour before the 4.15 appointment when he seemed livelier, even running away from me when I went to give him CC which he hadn't ran previously.
So I took him to the cavy savy vet, she took an xray and it turns out he has a problem with the bones just under where his ribcage turns into the single spine. Roughly 2 of the discs. We have no idea how its happened as there's nothing but flat surface in the cage.
Anyway, since then I've bought him home with instruction to give him more painkiller at 11pm as he got his first lot at 11am. At 5pm feeding he had a slice of cucumber and a piece of lettuce which I was happy about as other than the Critical care he hadn't eaten anything today.
I just went to check on him again and this time he's back to being lethargic. I took him out for more critical care and he's back to chewing randomly on anything that isn't edible. He was doing it a few times earlier, eating paper, random bars (he's never chewed them before), fleece or my robe. He then bit me. He doesn't seem to be purposely biting things to eat or for any reason that I can see, other than just to do it?
He's just not acting how he normally does. He's a laid back piggie who just potters around happily, content to be bossed around by his ladies or wooing them.
I'm really confused on whats wrong. Is it all to do with his spine pain? Or is there something else also? Would the pain relief cause him to act so weirdly? Could the chewing be a tooth problem? He almost seems in his own little world.
The girls aren't really bothered by him at all.
I really don't know what to do.
hopefully you will find a technique for him