BlueBird
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi there,
My guineas are approaching their senior years. So I'm conscious of the gradual onset of pensioners body but I don't know really want I'm looking for. I have noticed one of my pigs getting a bit slimmer perhaps...? (she's less bootilicious as she used to be if I can describe her as that). And another of my pigs seems to be getting a pointer spine (ie from behind she is starting to look more triangular than round these days).
Their weights seem normal to me (minus the holiday blip last month) and I do look back over several weeks to check. But I'd admit I don't graph them so I can't be certain they don't have a slow gradual decline.
When I'm feeling them I can feel ribs and spine. I can feel hips and knees but they aren't noticeable if I'm just running my hands over their coat as if to stroke them and I can't feel individual vertebrae.
Don't really know what I'm looking for when examining them manually in a health check for example (other than obvious things like lumps).
My guineas are approaching their senior years. So I'm conscious of the gradual onset of pensioners body but I don't know really want I'm looking for. I have noticed one of my pigs getting a bit slimmer perhaps...? (she's less bootilicious as she used to be if I can describe her as that). And another of my pigs seems to be getting a pointer spine (ie from behind she is starting to look more triangular than round these days).
Their weights seem normal to me (minus the holiday blip last month) and I do look back over several weeks to check. But I'd admit I don't graph them so I can't be certain they don't have a slow gradual decline.
When I'm feeling them I can feel ribs and spine. I can feel hips and knees but they aren't noticeable if I'm just running my hands over their coat as if to stroke them and I can't feel individual vertebrae.
Don't really know what I'm looking for when examining them manually in a health check for example (other than obvious things like lumps).
