Kate T
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We lost our sweet 2 year old male guinea pig on Wednesday evening. 
He had been diagnosed & began medication/ critical care food for a URI a few days prior and during the same appointment the vet discovered a mass in his stomach. 
We were meant to have gone back in 2 weeks to make a decision about the mass and whether we wanted it X rayed but unfortunately on Wednesday evening despite perking up during the day, he fell on his side and kept scrambling to get up. My mum held him and we called the vet and rushed him in. He was put on oxygen for a short time before the vet could see him. We were called in and told the kindest option would be to put our boy to sleep and the vet indicated he thinks Chestnut had in fact had cancer. I held him and spoke to him for a short while before he was taken to be put to sleep, he was breathing with his mouth open as if gasping for breath which we since looked up and saw to likely have been agonal breathing as by this point the vet informed us his eyes had become rather unresponsive. It was a very tragic and traumatic experience. We are absolutely devastated and I miss him terribly, things are so awful without him around. We are giving our other guinea pig Hazel lots of cuddles each day and he is coping well so far. I am just so lost without Chestnut around and feel like he was taken from us way too soon. Life can be so unfair
sorry for the long post I just don’t know where else to turn to get this all off of my chest. we feel so lucky to have such lovely memories with Chestnut, he had the kindest sweetest nature and he just loved cuddling us sooo much and snuggling into our neck. I miss him climbing up his cage to see me and watching him eat his favourite fruit and veg. He also had the cutest lips ever! Thanks for reading
He had been diagnosed & began medication/ critical care food for a URI a few days prior and during the same appointment the vet discovered a mass in his stomach. We were meant to have gone back in 2 weeks to make a decision about the mass and whether we wanted it X rayed but unfortunately on Wednesday evening despite perking up during the day, he fell on his side and kept scrambling to get up. My mum held him and we called the vet and rushed him in. He was put on oxygen for a short time before the vet could see him. We were called in and told the kindest option would be to put our boy to sleep and the vet indicated he thinks Chestnut had in fact had cancer. I held him and spoke to him for a short while before he was taken to be put to sleep, he was breathing with his mouth open as if gasping for breath which we since looked up and saw to likely have been agonal breathing as by this point the vet informed us his eyes had become rather unresponsive. It was a very tragic and traumatic experience. We are absolutely devastated and I miss him terribly, things are so awful without him around. We are giving our other guinea pig Hazel lots of cuddles each day and he is coping well so far. I am just so lost without Chestnut around and feel like he was taken from us way too soon. Life can be so unfair sorry for the long post I just don’t know where else to turn to get this all off of my chest. we feel so lucky to have such lovely memories with Chestnut, he had the kindest sweetest nature and he just loved cuddling us sooo much and snuggling into our neck. I miss him climbing up his cage to see me and watching him eat his favourite fruit and veg. He also had the cutest lips ever! Thanks for reading
It is a very hard time but he was so loved and spoilt, I’m glad he had a nice life with us. Just so sad we couldn’t do anything more to save him 
thank you again it means a lot x
it is so hard losing him and not having him around anymore. I miss him terribly. I am very pleased he had a nice life with us and felt all the love in the world. I am also glad to be a part of this lovely, caring forum. It really is helpful at this hard time. Thank you again
