Tbag
Adult Guinea Pig
Ok, I'm just searching for any ideas, or for anyone who has had anything similar as Mr T's bottom is really becoming a bit of a puzzle to me.
Bit of a backstory (hope its not too boring/lengthy!):
A while ago now I posted about little Tango making some pained squeaking when he was doing number 2s - poos all normal, no trouble whatsoever with weeing, perfectly healthy and lively otherwise.
We saw a local vet (who knows piggies well enough for general visits) and got the all clear, by the time we'd saw the vet he'd stopped his squeaking as well so we figured must have just been a blip/something he ate.
Then a week or so later it started again. It wasn't happening all the time, just every now and again when he'd try to go, and sometimes it'd stop again for a few days. Had a visit from the lovely Pebble who helped do some urine dip sticks, on which the only abnormality was a high protein level.
After that we went to see Ann at Ewell for a second vetrinary opinion. She couldn't detect anything obviously wrong either and was very pleased with his overall health otherwise. Couldn't get a urine sample out of him unfortunately but she saw no reason to x-ray him then as he seemd in such good health otherwise. She suggested we cut down on his nuggets and just up the hay intake to see if that combatted the high protein and would possibly help the situation.
Tried cutting the nuggets for two weeks as advised and still no change in the painful poo squeaks.
However, he was still completely fine otherwise, eating as only a pig can do, drinking, running etc.
He was scheduled for an x-ray with Ann next week but this morning we were having lap time and after three periods of squeaking and eventual pellet appearance, there was a tiny little spot of blood on the blanket (cue me going into headless chicken panic mode :...:o). He was also doing the squeaking pretty much all the time he tried to go, rather than intermittantly like before. Despite that he still seemed his normal chirpy, greedy self.
So we got an appt today (ta for the tip off about Ann being in Lindsey!) and had an x-ray done to check for bladder stones which showed nothing out of the ordinary! Still couldn't get any urine out of him whilst we were there so she couldn't run another check on that but she was thinking it could be a sort of urine infection thats just making the general area sore and causing him discomfort when poo-posturing. We've come away with a 10 day course of metacam and septrin to see how that goes.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a similar situation and what it ended up being? It just seems so strange that its only really when he's pooing and not weeing, and that everything else appears fine otherwise.
Are there any sort of gut related conditions piggies can get that would be causing this?
Sorry for all the rambling, just overthinking things I guess!
Bit of a backstory (hope its not too boring/lengthy!):
A while ago now I posted about little Tango making some pained squeaking when he was doing number 2s - poos all normal, no trouble whatsoever with weeing, perfectly healthy and lively otherwise.
We saw a local vet (who knows piggies well enough for general visits) and got the all clear, by the time we'd saw the vet he'd stopped his squeaking as well so we figured must have just been a blip/something he ate.
Then a week or so later it started again. It wasn't happening all the time, just every now and again when he'd try to go, and sometimes it'd stop again for a few days. Had a visit from the lovely Pebble who helped do some urine dip sticks, on which the only abnormality was a high protein level.
After that we went to see Ann at Ewell for a second vetrinary opinion. She couldn't detect anything obviously wrong either and was very pleased with his overall health otherwise. Couldn't get a urine sample out of him unfortunately but she saw no reason to x-ray him then as he seemd in such good health otherwise. She suggested we cut down on his nuggets and just up the hay intake to see if that combatted the high protein and would possibly help the situation.
Tried cutting the nuggets for two weeks as advised and still no change in the painful poo squeaks.
However, he was still completely fine otherwise, eating as only a pig can do, drinking, running etc. He was scheduled for an x-ray with Ann next week but this morning we were having lap time and after three periods of squeaking and eventual pellet appearance, there was a tiny little spot of blood on the blanket (cue me going into headless chicken panic mode :...:o). He was also doing the squeaking pretty much all the time he tried to go, rather than intermittantly like before. Despite that he still seemed his normal chirpy, greedy self.
So we got an appt today (ta for the tip off about Ann being in Lindsey!) and had an x-ray done to check for bladder stones which showed nothing out of the ordinary! Still couldn't get any urine out of him whilst we were there so she couldn't run another check on that but she was thinking it could be a sort of urine infection thats just making the general area sore and causing him discomfort when poo-posturing. We've come away with a 10 day course of metacam and septrin to see how that goes.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a similar situation and what it ended up being? It just seems so strange that its only really when he's pooing and not weeing, and that everything else appears fine otherwise.
Are there any sort of gut related conditions piggies can get that would be causing this?
Sorry for all the rambling, just overthinking things I guess!
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Haha, it definitely isn't funny at the time is it! I think I need to work on my syringe control as well haha -very sensitive bit of equipment that! We got a bit more down him today with Daddypig and I working 'tag-team' style but I don't think he's ever going to get used to it...