boureki
Senior Guinea Pig
Pepe hasn’t been eating properly since he’s had antibiotic treatment for bacteria found a few weeks ago. Since then, he seems to be looking somewhat scruffy, which suggests to me he has reduced his grooming.
As suggested by CCT we have given him treatments of Carprofen (5mg) for 2 days, (last Fri and Sat) for any gut pain that may be stopping him eating, along with Critical Care and a pro-biotic called Vetrumex (which took hours to track down!) He has since gained a bit of weight and seems to be drinking loads, so we eased him off the Critical Care and stopped the painkillers as advised when his appetite picked up). His weight is hardly soaring but he’s more stabilised. In desperation, we gave him some Tesco Museli (he’s been on Cavy Cuisine and Wagg Crunch) and he dived into this. He seems to be eating again by himself and now eats his wet food which he was never that fussed on before. Can they get bored of their same old food perhaps?
The things that are worrying me now are his lack of grooming as I read somewhere this can be a sign of something but I can’t remember what!), and secondly I noticed that the bit of vetbed under his water bottle seems to be gungy and green like chewed up food has been dribbled, but it is only present directly under the bottle. This has happened in the last day. Pepe has a weird way of pushing the whole water bottle spout in his mouth when he drinks, so frequently the water looks like it has backwash in it, so needs to be changed much more frequently than normal, but it’s almost like he’s been dribbling after he drinks with food particles in his mouth. Either that or he’s been chewing the vetbed. He had a thorough examination in Cambridge two weeks ago, and no tooth problems were reported. But the gunk appearing under the water bottle has really worried me.
I think I will probably end up taking him back up to Cambridge as I’m constantly worrying about him, but wondered if anyone had any experience of the above?
Thanks
As suggested by CCT we have given him treatments of Carprofen (5mg) for 2 days, (last Fri and Sat) for any gut pain that may be stopping him eating, along with Critical Care and a pro-biotic called Vetrumex (which took hours to track down!) He has since gained a bit of weight and seems to be drinking loads, so we eased him off the Critical Care and stopped the painkillers as advised when his appetite picked up). His weight is hardly soaring but he’s more stabilised. In desperation, we gave him some Tesco Museli (he’s been on Cavy Cuisine and Wagg Crunch) and he dived into this. He seems to be eating again by himself and now eats his wet food which he was never that fussed on before. Can they get bored of their same old food perhaps?
The things that are worrying me now are his lack of grooming as I read somewhere this can be a sign of something but I can’t remember what!), and secondly I noticed that the bit of vetbed under his water bottle seems to be gungy and green like chewed up food has been dribbled, but it is only present directly under the bottle. This has happened in the last day. Pepe has a weird way of pushing the whole water bottle spout in his mouth when he drinks, so frequently the water looks like it has backwash in it, so needs to be changed much more frequently than normal, but it’s almost like he’s been dribbling after he drinks with food particles in his mouth. Either that or he’s been chewing the vetbed. He had a thorough examination in Cambridge two weeks ago, and no tooth problems were reported. But the gunk appearing under the water bottle has really worried me.
I think I will probably end up taking him back up to Cambridge as I’m constantly worrying about him, but wondered if anyone had any experience of the above?
Thanks
still having problems that's not fair :'( >
