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Pink pee

Sara’s Piggies

Sara’s Piggies

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So when I was cleaning Wilma and Quinn’s cage tonight I just happen to see Quinn pee on the liner. It was light pink. I know this is a sign of a bladder infection or bladder stones. She has no other symptoms and is eating and drinking fine. I’m very lucky I just happened to notice her pee before it soaked into the liner.
The vet is not open Monday as it’s a holiday in the United States. The soonest she could see her vet is Tuesday. Otherwise I could take her to the emergency vet tomorrow (Monday). My question is how urgent is this? Like can it wait until Tuesday so she can see her vet or is it worth the emergency vet? I don’t have a problem taking her it’s just that the emergency vet doesn’t always have someone super experienced with guineapigs. I would only want to take her there if it was really an emergency. I’ve never had a piggie with a uti or stones before so I don’t know how urgent it is.
 
As long as she is passing urine, eating and drinking and lively it could wait till Tuesday. If your piggy becomes lethargic, can't pass urine then it becomes an emergency

Please let us know how she gets on
 
Thanks. Yes,of course I would take her to the vet if anything changes. She’s doing great now. I’m just lucky I saw her pee otherwise I wouldn’t have known. None of the bedding or liners are stained pinkish.
 
Well spotted!
 
So we were only able to see light pink pee one time. We had her pee on white paper towel a few times to see if we could see it again but saw nothing. We still took her to the vet to be safe. The vet did an X-ray to rule out stones. Everything looked normal and Wilma is doing fine. Since she has no symptoms currently and we only saw the pink pee once the vet thinks it’s possible it’s something she ate that gave her pee a pink like color. She said to monitor her and if we notice it again or anything changes to give her a call.
 
I had a similar situation. I have two females. Looked like blood on the pee pad, but they checked out fine. I haven't figured out what caused it, but I bought urine test strips to put my mind at ease. I think something causes a pinkish oxidation sometimes. Hoping everything is ok for you!
 
Mine eat a variety of veg and at every clean out there is brown pink wee patches this is very commen in pee pads where the urine oxidising I was as well worried until late we got full bills of health at the vets . I'm pretty shore it's from the carrot and bell peppers and all the other bits that get :)
 
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