Lilly
Adult Guinea Pig
With Peanut Butter's 4 month long illness I've become obsessed with his "output". At his lowest weight loss the poops were small, hard & not numerous so it was a real worry. PB finished all his meds at the weekend and went in for a follow-up checkup and to test his poop for yeast.
It was 45 minutes from the time I put him in his carrier to the time I opened the lid at the vets to discover 14 gorgeous perfect poopies! I was thrilled and proud. The vet ooooh'd and aaaah'd, chose one plump specimen, smeared it on a slide and went away to look in her microscope. She came back with a big smile and pronounced it free of anything except what one expects to see in piggy poop under a microscope.
I think PB's ordeal is finally over, although he still needs to finish the week of pro-biotics and I am going to keep him on vegetarian glucosamine for life.
It was 45 minutes from the time I put him in his carrier to the time I opened the lid at the vets to discover 14 gorgeous perfect poopies! I was thrilled and proud. The vet ooooh'd and aaaah'd, chose one plump specimen, smeared it on a slide and went away to look in her microscope. She came back with a big smile and pronounced it free of anything except what one expects to see in piggy poop under a microscope.
I think PB's ordeal is finally over, although he still needs to finish the week of pro-biotics and I am going to keep him on vegetarian glucosamine for life.