caitlynn
Junior Guinea Pig
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- Dec 20, 2013
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So my 1 year old guinea pig, Piper was absolutely fine yesterday. This morning though, I heard sort of a crackling noise from her when she breathes. I was extremely worried and immediately separated my pigs and cleaned their cage. It's been nearly 12 hours since then and Piper is still making that crackling noise on occasion when she breathes, but shows no other symptoms of a URI. No snot, eyes are fine, she's running around and playing, eating, drinking, pooping, peeing. I've only heard her sneeze twice and that was just because she poked her nose with hay. For a while the crackling stopped altogether. It had been about 2 or 3 hours and she was breathing just fine so I thought I was overreacting and put her back in her cage. I checked on her about an hour ago and the crackling had returned. I have her out of the cage with me in my room in the meantime. I'm feeding her plenty of vegetables and vitamin C. She still wheeks for food and gets all excited and popcorns for it. I'm sure it's not an allergy to the bedding or anything like that because it's the same exact bedding I've been using forever. She's not showing any signs of getting worse. Right now she's under the blanket and breathing fine again. I'm definitely going to get her to the vet tomorrow morning. Does this sound like a possible URI or something less scary? Is there anything I can do while waiting to get her to the vet?