Chopsticus
Junior Guinea Pig
I have read and understood the legal notice. I am just looking for inputs from anyone who have experience with these symptoms for ideas.
I lost 2 guinea pigs in 8 days. When I took them to the PDSA vets they just said mites and I needed to bath them more often. Bath them more often I did but they had other symptoms. Any input is welcome as to whether they are extended damage or mite infliction or something else. Or you can point me to rethink for other symptoms.
Ginny was overweight from sometime before but since I got my piggies correx floor to run around in she became quite lean. And then she lost some fur at the back and vet said it was mites. At this time Piggysus was not showing any signs of illness. Had the mites treated and she regained her fur. But later she started losing more fur and more weight. To the point the upper back (not all the spine, from hind legs and backwards) were bald and bony - you could see the bony bumps. By this point when I came back home with grass all the piggies run out for it, which was what Ginny would also normally have done but she did not. However, if I carried her out for grass (something she got quite used to) she would eat as much as she could, so I thought at least that part was fine. Later she lost so much weight her tailbone was sticking out almost an inch - if that gives you some idea how much of her bottom was missing, her pee-pee area was sticking out as well. As this point she was sometimes eating newpaper and her own pellets non-stop. And in the end she was having much more frequent diarrhea. Ginny had red eyes and a spot of white hair which mildly suggests the possibiity of the lethal gene.
Piggysus had a similar weight loss to a bony and almost bald upper back, and his pee-pee area was sticking out - although that had for sometime and not anywhere near a portuding tailbone. He was very continuously affected by mites and scratched himself silly making me and the vets think it was to do with the outside like the mites. He was even quite coorperative in baths and tiptoed to get his underside washed - and none of my guinea pigs had liked being turned over. In his last 2 or 3 days he suddenly started having very frequent diarrhea as well and that's what suddenly suggested to me they had some same internal problems. Recently he favored sweetcorns over everything else. Sometimes it was the only thing he wanted to eat in 12 hours. I bathed him every other day like the vet said and sometimes he looked better sometimes worst and then an hour ago he's cold - so he may have died a bit before that.
I still have 2 surviving guinea pigs who are, in fact, Piggysus's sisters. Ginny is not related. Dotty is perfectly healthy (except maybe getting a little too chubby), no mites, no nothing, but Beanie is showing a lot of mite damage as well.
At least we know I should not get any more guinea pigs.
I lost 2 guinea pigs in 8 days. When I took them to the PDSA vets they just said mites and I needed to bath them more often. Bath them more often I did but they had other symptoms. Any input is welcome as to whether they are extended damage or mite infliction or something else. Or you can point me to rethink for other symptoms.
Ginny was overweight from sometime before but since I got my piggies correx floor to run around in she became quite lean. And then she lost some fur at the back and vet said it was mites. At this time Piggysus was not showing any signs of illness. Had the mites treated and she regained her fur. But later she started losing more fur and more weight. To the point the upper back (not all the spine, from hind legs and backwards) were bald and bony - you could see the bony bumps. By this point when I came back home with grass all the piggies run out for it, which was what Ginny would also normally have done but she did not. However, if I carried her out for grass (something she got quite used to) she would eat as much as she could, so I thought at least that part was fine. Later she lost so much weight her tailbone was sticking out almost an inch - if that gives you some idea how much of her bottom was missing, her pee-pee area was sticking out as well. As this point she was sometimes eating newpaper and her own pellets non-stop. And in the end she was having much more frequent diarrhea. Ginny had red eyes and a spot of white hair which mildly suggests the possibiity of the lethal gene.
Piggysus had a similar weight loss to a bony and almost bald upper back, and his pee-pee area was sticking out - although that had for sometime and not anywhere near a portuding tailbone. He was very continuously affected by mites and scratched himself silly making me and the vets think it was to do with the outside like the mites. He was even quite coorperative in baths and tiptoed to get his underside washed - and none of my guinea pigs had liked being turned over. In his last 2 or 3 days he suddenly started having very frequent diarrhea as well and that's what suddenly suggested to me they had some same internal problems. Recently he favored sweetcorns over everything else. Sometimes it was the only thing he wanted to eat in 12 hours. I bathed him every other day like the vet said and sometimes he looked better sometimes worst and then an hour ago he's cold - so he may have died a bit before that.
I still have 2 surviving guinea pigs who are, in fact, Piggysus's sisters. Ginny is not related. Dotty is perfectly healthy (except maybe getting a little too chubby), no mites, no nothing, but Beanie is showing a lot of mite damage as well.
At least we know I should not get any more guinea pigs.
