Our 4 year old guinea pig Mabel stopped eating last week, it took us a day or two to notice something was wrong and we took her to the vets, she needed surgery and a few days later the vet removed her ovaries which had become enlarged.
We took her home and have been feeding her a sort of critical care paste that the vet gave us. its now been a week since we first took her to the vets and she's still not eating or drinking. We are trying to give her as much as possible, at the minute I'm trying to give her a few mls of food and water every two hours. However she's if anything gotten worse, she has no energy, her breathing is fast and rapid, and she makes a noise when breathing like she's in pain/ struggling to breath, it's kind of a wheezing noise.
We don't know what else to do, I feel like shes just slowly dying, we had her at the vets yesterday for a check up and she gave us more paste, painkillers, and anti-biotics. We have another check up tomorrow, but even if she makes it to then, I think the vet will prescribe more of the same.
Does anyone have any advice to what we should do? At the minute when I feed her, she can barely even swallow, she doesn't chew, I have to just squirt a small amount down, hope she swallows, wait, and try again.
Please any help will be really appreciated!
We took her home and have been feeding her a sort of critical care paste that the vet gave us. its now been a week since we first took her to the vets and she's still not eating or drinking. We are trying to give her as much as possible, at the minute I'm trying to give her a few mls of food and water every two hours. However she's if anything gotten worse, she has no energy, her breathing is fast and rapid, and she makes a noise when breathing like she's in pain/ struggling to breath, it's kind of a wheezing noise.
We don't know what else to do, I feel like shes just slowly dying, we had her at the vets yesterday for a check up and she gave us more paste, painkillers, and anti-biotics. We have another check up tomorrow, but even if she makes it to then, I think the vet will prescribe more of the same.
Does anyone have any advice to what we should do? At the minute when I feed her, she can barely even swallow, she doesn't chew, I have to just squirt a small amount down, hope she swallows, wait, and try again.
Please any help will be really appreciated!