Sarahsazzle
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi I posts in the behaviour section initially but now I have an illness. So I had 2 guinea pigs and one died before Christmas so after a month or so I thought ginger biscuit was lonely and recommended advice is not to keep guinea pig on their own. Ginger came from a rescue when she was younger and never had any issues with her, now 3 and a half, she lives in an indoor cage with run of the spare room under supervision, good diet if veggies that are recommended on the guinealynx website and timothyhay and I give her burgess excel guinea pig nuggets.
So I decided best thing was to go back to the guinea pig rescue to get a similar aged guinea pig. So there was some general disagreements when they where introduced but nothing bad, and I realise now I probably didn't introduce them to each other correctly as I put them into the same cage together. But what's done is done, they are now separated because coconut the New Guinea pig after 2 days here developed an eye infection which I though ginger may have been making worse rubbing her face. Took her to vet and yes eye infection conjunctivitis given some fusivet eye drops. In addition on 2nd day noticed coconuts poos not quiet right but she seems a fussy pig compared to my pig who eats what she given! And coconut won't eat the nuggets so found out from the rescue they use muesli not keen on this but felt if she ate was better than nothing but she doesn't seem much bothered by the muesli either, but will eat green veggies and hay such as rocket spinach romain lettuce. Though the strange poos might be something's I do with change in diet stress etc, I did mention this to the vet who felt the same and it would settle. Also I trialled 24 hours without veggies, some better poos but not normal.
Anyway so she will have had a week eye drops tomorrow and the eye infection does not seem better also now my original pig ginger now has a sore eye even though they have been separated since the onset of symptoms. The New Guinea now also has new symptoms of what I would say is a cold snotty nose and grumbling when breathing sometimes, poos not really better, not drinking much and eating fresh veggies and hay not dry food.
I have read a bit about upper respiratory infection my concerns are about the treatment, I'm taking them to the vets again at 16.00 today, and how they will react to it will it make it all worse? Has my other piggy got it too as she now has the sore eye?
I have tried to contact the sanctuary to warn them but the owner doesn't seem to bothered. The pigs there are all ok she says,I am a bit upset I adopted a pig as thought this really was the right thing to do rather than go to a store and I've ended up with a very sick pig and costly bills and now my original pig is sick. They sanctuary seemed good and this might be a one off but I am aware the girls are kept in large numbers at the sanctuary. My vet also suggested that sometimes when they are kept in large numbers pack behaviour they are more resistant to bug then when she got to me the eye infection started.
Sorry it's a long thread I just want to do the right thing and after sadly loosing a piggy before Christmas was pretty upset now I'm worried this will happen all over again but with 2 pigs.
So I decided best thing was to go back to the guinea pig rescue to get a similar aged guinea pig. So there was some general disagreements when they where introduced but nothing bad, and I realise now I probably didn't introduce them to each other correctly as I put them into the same cage together. But what's done is done, they are now separated because coconut the New Guinea pig after 2 days here developed an eye infection which I though ginger may have been making worse rubbing her face. Took her to vet and yes eye infection conjunctivitis given some fusivet eye drops. In addition on 2nd day noticed coconuts poos not quiet right but she seems a fussy pig compared to my pig who eats what she given! And coconut won't eat the nuggets so found out from the rescue they use muesli not keen on this but felt if she ate was better than nothing but she doesn't seem much bothered by the muesli either, but will eat green veggies and hay such as rocket spinach romain lettuce. Though the strange poos might be something's I do with change in diet stress etc, I did mention this to the vet who felt the same and it would settle. Also I trialled 24 hours without veggies, some better poos but not normal.
Anyway so she will have had a week eye drops tomorrow and the eye infection does not seem better also now my original pig ginger now has a sore eye even though they have been separated since the onset of symptoms. The New Guinea now also has new symptoms of what I would say is a cold snotty nose and grumbling when breathing sometimes, poos not really better, not drinking much and eating fresh veggies and hay not dry food.
I have read a bit about upper respiratory infection my concerns are about the treatment, I'm taking them to the vets again at 16.00 today, and how they will react to it will it make it all worse? Has my other piggy got it too as she now has the sore eye?
I have tried to contact the sanctuary to warn them but the owner doesn't seem to bothered. The pigs there are all ok she says,I am a bit upset I adopted a pig as thought this really was the right thing to do rather than go to a store and I've ended up with a very sick pig and costly bills and now my original pig is sick. They sanctuary seemed good and this might be a one off but I am aware the girls are kept in large numbers at the sanctuary. My vet also suggested that sometimes when they are kept in large numbers pack behaviour they are more resistant to bug then when she got to me the eye infection started.
Sorry it's a long thread I just want to do the right thing and after sadly loosing a piggy before Christmas was pretty upset now I'm worried this will happen all over again but with 2 pigs.
