Angelah
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi everyone,
I joined a while back when we first got our Guinea pigs, but on Thursday we had to make the decision to put One of our piggies to sleep (Smudge), we had been keeping an eye on his weight and it had been going up and down , he was at 1250 grams and noticed that he felt lighter and just over a week ago he weighted 970 grams and the next day he went down to 930, but was still eating and was constantly begging for food and drinking lots of water, we took him to the vet were they thought it could be due to his teeth , but Smudge would not have any of it and we had to take him back the next day to had to have anaesthetic to look at his teeth and possible blood test, the filed his tooth a little bit they said it was not that bad to contribute to the weight loss, they never took blood as it would stress him out, we thought he may have been diabetic , so he came home with fiberplex , at the vet his weight dropped to 890 grams and we were warned that he may not waken from the anaesthetic but he did, for the week his weight increased and i was so happy as it had gone back upto 970 grams on Tuesday, then came home Wednesday and my husband said he did not eat much of his tea, i hand fed him and he had a little, in the Thursday morning he ate very little and looked as if he had enough,my husband came home early and tried to give him more food but he went to it and then lost interest and ate nothing , we phoned our vet and we took him in and they said he was very poorly, his weight dropped to 830, he was sleepy and could not sit properly, we made the heart wrenching decision to put him to sleep, all i have done all day is cry, i miss him so much, his brother is coping well and he is eating and playing , we are keeping a close eye on him and making lots of fuss off him,we have had 3 fantastic years with him and he gave us such joy,
RIP Smudge, our little Lad!
I joined a while back when we first got our Guinea pigs, but on Thursday we had to make the decision to put One of our piggies to sleep (Smudge), we had been keeping an eye on his weight and it had been going up and down , he was at 1250 grams and noticed that he felt lighter and just over a week ago he weighted 970 grams and the next day he went down to 930, but was still eating and was constantly begging for food and drinking lots of water, we took him to the vet were they thought it could be due to his teeth , but Smudge would not have any of it and we had to take him back the next day to had to have anaesthetic to look at his teeth and possible blood test, the filed his tooth a little bit they said it was not that bad to contribute to the weight loss, they never took blood as it would stress him out, we thought he may have been diabetic , so he came home with fiberplex , at the vet his weight dropped to 890 grams and we were warned that he may not waken from the anaesthetic but he did, for the week his weight increased and i was so happy as it had gone back upto 970 grams on Tuesday, then came home Wednesday and my husband said he did not eat much of his tea, i hand fed him and he had a little, in the Thursday morning he ate very little and looked as if he had enough,my husband came home early and tried to give him more food but he went to it and then lost interest and ate nothing , we phoned our vet and we took him in and they said he was very poorly, his weight dropped to 830, he was sleepy and could not sit properly, we made the heart wrenching decision to put him to sleep, all i have done all day is cry, i miss him so much, his brother is coping well and he is eating and playing , we are keeping a close eye on him and making lots of fuss off him,we have had 3 fantastic years with him and he gave us such joy,
RIP Smudge, our little Lad!
Very sorry for the loss of Smudge. Peaceful dreams, little man. 
