biscandmatt
Senior Guinea Pig
recently ches and maisie have both started sneezing quite a bit. the hay has been more dusty than normal recently but is still better than most (it's the dust free hay)
i've taken them a few times to the vets over the last year or so for this kind of thing but the vet can't find anything wrong with them. and from reading threads on here it seemed they were a bit hayfevery.
this time though they seem to be sneezing more than last time. maisie is wiping her nose. i've been weighing them and they are keeping stable weights, even increasing slightly. they are acting normally, popcorning and eating and drinking normally. toiletting is normal.
they definitely sneeze after i have added fresh hay. even when i let it settle first. i clean the hay area everyday and the whole cage every other day aswell.
our house has been quite cold lately. we didn't know the boiler setting etc was wrong so the air must have been quite damp in here.
they seem to go through phases of sneezing quite a bit (new hay and when the temperature drops) and then no sneezing for ages. :{
the only new thing is they are now having the timothy hay from the willow warren which they love. they have it in those feed balls so pull it out of there. it doesn't seem dusty though. and they started sneezing a bit before that anyway.
it could just be a dusty batch of DFH. it does seem like they were last year when they were hayfevery, but is it too early for that in february? :{
any advice please? i am taking the bunnies for their myxi vaccs this week so could take ches and maisie along again to have them checked over. it's quite a long journey though, 40mins each way, so i don't want to take them if i am just over-reacting again! rolleyes
my vet is amazing and if there was the slightest thing the other times he would have known for definite.
i don't know if i am just panicking. :{
i've taken them a few times to the vets over the last year or so for this kind of thing but the vet can't find anything wrong with them. and from reading threads on here it seemed they were a bit hayfevery.
this time though they seem to be sneezing more than last time. maisie is wiping her nose. i've been weighing them and they are keeping stable weights, even increasing slightly. they are acting normally, popcorning and eating and drinking normally. toiletting is normal.
they definitely sneeze after i have added fresh hay. even when i let it settle first. i clean the hay area everyday and the whole cage every other day aswell.
our house has been quite cold lately. we didn't know the boiler setting etc was wrong so the air must have been quite damp in here.
they seem to go through phases of sneezing quite a bit (new hay and when the temperature drops) and then no sneezing for ages. :{
the only new thing is they are now having the timothy hay from the willow warren which they love. they have it in those feed balls so pull it out of there. it doesn't seem dusty though. and they started sneezing a bit before that anyway.
it could just be a dusty batch of DFH. it does seem like they were last year when they were hayfevery, but is it too early for that in february? :{
any advice please? i am taking the bunnies for their myxi vaccs this week so could take ches and maisie along again to have them checked over. it's quite a long journey though, 40mins each way, so i don't want to take them if i am just over-reacting again! rolleyes
my vet is amazing and if there was the slightest thing the other times he would have known for definite.
i don't know if i am just panicking. :{