Hello all,
I have a question about the behaviour I've been seeing in my guinea pig. A little backstory:
My 6 years old guinea pig had lost 50/60 gram of weight about 2/3 weeks ago. The vet couldn't find anything wrong, I went home with pain med (4 days) and critical care. He is doing much better now, slowly back to his normal self, weight had stabilized. I also took him off critical care 2 days ago. Just to be safe, I'm going to another exotic vet in 2 weeks to get a second opinion and perhaps get some Xray to get to the bottom of this.
I notice that he would run out of his igloo to eat hay when I come in the room and when he's done, he would go back inside his igloo, yawn, then chatter his teeth, not grinding, but chattering, same as when right before he eats. I really don't remember him doing that before. Any ideas?
Thanks so much!
I have a question about the behaviour I've been seeing in my guinea pig. A little backstory:
My 6 years old guinea pig had lost 50/60 gram of weight about 2/3 weeks ago. The vet couldn't find anything wrong, I went home with pain med (4 days) and critical care. He is doing much better now, slowly back to his normal self, weight had stabilized. I also took him off critical care 2 days ago. Just to be safe, I'm going to another exotic vet in 2 weeks to get a second opinion and perhaps get some Xray to get to the bottom of this.
I notice that he would run out of his igloo to eat hay when I come in the room and when he's done, he would go back inside his igloo, yawn, then chatter his teeth, not grinding, but chattering, same as when right before he eats. I really don't remember him doing that before. Any ideas?
Thanks so much!