Eryan
Junior Guinea Pig
Hello all,
We're very very new here so we hope we're doing this right, but we need help.
We "rescued" two guinea pigs about a month ago from Craigslist and since then it's just been vet trip to vet trip. This post is pertaining to Clover though, Clover has had the most trouble since we received her. Clover is roughly 4 years old. She is lumpy with possible cysts (the vet says at least), she has back problems, and we currently have her on Meloxicam and Sulfa Ped for her pain and a possible UTI.
We have witnessed a lot of very dark "pees" on her fleece, but we're honestly not sure what's going on with her. Sometimes she has a regular looking pee that turns a darker orange/brown color, but today she scared us with an extra dark one. It looks like a deep dark redish-black or brown. Now that it's dried, the spot appears almost entirely black.
What could this be? We used a syringe to suck some up before it dried to test it in hydrogen peroxide to see if it would fizz to indicate blood, but it didn't! I'm at a loss. She was very slow and poorly for herself before going, and even after going she has remained that way.
She's been on critical care for about a week as suggested by our vet due to her slowly losing weight, nothing significant though. Just to try to make sure she's getting a good diet, she was just back at the vet's on Friday and she was the same weight as the previous visit, so that's good news. She's also been on Bene-bac for inconstant poops but we just recently stopped adminstration because it wasn't helping.
As weird as this is going to sound, we smelled her "pee" and it was very sweet smelling to me. Her poops have tails and constantly change between green and smelly, small and brown, and everything in between. They change a lot throughout day. And often we use an electric toothbrush to vibrate her because she appears bloated or we can hear pent-up gas inside of her. This helps her go poop quite a lot sometimes but her vet says she shows no signs of bloat.
Normally, she'll eat hay all day, not really touch her pellets, and wheek for us when she wants critical care. She'll drink water occasionally but we often give her a few mls a day from a syringe just to be safe. She doesn't eat veggies because her old owners never gave her any and she hasn't really warmed up to us offering her them yet.
I'm sorry to dump so much information on you guys but we need help. We keep going to the vet, in the last 8 weeks of owning these two we've never gone a week without a vet trip, but lately they haven't been able to identify the issues we've been seeing. we just don't know what to do anymore, she has been given an X-ray already and they said they saw no stones, we give her her UTI meds, we don't know what else could be happening. Please help.
We're very very new here so we hope we're doing this right, but we need help.
We "rescued" two guinea pigs about a month ago from Craigslist and since then it's just been vet trip to vet trip. This post is pertaining to Clover though, Clover has had the most trouble since we received her. Clover is roughly 4 years old. She is lumpy with possible cysts (the vet says at least), she has back problems, and we currently have her on Meloxicam and Sulfa Ped for her pain and a possible UTI.
We have witnessed a lot of very dark "pees" on her fleece, but we're honestly not sure what's going on with her. Sometimes she has a regular looking pee that turns a darker orange/brown color, but today she scared us with an extra dark one. It looks like a deep dark redish-black or brown. Now that it's dried, the spot appears almost entirely black.
What could this be? We used a syringe to suck some up before it dried to test it in hydrogen peroxide to see if it would fizz to indicate blood, but it didn't! I'm at a loss. She was very slow and poorly for herself before going, and even after going she has remained that way.
She's been on critical care for about a week as suggested by our vet due to her slowly losing weight, nothing significant though. Just to try to make sure she's getting a good diet, she was just back at the vet's on Friday and she was the same weight as the previous visit, so that's good news. She's also been on Bene-bac for inconstant poops but we just recently stopped adminstration because it wasn't helping.
As weird as this is going to sound, we smelled her "pee" and it was very sweet smelling to me. Her poops have tails and constantly change between green and smelly, small and brown, and everything in between. They change a lot throughout day. And often we use an electric toothbrush to vibrate her because she appears bloated or we can hear pent-up gas inside of her. This helps her go poop quite a lot sometimes but her vet says she shows no signs of bloat.
Normally, she'll eat hay all day, not really touch her pellets, and wheek for us when she wants critical care. She'll drink water occasionally but we often give her a few mls a day from a syringe just to be safe. She doesn't eat veggies because her old owners never gave her any and she hasn't really warmed up to us offering her them yet.
I'm sorry to dump so much information on you guys but we need help. We keep going to the vet, in the last 8 weeks of owning these two we've never gone a week without a vet trip, but lately they haven't been able to identify the issues we've been seeing. we just don't know what to do anymore, she has been given an X-ray already and they said they saw no stones, we give her her UTI meds, we don't know what else could be happening. Please help.
If it isn’t stones or urinary infection I’d get a scan done
