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Warm weather and piggies

Chloegkenny

Chloegkenny

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Hello. I have two indoor piggies Norman and Earnie. Today they haven’t eaten any of their food maybe eaten a bit of hay but I’ve refilled their bottle twice. I’ve put a iced bottle of water in their cage and they have been sitting next to it and licking off the condensation. Is there anything I can do to get them to eat? Maybe it’s too warm for them but I’ve always got the fan on and window open
 
I would contact the vet if they don’t eat over 24 hours. Offer them some fresh veggies/fruit too!
 
Chloegkenny said:
Hello. I have two indoor piggies Norman and Earnie. Today they haven’t eaten any of their food maybe eaten a bit of hay but I’ve refilled their bottle twice. I’ve put a iced bottle of water in their cage and they have been sitting next to it and licking off the condensation. Is there anything I can do to get them to eat? Maybe it’s too warm for them but I’ve always got the fan on and window open
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Hi!

If your piggies are not eating and are losing weight, it is too hot for them and they are suffering from heat stroke. Heat stroke can kill and your piggies are coming very close to it!
Step in with cooling them gently down as described in the guide to avoid cardiac arrest and have them vet checked in the cooler morning. Do not put them in a boiling hot car, please!
Hot Weather Management And Heat Strokes
The temptation to overfeed watery veg in hot weather!
Travelling with guinea pigs

Just a frozen bottle of water (please always wrapped to avoid skin from freezing to the bottle) is not enough if you leave your window open and are fanning in hot sun-warmed outdoors air of well over 40 C into the room all day long! :(
Please cool their room down as much as you can overnight when you need a fan to get every little spec of cool air into your flat/house to cool it down with cross-drafts and then close any windows and pull the curtains wherever is going to move while you are out in order to keep your place as cool as possible for a long as possible.

Step in with syringe feeding fibre and offering COLD, drinkable water ASAP. Weigh them daily in order to check their food intake (hay should still make over 80% of the food intake.) It is vital that you keep your piggies's guts going as much as possible.
Not Eating, Weight Loss And The Importance Of Syringe Feeding Fibre

Please use the specially monitored Health/Illness illness section for any enquiries on important health questions for quicker responses.
 
Chloegkenny said:
I’ve woke up this morning and they’ve ate all the food I put down for them last night and they don’t seem out of character or anything. Maybe they were just a bit of it yesterday. Thank
You for the help x
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Please make sure that you keep them as cool as you can. I have collected all the tips I have come across in a decade in the heat management guide.
 
Chloegkenny said:
I constantly have fan on and my window open with iced bottle in their cage x
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A fan on with the window open during the day means that you are fanning hot outdoors air into the room. Please be aware that 30 C is the coolest outdoors air; what is entering your room while the sun is out is A LOT hotter!
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