Hello guys, id love to have some help around here instead of flying right away to a vet.
Nano is my male guinea pig, he has about 5 months and he is very active and sweet.
About 3 weeks ago, i caught what i thought it would be a tick on him. I heated up the tip of sum tweezers and tried to pull it out a dozen times. I hurt my baby, but i finally managed to take it off. He bleed like hell, but it passed. It didnt look like a tick tho, it had an "squashed almond"-like body. I dont know if i chopped the supposed tick's body, but it came out without the head and now all he has is a hairless zone with a brownish spot.
It kinda healed, I stopped feeding him grass from my yard so i thought he would be fine and no more ticks would appear.
But yesterday, when i was playing with him, i saw another of those "ticks". It had exactly the same size, it made exactly the same brownish spot around it and it was perfectly symmetrical to the other wound!
Here is a pic of the wounds. On the left its the healed wound, and on the right is the new wound.
Here u can see the shape of this thing.
Please help me, he is still very active and nothing has changed, but this is worrying me a lot
Nano is my male guinea pig, he has about 5 months and he is very active and sweet.
About 3 weeks ago, i caught what i thought it would be a tick on him. I heated up the tip of sum tweezers and tried to pull it out a dozen times. I hurt my baby, but i finally managed to take it off. He bleed like hell, but it passed. It didnt look like a tick tho, it had an "squashed almond"-like body. I dont know if i chopped the supposed tick's body, but it came out without the head and now all he has is a hairless zone with a brownish spot.
It kinda healed, I stopped feeding him grass from my yard so i thought he would be fine and no more ticks would appear.
But yesterday, when i was playing with him, i saw another of those "ticks". It had exactly the same size, it made exactly the same brownish spot around it and it was perfectly symmetrical to the other wound!
Here is a pic of the wounds. On the left its the healed wound, and on the right is the new wound.
Here u can see the shape of this thing.
Please help me, he is still very active and nothing has changed, but this is worrying me a lot