Pet Forum / Mammals / Guinea Pigs / September 2003

(I am resending this, the original had a pic attached and it looks like it
never got posted, not a binary group an' all that!)
Hi there.
I have a couple of young pigs,(step daughters' really!) they are actually

http://haybunnyfarm.homestead.com/files/_lucky.jpg
I found a pic of a pig that is the spitting image of my Arthur.
So I guess I have myself a Silkie. :)
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Hi.  One of my guinea pigs has a milky white eye discharge coming from her
eyes.  I've only noticed it once before (about a month ago) and when I wiped
it from her eyes, it didn't come back until just now.  I've wiped her eyes
again and it's gone.  I was wondering if anyone can tell ...

What is the name of the testing strips that you use to check the glucose
levels in your gp's urine?
Do these strips also tell you if there is blood in the urine?
Thank you very much

Does anyone know of any Ontario Canada GP groups or clubs?
pcpcmail@rogers.com

Does anyone know the background of the phrase "guinea pig' referring
to experimental or other observational procedures?...I do not know of
guinea pigs actually being used in this context....i always thought it
was rats or mice or rabbits...Both myself,Chuckles and little Piggles

I have a guinea pig who is a very young calico colored male.
He has straight fine hair, with only one cow-lick on the top of his
head. (where he lickes to get scratched, it's so cute) As he is growing
his hair is getting longer and longer, and I was wondering how to

Hello group and and your slaves!
As some of you  know, I got my Daisy pig-girl back from the
rodent-sitter (dear Mélanie) one week ago.  I have almost three years of
being a pig mom.

First of all, let me admit it publicly, i'm a bad piggie mom.  Very bad,
and i think my little Nuggett would agree right now.  Nuggett is a long
haired piggie, very long hair, and very thick.  And he HATES being
groomed.  So admittedly, i don't do it nearly often enough.  Well

Hi, we have three G-Pigs one of them is starting to go bald on her right
side.  any ideas?  None of the others are balding.  Nothing has changed to
coincide with this.  She isn't scratching or biting herself.
TIA,

I created a play-pen for my pigs. Well, bought it.  they have them at
wall-mart for 9.00. I
bought 2 and hooked them together.  I sat in the middle of the pen, and
they started circling

Just found this group and thought it was interesting and educational. My
daughter has a Guinea Pig that I can't easily place into one of the
categories or breeds in a book. He is tan, white and brown, and his hair is
a bit long to be considered a "short hair" in my (unqualified) ...

As one of my girls is very obviously pregnant, it was about time to move the
guy to his own apartment last week, and set it up in an old avary  with tons
of hay, hidey houses, food, treats and everything. He's always been
skittish, doesn't like me much and he got worse, never ...

We have a sweet little guinea pig about 7 months old.  It's a male, a total
doll, very tame, gentle, not at all skittish.  We'd love to get him a little
friend to share his cage but don't want to breed litters. (we don't want
more than two pigs and don't think we could bear to sell ...

Hi! Do guinea pigs need to have a balanced diet, like carrot, celery, guinea
dry food.. etc.?