Pet Forum / Mammals / Guinea Pigs / December 2003

Anyone know what the known genetic problems are with Dalmatian Piggies.
We have a 1 year old Dalmatian cross that has started to develop cataracts,
our local Rodent Specialist has advised us that this one of the known
Genetic problems with this breed of Piggy, anyone know what else ...

Hi. I am living in the UK, but will be moving to Amsterdam
(permanently) to start a new job in January. I have a 3-year-old
guinea pig and had hoped that I could take him, but KLM say that he is
classed as a rodent, and they won't allow him on the plane because of

I bought a beautiful guinea pig October 17th and named her Phoebe.  She gave
us a fantastic present of a new baby piggie on Dec. 26th.  If the baby is a
girl we'll name her Felice.  Phoebe is a wonderful mom and Felice is an
absolute cutie!

Does anyone know how much hydrangea and cornsilk I should give to my Guinea
pig? From Peter Gurney's website, it said 1ml each time. However as I read
the description on the bottle, 1ml is the amount for human. Besides that
will the Alcohol in the tincture cause the guinea pig any ...

Please Help, I have just found my brothers guinea pig, lucy dead in her
cage, she has a partner, Jodi, who doesnt look worried, what can I do to
make sure Jodi doesnt get lonely until we will get a new pig?
god bless Lucy, make sure you have lots of fun in piggy heaven.

We adopted two 2 year old guinea pigs recently.  The pigs are in fairly good
shape and are very alert etc.  One of them is extremely timid and will run
for cover if we go anywhere near him.  We've called him Trevor.  The other
(we've called Reg) is quite the opposite and always ...

Just recently I've started making a lot of noise and rolling over on my back
and kicking when the people I bought scratch me.  I only roll over very
briefly, and I don't kick at them, just in mid-air.  I don't do this all the
time, just now and again.

Wondering if someone might be able to help?
Desperately searching for some large cardboard tubes
for our two piggies to run through.  Tried all the
local pet shops (am in North Lincs, UK) to

I have a problem with one of our guinea pigs.  The vet says it has skin
mites, the worse case he's every seen, and it is scratching until it bleeds.
The pig has had two treatments already but today (Sunday) it has scratched
and is again bleeding.  The past week we have been using ...

As the Christmas season draws upon us once again, I have been buying
bags of (shelled) nuts to eat while I work on my dissertation. Fern
usually has her laptime while I'm doing this - she enjoys pushing at
the mouse with her nose, and I'm not sure , but I think that the

Merry Christmas dear group,
It's Elisa from France who is an American.  I can only give you bad news
about flying with a pig.
You can check all of the posts concerning me and my traveling on this

I would never have thought it! but he weeks now when I come home, watches me
eat my tea, front paws on the feeding tray, looks at me, weeek weeek until I
say "want a banana?"he watches me eat it, skin gets put down, he grabs it,
back to the cage were he demolishes it!

To all,
May you all have a very Happy Holiday. I wish all herds, health and
happiness in this year and soon the next.
Mike, Macey and Kiwi

Hi Piggies,
Merry Christmas.
Our piggies have tiny stockings so Santa won't overlook them.
Goblin

About a week or two ago, I noticed my three year old pig, Cocoa, was missing
one of his top teeth.  This has happened in the past and it grew back fine
so I left it.  He was eating normally.  Today, we went to give him his
morning carrot and he could not grab onto it.  Upon ...