Pet Forum / Mammals / Guinea Pigs / April 2005

Dillen and Riley --I believe are siblings.......get along great
But did you have unrelated guinea males together.....?
DId it work out?
Bonnie

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I just got Ceasar a new toy... and I did'nt buy it.  I was cleaning out my
closet, where I found an old pair of pants.  Ceasar was having free time, so
he squirmed over and ran up and down the legs.  He loves it!

Hi all,
first off, this is my first post in a long time. I had trouble with my old
ISP - NTL, their news servers were awfull - so I'd given up newsgroups for
a while :( I'm on a new ISP now (pipex) who are superb ! I've spent the

do guinea pigs like bread crusts???????
guineapigfan

Just a wee note to say I got hold of some cubes via eBay AT LAST!!!  Then I
was most displeased to go to the DIY shop today (B&Q for all you UK folks)
to find the cubes for £6 less than I paid for them.  BLAH!!
Nonetheless, I've been planning the cage for days now.  I gave up on ...

Was at the PetCetera today with the kiddo I work with doing respite.
Decided, finally, after careful evaluation of their stock and the
piggies' living arrangements, that I will never buy from them and I'm
going to try to get my charge to be okay with going to PetLand from now

I've been giving my two piggies 1/4 tablet of chlidrens vitamin c daily (25
mg). They also get green or red pepper, tomato, romaine lettuce, carrot and
their pellets. Is this too much vit C?     Joanne

One of our piggies, Rocket, developed an abcess on his bottom.  It came up very very quickly to a large
hot lump.  The emergency vet drained and flushed it and gave us some liquid to continue flushing the
wound for several days.  Its a dreadful horrible thing to have to do as the ...

Hey everyone. . just wanted to let you know Taryn has been getting
better and better since yesterday.  She is now eating well on her own,
drinking on her own(although I wish she'd drink more)and moving around
a lot better.  I see glimpses of her old self.  On Friday, we did find

I didn't think that this was a lot to worry about, but it really scares me.
Just in case you guys were wondering, I'm 10 years old.  I asked my dad if i
could take Ceasar to the vet, but he said that i would have to find out more
about it.  I am really worried about my baby, I ...

The vet called me late this morning and they found a pocket of gas in
her intestines.  They gave her a banamine injection (for the pain) and
put her on sulfa/trimethoprim antibiotics.  I'm supposed to keep her on
that for 10 days.  He said the prognosis was "guarded."  He gave her

It is about 10:30 pm at night and I can't find an emergency vet that
handles guinea pigs.  I just noticed one of my pigs, Taryn, is not
acting right.  Taryn is almost 2 years old and she is always the one to
greet you. .everyday of her life she has done that.  She always takes

I have just cleaned my piggies out and noticed that one of them is losing a
lot of white fur from a patch on his back.  I have taken them to the vets
before about this problem and he gave them a couple of injections and it
seemed to cure the problem.

We've noticed that over the past couple of days, Pickle seems to be drinking
a lot more than usual.  Nothing has changed in his surroundings, such as
temperature etc and I was wondering if it's anything to worry about?
He's still quite perky and doesn't seem at all ill, but I ...