Pet Forum / Mammals / Guinea Pigs / December 2006

Hopefully not a silly question
Do Guinea pigs menstruate?
We have kept females for about 10 years and have never noticed it before,
but today I noticed one of my older females is bleeding, and I don't want to

Hi all, I have seen people keeping them in the same C&C cage and just
partition them apart, now I have just been told today if I keep the
girls too close to the boys, the boys might fight, at the moment I
separated them in two different C&C cages in opposite corner of the room

I've heard rodents love this.
Is it healthy for pigs?
sharon

LP is a male pig about 5years 4months old, and has lost weight, he normally
rooms with George who is roughly same age, but twice his size! they don't
seem to fight, but we separated them for a few days and LP is eating
everything, any thoughts, comments or suggestions welcome.

My server doesn't carry any degu groups, and I have a very sick one here.
He's got a suspected respiratory infection, but after the trip to the vets
(45 mins each way) he's very bloated and lifeless. The suspicion is he's
been swallowing air while getting stressed on the journey (he ...

One of my daughters piggies looked quite interested in my garlic bread
last night.
anyone tried a few bits of fresh garlic with their veggies?
Craig

Hi Everyone.  My guinea pig does a weird jump/bounce sometimes if you touch
in a certain place on her back also she kind of collapses on to her side for
a few seconds with a leg in the air  it seems quite violent and obviously
she doesn't like it so we try to only touch her near ...

The vet called.
Peanut was put under and found to have a mass in her throat that precluded
intubation.  So no PCO surgery.  She briefly stopped breathing while under
but started on her own.