Pet Forum / Mammals / Guinea Pigs / March 2007

I live in a very small town (pop. 3k) and today I took my pig in for a URI.
I'd seen some of ya'll speak of "intervectin" or something like that.  When
I mentioned it to her, she'd never heard of it.  Am I dreaming?  I've never
seen this vet before so I don't know how reliable ...

Last summer I got these 2 piggies (Browntje and Streepje). They were a few
months old at the time and I did not know their sex at all (obviously they
were either 2 males or 2 females because there have not been piglets).
Neither do I know anything of their history. After a bit at ...

We lost our Tansy this weekend.
We picked her up at an over-crowded pet store.  VERY fortunate that as
a wee young one that she wasn't pregnant at the time.  She needed some
growing and maturing time.

Most pet owners have no idea how to perform CPR, or even begin to give
basic medical care to their pet. But you should know these things,
because in some emergencies, you can't always get to the Vet in time.
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My male pig has 3-4 little scabs on the middle of his back.  They can barely
be seen but one can feel them.  They're very small, hard, scabby bumps.
Apparently, they're also tender because if we touch the bumps, he tries to
bite us.  They don't ooze anything.  They're just dried ...

Well, I went to the vet last Saturday evening. Beer was in pain and
had spsms or convulsions. He pulle din his right hind leg under him.
The vet squeezed out a ball of. ehm...manuer. For a while he ahd that
problem, not producring canoes. His ...a.s...was enlarged, it didn't

hi - well school is picking up pace here, the kids need be at school
an hour earlier for band and god knows what else. Needless to say, its
a bit crazy in the morning.
to simplify things we were thinking of giving them just hay, check the

I weighed Piggles my number one pig today..
She weighs in at 1.6 kg (I think thats 3.5lbs for our American friends)
Now that is one big pig. How does this compare to pigs around the
world...anyone have a pig this big???

the piggies are fed twice a day now.  Anyone see any harm in having
them fed just once a day for three days?
I'm finding it easier to find someone to come in once a day, twice
they just cannot do.  last year we boarded 2 of them, and that cost us

hi, My guinea pig, Noel, doesn't eat like at all like half a piece of
lettuce or whatever, and she doesn't really move much either. when i
pick her up, her back end seems like wet and heavy, like not wet, but
dampish. i don't know whats wrong with her. has any body ever had this

So our boy Topper has been lonely since his cage mate Timeron died.
Hasn't been eating properly, just mostly his veggies.  BUT we got him
a stuffed fish, big eyes, plump body.  We have a piggie eating his hay
and pellets again.