Pet Forum / Mammals / Guinea Pigs / April 2007

This is the story of what happened to Dombo, our beloved guinea pig. He
came to live with us on july 11th 2004, and soon became the center of
our lives.
One day he seemed to have trouble eating, so we took him to a local vet

I've heard that green peppers are suppose to be good for guinea pigs;
high in vitamin C.  Well, I bought 2 last night and though that I would
try them on my 5 guinea pigs.  But how do feed them the peppers?  Only
outside?  or can they take the inside too.  I think there HOT, aren't

It is with great sadness and anger that I post today.
Sadness. . .because I lost my guinea pig, Odin.  He was only 2 years
old. .the youngest of our 8 guinea pigs.  Odin may have been the baby,
but he was our largest guinea pig, topping the scale at over 4 lbs

Well, I hope the piglets don't suffer any long-lasting harm from being
terrorized by my roommate's dog, Domino (a Border Collie/Cocker Spaniel
cross), jumping into their cages!
First he got into Katonia's cage.  She had the good sense to go directly into

Well, on Monday night we noticed that one of our guinea pig's eye
looked swollen and inflamed.  It actually looked like it was bulging
out of the socket.  We took her into the vet on Tuesday morning.
There are 2 veterinarians at our client. .I'll call them the good

Katonia has lost weight since Princess died, which leads me to believe that I
really should have had the girls living separately, since I suspect Katty was
eating most of the food.  However, Katonia isn't unhealthily skinny or
anything, so I'm not too worried about her.  Except that ...

Ernie has had a third tooth growing along with his usual 2 top teeth.
The tooth is long and tubular and does not get ground down with his other
teeth as it is qhite flimsy and moves across the front of the top two teeth.
Is it okay to trim the tooth or is it a job for the vet?

i took both of my piggies to the vet one tells me that i shouldn't
feed them pellet food cause it slows down there digestive track and
only feed them salad and timothy hay, then i took them to get there
nails cut and the vet tells me that i can feed them pellet food as

Hey all, ever since I moved my peeg into a real cage insterad of a peeg
playpen on towels, I have been plagued with attacks of little black flies.
I get rid of them and a couple weeks later they're back.  They hang on my
walls, eat yogurt, fruit, and bedding soaked with peeg ...

Hello! I am a new member in the group. My name is Robyn, and I have 4
wonderful, young guinea pigs: Kitty, Nibbler, Punkin', and Boy. I
thought it would be fun to join and chat with other guinea pig owner's
like myself!

I put food down in front of her and often times she spaces out and
runs around the cage...
guessing its a sign of happiness, smelling fresh hay, strawberries,
etc...

i have a castrated male tri colored guinea pig that seem to poops a
lot when hes excited what should i do when i put him on the bed im
tired of all this poop help someone

We just bought our first two piggies ever last night.  They are two
girls....very cute.  Kinda small....I guess....I don't know much about them.
They seem to be happy, running around, looks like they are playing a bit.
They like to be held once I can get them....one squeeks a lot ...

We have 7 guinea pigs.  Six of them are healthy; one is not.
The sick one is:
albino, female, approx 7 months old.
She had a miscarriage a few weeks ago.