Guinea pig help, please?
I bουɡһt a guinea pig a even аѕ іח trade аחԁ hes bееח һοחеѕt until tһе earlier period couple οf months... I noticed a single јυѕt аחу scratches οח һіm аחԁ figured tһе οtһеr pig wаѕ beating up οח һіm. Wеחt out, bουɡһt another cage аחԁ everything moreover. Nothing ɡοt better. ѕο I figured possibly һе wаѕ hurting himself οח һіѕ wooden household, ɡοt a different lone. nothing. Wе talked tο people аחԁ tһеу ѕаіԁ oh hes allergic tο һіѕ hay. Wе ѕtοрреԁ charitable һіm һіѕ hay, аחԁ bу tһіѕ calculate һе wаѕ intake һіѕ confess skin οff аחԁ wаѕ іח tһе еחԁ bald.... Sο wе рƖοttіחɡ іt wаѕ tһе bedding, ѕο wе laid down a "reptile entwine" fοr һіm. I wаѕ tοƖԁ tο leave һіm here until һіѕ wounds healed аחԁ tһеח tο рƖасе һіm іח trade onto tһе bedding. Sο һе һаѕ a extra household, extra diet, extra bedding аחԁ חο hay. Hе soothe intake himself. Eνеrу daylight I wash һіm аחԁ deposit neosporin οח һіm аחԁ spray һіm including bitter tasting spray ѕο һе wouldn't want tο bitterness himself.... bυt nothing іѕ progressing, hes јυѕt losing extra аחԁ extra hair аחԁ chewing јυѕt аѕ greatly. I call fοr aid, I'm out οf dreams аחԁ I'm worried hes going tο eat himself until һе dies. tһе single οtһеr business I сουƖԁ reflect οf doing іѕ putting a bar nearly һіѕ head ѕο һе cant bitterness whatever business........ Delight, delight, aid mе аחԁ mу pig!
8 Responses to “Guinea pig help, please?”
Possibly give him extra equipment to do in his cage like bird bells to mess about including and chewing sticks and sandstone licks and wood to chew on and possibly a stuffed toy if he likes to chew out fur .
Hes proberlly just bored.
Mess about including him alot and whenever he chews on himself shout NO! and pull his head away early the part that hes chewing on.
My rats have cultured the speech NO and so can your pig!
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Taste any of these sites for in rank. You call for to seek out a vet ASAP. Skilled luck.
Also, taste and deposit carrots and lots of chew toys in his cage to replace the hay. It's extremely trying for guinea pigs to live without hay because it is the fix road they protect their teeth filed, so you will call for to clip their teeth including nail clippers, or have a vet trade show you the genteel road.
Do not shout at your guinea pigs EVER, you will scare them and just add on to the stress, extremely, for every calculate you gently show "No," give him a handle so he will realize every calculate he doesn't chew, then he will get on to a handle.
ohhhh poor business!! =( i would taste that collar business that could bring about. Truly i've by no means heard of a in tears like this before to. Taste this take EVERYTHING out of his cage but protect the entwine in here, deposit approximately blankets or a in tears gentle he could nuzzle on. See if that works! But dredge up to leave food and water in here! You don't want to starve the modest guy! =) As a replacement for of a water pot taste just a bowl of water possibly hes scratching him slef on that..... if that doesn't bring about then take EVERYTHING out finished again and buy or get on to a modest jacket for him so he cant get on to to himself (including the bar on at first!) i desire this helps a modest! And if that doesn't bring about you force just want to deposit him out of his missery. =( i desire you don't have to!! Skilled Luck! you can hurl by e-e-mail me at softballrox_64@ymail.com to caution me what is happening or if you have any longer questions! =)
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take him to the vet! Hasten before to its to late!
Have you check him for mites? You call for to have a vet check him out for these as now and again they're so small they can single be seen below a microscope. Also, if this has been going on for a even as he probably has a lesser infection and wants approximately rank of antibiotic. Lone other tip: Protect charitable him his hay but get on to guaranteed it's not straw The straw stalks can be so sharp they can crack the skin. Also, are you by a vitamin C supplement? Guinea pigs can't produce their confess vitamin C, and vitamin C deficiency can get on to them chew on themselves, their babies, and everything moreover. The chewing breaks the skin, he chews finished again, and the break gets larger; it's a by no means-ending logic which ends up including the poor baby dying. Delight see your vet quickly.
All that hassle and expense ......and it is highly liable to be mites which can be treated including a single just any drops of manufactured goods containing ivermectin (void in pet supplies).
The mites (similar to the mites that produce 'scabies' in humans) lie below the skin and produce intense longing. No antibiotic washes or mild insecticidal shampoos (which will tackle ordinary lice) will wipe out burrowing mites.
PLEASE GET HIM TO A VET! Early what you have described I am 99.9% guaranteed he has mites. He is biting and scratching because he is in bind!! He wants hay-do not deposit a bar on his head-he wants a shot of ivermectin early the vet!! ASAP!!!. Delight do not take annotation to Petco!! They are incorrect!!
Also get on to rid of the cabbage,and he must single get on to i baby carrot per day, he wants lettuce and leafy greens cabbage is extremely gassy for pigs,
delight go to http://www.guinealynx.com
If you do not get on to your pig treated for mites he will eventutally go to come across your maker, he also wants a better diet and wants his hay in trade.
guinealynx has a ton of tidings on tick behavior and tidings on how you can get on to him extra comfortable until the ivermectin kicks in!! Delight get on to that piggy aid now!!
Poor business. He extremely obviously has a serious case of the mites. He wants to see a vet ASAP. He will call for the meds, as other posters have said and afterwards, a homeopathic lotion that is all untreated to soathe his skin and renovate his coat. Stop spraying equipment on him and give him his hay. It is extremely vital that he has hay--which is everywhere he probably got the mites early, but if you protect up including the meds on a normal basis, they will protect the mites off.
The poor business is probably suffering horribly. By no means go to these stupid pet supplies finished again. They sell inbred, sick animals and they don't know what they are talking about.
Skilled luck.