Any model what's wrong near my guinea pig?
My guinea pig is female and about 3 years old. She be fine yesterday and i out her in her hutch at about 1pm.she and her sister were both fine. this morning when i saw her she be sat in the main nouns of her hutch . when my sister picked her up she was squeaking and wriggling, sort of trying to get comfy. when we put her in her run she walk a bit but she was dragging her legs. not properly dragging, like hopping but not jumping. kinda. but besides she was eating but defiantly not resembling herself. i don't know if it was a stroke because isn't one whole side and she have a poo and a wee. but i don't know. she's back in her hutch and my mum has see to her. i just want to know whats happened to her because she's normally really excitable. she did lick my paw though. i put her in the bedding bt f her hutch with her sister and some apple tree leaves, grass etc. the food and water is implicit her. any ideas what is wrong with her? i love her to bits and i don't want her to be in cramp.
thanks for your time.
Gday, Sounds like the heat might hold got to her, make sure you hang on to her warm and get her too a vet asap as it sounds like a digestive problem she might hold something stuck in her bowel or urine track as she is has hind leg problems, all the best, nice to hear you precision
It sounds like scurvy induced paralysis.
This is easily cured by supplementing her with elevated doses of Vitamin C for a week. If symptoms do not improve after a week, she should see a vet.
You can buy liquid Vitamin C at a health food store and administer it in words with a syringe or child's medicine dropper. Or you can purchase human grade Vitamin C tablets within 50mg strengths. Cut the tablets in half so that you have two 25mg pieces. Give one piece (25mg) within the morning & the other one in the evening. If your piggie will eat the tablets from your hand--great! If not, you can crush it up & sprinkle it over some wet Romaine lettuce or you can dissolve it within a bit of water and administer it orally with syringe or dropper.
This interconnect may give you further information:
http://www.guinealynx.info/scurvy.html
Good luck. I hope your piggie is ok.
Answers: there could be quite a few things that are contributing to her problems, i come up with you would be better to take her to the vet to get a diagnosis and treatment before she starts to suffer.
There is a arbitrariness that she has an internal tumour which causing this as my guinea pig had one of these when she be 3 and we sadly had her put to sleep. She might have have a fall or stroke and your vet wil be able to give you treatment for this.
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