| Not moving around
I just adopted my two girls (Suki and Rika, 6 weeks old) From a friend in Tennessee about a week ago. They are really coming around and loving their veggies, exploring and playing and snuggling , normal guinea pig things. I got an email from my friend who said the other two girls from the litter , of the pregnant guinea that was surrendered to her, are acting kind of funny. As far as I know they are eating, but they aren't running about like usual. In fact, she said they hardly move at all. When I went to visit , and pick up susu and rik, I noticed they all ran about and played and ate and chirped and week!ed loudly. She informed me that she was putting the babies in quarantine until she could speak with a vet and see what could be going on . I told her my girls were fine and I would talk with my vet also when I make my trip to take the girls in a couple days , just to get a second opinion. I have no idea what could be going on based on the symptoms she told me. My friend also has four boys (housed in seperate cages from the girls) and the mother (who was housed with the babies) and she informed me they were all acting normally. It is just the little ones acting funny. This really scares me , because the mother was surrendered to her via some flea market guy that she yelled at for having her out in the sun , no water, and we are wondering if it might be some genetic defect that is caused from inbreeding the poor creatures . I am taking my girls to the vet asap just to insure they are all around healthy, but was wondering if anyone might have any experience with this kind of behaviour and could tell me what might be going on ?
Symptoms again are : hardly any movement / no chirping /wheeking , not running about/away , at least when people are present (which I know they used to do only a week ago)
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