Hi all,
Thank you for the welcome. We sadly recently lost our 4 month old guinea pig due to presumed infection- she died at the vets office during an emergency visit. She seemed to go down hill in a matter of 12 hours from running around happily to a rapid decline. We don’t know what happened and that definitely makes me worry and feel guilty like I could of prevented it. We decided we still wanted to own a pet, so after thorough washing and sanitizing of cage we set up the habitat again for our new adopted pair of girls (11 months old). (Our first was from pet store). So far these 2 are VERY social and doing well. I have two big issues and as we had the first tragedy I’m extremely cautious now about making any changes....
1) the poop looks different - we’ve had them for 1 day but one of the girls has rounder poops that seem to flatten. I don’t know their habits yet or who it belongs to so I don’t know what she ate in foster care. Any ideas or thoughts?
2) the cage stinks after 1 day! We have fleece bedding. Our young babe used to go up against a corner so it was easy to just change out the litter box, but these two go EVERYWHERE - can I litter train 1 year olds?! I think they had pine bedding in foster care, but that makes me uneasy.
Thank you for help/guidance/reassurance!
Thank you for the welcome. We sadly recently lost our 4 month old guinea pig due to presumed infection- she died at the vets office during an emergency visit. She seemed to go down hill in a matter of 12 hours from running around happily to a rapid decline. We don’t know what happened and that definitely makes me worry and feel guilty like I could of prevented it. We decided we still wanted to own a pet, so after thorough washing and sanitizing of cage we set up the habitat again for our new adopted pair of girls (11 months old). (Our first was from pet store). So far these 2 are VERY social and doing well. I have two big issues and as we had the first tragedy I’m extremely cautious now about making any changes....
1) the poop looks different - we’ve had them for 1 day but one of the girls has rounder poops that seem to flatten. I don’t know their habits yet or who it belongs to so I don’t know what she ate in foster care. Any ideas or thoughts?
2) the cage stinks after 1 day! We have fleece bedding. Our young babe used to go up against a corner so it was easy to just change out the litter box, but these two go EVERYWHERE - can I litter train 1 year olds?! I think they had pine bedding in foster care, but that makes me uneasy.
Thank you for help/guidance/reassurance!