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Guinea Pig Papa , @Soecara , I really appreciate the helpful suggestions...But here's the thing: If I order something online, it has to ship. And I need this now, not a week from now. The longer...

Hmm...I don't know where I would could find that...

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I made the cart out of LEGOs, because I didn't have any wheels that I could directly attach to the flip flop,...

Oooh, that is clever. Thank you very much--I'll definitely need that for reference. I don't know where I can find neoprene...I'll have to look into that.

True genius.

Greetings, my human and non-human friends. Today I come with a complicated and unusual issue.

As some of you know, Maple is paralyzed. Or, he was paralyzed. He's gotten a significant amount of...

Welcome to the forum, and hello from Maple and Steve!

Ooo, clever! I've got to get/make me one of those.

I'll put my head together with my mom and we'll see if we can do some of those things! They're pretty set in their ways (and Maple hates chewing wood), so I don't know if it'll work. But we'll see.

I think you're wrong about the frustration and territorial behavior. When we put Maple back into his cage after holding him for a while, the first thing he does is go and chew the bars of the divider...

Hello! I do hope I'm posting this in the proper forum.

I have two boars (Maple and Steve) living in a 2x6 C&C with a grid barrier down the middle, because they didn't get along well enough to be...

Maple went to the vet yesterday, and they trimmed his teeth. It seems to have helped. He's eating the orchard grass just fine, but he's still not very into his pellets. He'll walk over and eat one...

Thanks

This evening's feeding was rather traumatic. Maple has decided that he now hates any and all syringes, but for the first time we were actually able to get something into him. Mostly because I finally...

What do you mean by a molar planing?

I'll have another look at his incisors, but last I checked they didn't seem to be worn at an angle. Also, he is eating hay again. So that's something

That's what I thought. If he's eating hay and chewing hard things, will his teeth wear down enough? Or do they need to be trimmed in some way?

And the saga continues.

I watched Maple trying to eat his pellets today, and I figured out why he dropped them all. For whatever reason, he can't eat them unless he can get them at exactly the...

Got it. Many many thanks

I used aspen shavings for a good while. It never caused a problem for my boar Maple, but that's not a good reason to think it won't cause a problem for yours. Maple is just good like that--his...

spy9doc , thank you! That's all very helpful. We have some spring mix...is there anything in a spring mix that they might NOT be able to safely eat? (for example, ours has spinach in it...is that...

I tried bell pepper--he wouldn't eat it. And he seems to be struggling with his hay...he has to get it at just the right angle, or he can't seem to eat it.

Yet another update:

My dad gave me a new end for my syringe, but it was just slightly too narrow. I watered the Critical Care down as much as I felt like I could without it being more water than...

My brother suggested that! But I have no idea how to pull that off. Hopefully I won't have to--I could've sworn I saw him support his weight on his back left leg today. I think he's actually getting...

Yeah...I think I may have to do that. Dad gave me an end for the syringe I currently have, but it's too thin, and the stuff won't come out properly. He says he needs to find an "irrigation syringe"...

Frozen, huh. That's interesting!

I'm not totally sure if I'll be able to find them--corn season is a little earlier here than most places--but I'll keep an eye out. Thank you!