Nannub
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2015
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- Joined
- Oct 7, 2015
- Messages
- 265
Hello everyone,
I came home from work last night and I noticed one of my guinea pigs wasn't acting quite like himself. He didn't come greet me to the side of the cage but he's always a squirmy worm so I didn't think much of it.
2 days ago I found smaller light brown poops in his cage but he has a cage mate so I couldn't tell which one was passing the poops.
My husband gets up to go to work at 3 am ish so I decided to check on my guinea pigs and this particular pig wasn't coming out of his pigloo for pellets and that's when I knew something was wrong. I picked him up (with little resistance) and noticed the RIGHT side of his tummy was hard, he was passing string-connected poops, smaller poops that he usually passes and he wasn't too interested in eating. While I did get him to eat some hay (which they have unlimited 24/7) he didn't eat much. I rubbed his tummy and I already made an appointment for a vet at 11am this morning. I suspect he's bloated. So my question is, currently is 4.29am and I want to do whatever I can to help him while we wait for the appointment. What can I do? Should I run to the store and get some baby gas drops? I have metacam at home, would that help too?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Forgot to mention we recently (2 weeks ago) switched from KMS to Sherwood pellets and my other guinea pigs eat it, not as much as KMS but they do. Nunu wouldn't eat more than a couple pellets and I noticed he lost a little bit of weight. Now I don't know if he's been losing weight because of the pellets or because he's sick.
I came home from work last night and I noticed one of my guinea pigs wasn't acting quite like himself. He didn't come greet me to the side of the cage but he's always a squirmy worm so I didn't think much of it.
2 days ago I found smaller light brown poops in his cage but he has a cage mate so I couldn't tell which one was passing the poops.
My husband gets up to go to work at 3 am ish so I decided to check on my guinea pigs and this particular pig wasn't coming out of his pigloo for pellets and that's when I knew something was wrong. I picked him up (with little resistance) and noticed the RIGHT side of his tummy was hard, he was passing string-connected poops, smaller poops that he usually passes and he wasn't too interested in eating. While I did get him to eat some hay (which they have unlimited 24/7) he didn't eat much. I rubbed his tummy and I already made an appointment for a vet at 11am this morning. I suspect he's bloated. So my question is, currently is 4.29am and I want to do whatever I can to help him while we wait for the appointment. What can I do? Should I run to the store and get some baby gas drops? I have metacam at home, would that help too?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Forgot to mention we recently (2 weeks ago) switched from KMS to Sherwood pellets and my other guinea pigs eat it, not as much as KMS but they do. Nunu wouldn't eat more than a couple pellets and I noticed he lost a little bit of weight. Now I don't know if he's been losing weight because of the pellets or because he's sick.
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