Silverwind
Well-known Member
Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2012
- Posts
- 79
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2012
- Messages
- 79
Our favorite guinea pig, RC, has a tumour like growth on his side/belly. It is quite bad and started bleeding yesterday, so today, we took him in to see the vet. We hoped it was an abscess. The vet told us he feels tissue inside and is concerned that it could be either a mammary tumour or a hernia. He wants to operate. Here's the tricky part- he has limited experience with guinea pig surgery, since people don't generally bring their guinea pigs to the vet. So the risk to RC is higher than of he were a dog or a cat. On the other hand, the growth is big and ugly and bleeds off and on and is at least uncomfortable, but I think it might be painful even though RC doesn't show any sign of being in pain. It looks like something that would hurt. What would you do?