Hello
I've registered to this forum in the hope someone might have an answer.
My guinea pig, a 2.5 year old male, eats and drinks extremely little. I've taken him to the vet. He kept him overnight and took x-ray pictures. While there he did eat hay and some pellet food and the x-rays showed nothing abnormal.
I bought some of the vets hay and food in the hopes that he just didn't like what we gave him anymore, to no avail. He acts very strange when he tries to eat, he throws his head back like he has trouble swallowing, I filmed this and showed it to the vet, but again he found nothing abnormal.
The vet suggested it might be a dominance issue (he has a cage mate, a male that's about 3 months younger than him). We're going to try and separate them next, but I'm afraid they'll get depressed or something if they're separated. Would putting in something see through help with that? Like a mesh or something.
I'm really starting to get frustrated here, I don't want to lose him.
I've registered to this forum in the hope someone might have an answer.
My guinea pig, a 2.5 year old male, eats and drinks extremely little. I've taken him to the vet. He kept him overnight and took x-ray pictures. While there he did eat hay and some pellet food and the x-rays showed nothing abnormal.
I bought some of the vets hay and food in the hopes that he just didn't like what we gave him anymore, to no avail. He acts very strange when he tries to eat, he throws his head back like he has trouble swallowing, I filmed this and showed it to the vet, but again he found nothing abnormal.
The vet suggested it might be a dominance issue (he has a cage mate, a male that's about 3 months younger than him). We're going to try and separate them next, but I'm afraid they'll get depressed or something if they're separated. Would putting in something see through help with that? Like a mesh or something.
I'm really starting to get frustrated here, I don't want to lose him.