Okay so I adopted another guinea pig after my other recently passed away. I now have 3. They all get a low calcium diet. Red or green leaf lettuce, a baby tomato, a baby carrot, and bell peppers daily/and or cucumbers and some fruit once or twice a week as a treat. I have already taken Weiss to the vet twice regarding this issue. She is a long haired Peruvian pig. She went to the vet for a uti. Since then we keep her bum shaved. But lately she has been having a lot of calcium build up (my other two pigs are fine) to the point where she wheeks when she pees again. I will be taking her to the vet however I am not sure what is causing the calcium build up. I recently bought a good water filter and have switched to bottled water ( lower calcium then my tap water) and have been giving her that. I wanted to get some peoples opinion on reverse osmosis water for guinea pigs. It kills me to feel hopeless and I don't know where she is getting all this calcium from.
Should I begin to force feed her water to try to flush out her bladder? ( I am experienced with force feeding and have the correct syringes but I just don't know if that is the right call). I can't keep bringing her to vets for the same issue over and over again. I want to find the cause and I am running out of ideas. Is reverse osmosis water safe for guinea pigs because I am planning on getting some tonight. I've done research on it and it seems okay but there's not a lot of people who give it to their pigs therefore research is limited.
Thank you everyone.
Also she gets a small amount of pellets (maybe a tablespoon) and unlimited timothy hay.
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Should I begin to force feed her water to try to flush out her bladder? ( I am experienced with force feeding and have the correct syringes but I just don't know if that is the right call). I can't keep bringing her to vets for the same issue over and over again. I want to find the cause and I am running out of ideas. Is reverse osmosis water safe for guinea pigs because I am planning on getting some tonight. I've done research on it and it seems okay but there's not a lot of people who give it to their pigs therefore research is limited.
Thank you everyone.
Also she gets a small amount of pellets (maybe a tablespoon) and unlimited timothy hay.
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