My 12 month old female Guinea Pig has always been a very bouncy, happy little thing yet last Friday night (1st November 2013) she started acting a little bit out of characters, with being quiet and not responsive.
Saturday morning it became apparent that she had diarrhea that only lasted a matter of perhaps 24 hours, yet she stopped eating all her food and hay (and there are no vets on a weekend that don't charge anything below £400 by the looks of it - for University students at least!)
Monday she seemed like she was being a bit more responsive and wanting to explore again yet still hadn't ate a thing. And after the diarrhea she didn't go to the toilet at all, not to wee or poo.
Then Tuesday (5/11/2013) I got her an emergency appointment in the Vets who handled her rather viciously, making her squeak in pain and considering she hadn't made a real noise since Saturday night, it was rather off putting for me to experience. She pressed her tummy rather hard and then forced her way into her mouth and injected her twice with these:
1) Carprieve (0.04)
2) Metoclopramide (0.05)
I could tell she was stressed out so I told the vet to be more careful with her. Yet within half an hour of getting her back into the warm, she passed away peacefully in her cage.
However, I am struggling to understand what killed her. Her food was fine, her cage was always kept clean, her water was regularly changed and always boiled and allowed to cool before serving to make sure no bacteria was present.
Could it possibly be the stress of the illness to be taking outside to the vets who hurt her a lot? Or could it be what she was given (as the vet was too quick to bother to explain anything to me, yet that vet is now apparently known to just do things to animals for the sake of getting money from the owners which is rather worrying )(Value Vets, Hawthorn Road, Kingstanding, Birmingham, England, UK - if anybody else knows this place).
It all happened to fast within a matter of days yet I can't explain it.
Could somebody else have fed her something she shouldn't have had behind my back and caused the problems she had with her tummy?
I need some sort of justification for what happened to her because it's still a big shock and I can't seem to find any explanation whatsoever. She was literally fine up until that Friday night and nothing had been different.
Saturday morning it became apparent that she had diarrhea that only lasted a matter of perhaps 24 hours, yet she stopped eating all her food and hay (and there are no vets on a weekend that don't charge anything below £400 by the looks of it - for University students at least!)
Monday she seemed like she was being a bit more responsive and wanting to explore again yet still hadn't ate a thing. And after the diarrhea she didn't go to the toilet at all, not to wee or poo.
Then Tuesday (5/11/2013) I got her an emergency appointment in the Vets who handled her rather viciously, making her squeak in pain and considering she hadn't made a real noise since Saturday night, it was rather off putting for me to experience. She pressed her tummy rather hard and then forced her way into her mouth and injected her twice with these:
1) Carprieve (0.04)
2) Metoclopramide (0.05)
I could tell she was stressed out so I told the vet to be more careful with her. Yet within half an hour of getting her back into the warm, she passed away peacefully in her cage.
However, I am struggling to understand what killed her. Her food was fine, her cage was always kept clean, her water was regularly changed and always boiled and allowed to cool before serving to make sure no bacteria was present.
Could it possibly be the stress of the illness to be taking outside to the vets who hurt her a lot? Or could it be what she was given (as the vet was too quick to bother to explain anything to me, yet that vet is now apparently known to just do things to animals for the sake of getting money from the owners which is rather worrying )(Value Vets, Hawthorn Road, Kingstanding, Birmingham, England, UK - if anybody else knows this place).
It all happened to fast within a matter of days yet I can't explain it.
Could somebody else have fed her something she shouldn't have had behind my back and caused the problems she had with her tummy?
I need some sort of justification for what happened to her because it's still a big shock and I can't seem to find any explanation whatsoever. She was literally fine up until that Friday night and nothing had been different.
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