Recent content by Chun Ho

You guys are all wonderful and i've come to realize that he's gone and after all, there is no answer which can give him back to me. all my memories are still fresh and i hope you guys will never have to experience anything like this. Don't make the same mistake i've made. Loss of weight is the...

I Called The Animal Medical Center in new york city. They told me that their exotic animal specialist was off for the day and they referred me to the St Marks vet Hospital because they were alot closer to my location. I was in a panic and had not done my research on this St marks place. After...

Treatment wasn't offered, only euthanasia was. the vet misdiagnosed him saying he was going to die shortly (such as on the trip back home). 10 hours is not shortly. if i knew that fluids and antibiotics would give him a chance then yes i would have taken that option. A experienced vet knows how...

My beloved guinea pig died 2 days ago and it was very heartbreaking. im still very devastated. I know that animals love when u hold them and hug them so You can try that. i hope this can help.

I wish i could have done more research in the short time i had. I'm looking at all the NEGATIVE reviews that St Marks vet NYC has. I've talked with several experienced Vets and they're all telling me that the right course of action was to start my pig on fluids, baytril and oxygen asap. The Vets...

@Paula. only if your vet was to have tend to my pig. your vet sounds like a very well educated person who is not afraid to go out of his way to save a life. the vet at St Marks Vet in NYC showed very little interest because its a guinea pig and wouldn't carry the heavy price tag that a greater...

thank you guys for all your support! @Paula. All my vet did was weigh him and check his heartbeat and said "he's an old sick animal with an irregular heartbeat" she did not offer anything else but to euthanize him. i felt that she made no effort at all to try to save him. Would she have been...

Everything he ate was normal, we dont have anything toxic around the house that he could have gotten to. i do notice some of the rubber from the side of his water bottle missing with his teeth marks around it but i'm not sure when he ate this. i have a water bottle with 2 rubber rings around it...

can you offer some advice. i don't know how to cope with something this devasting. this is the first and only death i have experienced in my family. its so hard to talk about it because everyone i tried to ask seems to avoid the topic. why would God give him to us such happiness and suddenly...

My guinea pig male (Hercules) was 5 1/2 years old. he was very healthy and runs around, eats and does everything a normal pig does. He gets really excited when he sees someone and would squeak to get our attention and follow us around. He is so affectionate he will purr when we pet him. On...