Recent content by wheeksandwheeks

Thanks, Guinea Pig Papa and bpatters. I had also heard a few say their pigs had trouble with Aspen, but I would imagine that is rare, and nothing is 100%.(have to start somewhere) Since Aspen is cheaper than Carefresh, we will start there. While I am thinking of it, are there any generic...

Thank you, Guinea Pig Papa. I had heard from some that they find Carefresh quite dusty, though(even though it's labeled 99% dust free). And, I had been led to believe that the kiln dried pine shavings were safe as the kiln drying removed the phenols. Does it not remove all phenols, and that's...

So, some friends of mine got a baby guinea pig in January. All was fine until he started sneezing a lot. Took him to the vet, and he is on Bactrim. His lungs are clear, his condition hasn't worsened, but it hasn't gotten better. He was sneezing a lot while they were holding him. They don't...

It was both the Baytril and the fact that I was giving him red leaf lettuce-and he especially likes the tops, where it's reddest. I had totally forgotten about the lettuce. So I switched to regular leaf lettuce, and now the urine is barely off at all.

Actually, the Baytril is brown, which brown is made up of green and red, so there'd be red in that, too. Also, if you just Google something like "Baytril urine" you'll find a lot of mentions of red/pink urine after starting on Baytril-cats, bunnys, and other animals. I left a message, and am...

Eureka! Thank you, Rywen! Did your vet say why it makes the urine pink? Is there a dye in the antibiotics that does that? I swear I keep a darn good eye on my pigs(they are a few feet from me most of the day), and it seemed weird that I only saw the pink pee after he started on the...

No, I try to keep the veggies on the low end as far as calcium goes. We have hard water with a lot of calcium in it,and they get pellets, too. I haven't given them any red veggies(I think beets and cherries are some that do that). Yes, he was peeing and it came out pink. I can't get a hold...

I had to take my piggy Gibby in to the vet yesterday morning as he had a runny nose and was sneezing. He had perfectly fine the night before. The vet listened to his chest and deduced he had a respiratory infection and sent me home with some Baytril to be given for 14 days. By the late...

Hi, my name is Denise and my family adopted 2 piggies in June of this year. We read ALOT and asked a lot of questions before adopting. We lucked out by finding Manny and Gibby at the Coulee Region Humane Society in La Crosse, WI. Sadly, if you don't look carefully, you might not know that...