You may not need hypotheticals, but you need to understand that this website, and our posts, become references for others. This website is flooded with children on a daily basis looking for advice, and hypotheticals help younger crowds understand distinctions, at times. I'm sorry if you took...

They are, but just because they are contagious does not mean that they will be transmitted. If your sibling/parent/child is sick do you go and pop antibiotics?

Which is why you wait for a sign of illness to show or your vet sees a sign of illness. How can one deem an antibiotic necessary with zero sign of illness?

Vets all differ in their opinions, such is the nature of all medicine. With many animals an unnecessary antibiotic treatment wouldn't be an issue. However, with our piggies, they are just far too reliant upon their gastric function to warrant prophylactic antibiotics. Imagine having to force...

Yes, definitely not the case that they will all be given antibiotics. That would almost assuredly cause more harm than good. It could be prudent to have them all seen, but if they aren't showing signs of illness, treating them with antibiotics would be a mistake.

Pigs can have Children's Benadryl only. From a very reliable GuineaLynx source: See here for more info: http://www.guinealynx.info/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37522&highlight=diphenhydramine

The vet should perform an x-ray to confirm heart disease. If heart disease is found, it can be treated with a variety of drugs, I believe Lasix being the most common. You also should start reading the following, it has lots of info about heart pigs: http://www.guinealynx.info/heart.html

First and foremost, Frank looks quite regal with his crest! That vitamin C powder seems like it would be difficult to dose the proper amount. It says on the bottle that it is 2500mg of vitamin C per serving. Guinea pigs need 1/100th of that amount, 25mg daily. I don't know what the "serving...

Do not bathe a guinea pig that has a severe mite infestation, it will cause a lot of pain to your pig. Mites can flare up when a guinea pig is put under stress, and the moving about during adoption can definitely set this off. Mites are invisible to the naked eye and mite infections are barely...

What amount of lettuce are you feeding daily, and have you ever tried completely eliminating veggies from her diet? I have noticed that my boar will get wet, soft poops if fed too much lettuce. All I can say is good luck and keep it up! If she maintains weight and is happy being back home with...

I was so excited to see that update and all the good poops, only to find this picture at the bottom. Bummed for you, big time. What has her diet been? Did anything change between the good poop and the... well... mess?

An apparently knowledgable user on GuineaLynx, Josephine, said the following about Orbax: Quote pulled from the original post in the following thread: http://www.guinealynx.info/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2111 The fact that it doesn't touch any Pseudomonas is enough for me to not bother wasting...

Are her feet swollen and/or crusty? If so, she may have bumblefoot, which is painful and requires treatment. Check the following link and see if you pig may be suffering from this: http://www.guinealynx.info/pododermatitis.html Can you post a picture of her suspect feet?

Buttercup needs to be much more proud of herself! I wonder if, by what your vet said, there could be something lodged in a section of her cecum? Do you happen to have a copy of the xray that you could post? It would be really great to have a future reference if one of us happens to see...

I got mine from Sprouts, a local "farmer's market"-esque grocery store. I would imagine you can get what I posted, or something similar, from your local pharmacy/any store with a health section. Like I said, as long as it is lactose-free, any generic acidophilus will work. Plain acidophilus...

Here is my favorite probiotic: Acidophilus & Probiotics - Acidophilus - Strawberry Apple Liquid Acidophilus Probiotic These are soy based, which is important if you are looking for liquid probiotics. Give probiotics 2 hours after antibiotic administration. An extra daily serving won't hurt...

If he has a UTI then antibiotics will be the key. What are you currently housing Moogle on? To prevent future UTIs you could change bedding more frequently, move hideys around the cage daily so that Moogle isn't sitting in urine, and you could offer a little unsweetened cranberry juice daily...

Glad that she is improving and putting on weight! Maybe her leg is still bothering her, which is why she is favoring it? I had a pig with a leg injury not nearly this severe keep off her foot for two weeks, so I would imagine a broken leg would take a bit longer. Best of luck and thanks for...

I would consider moving him back to a different kind of bedding. I just got two silkie fosters who were getting really wet butts from not moving around their fleece cage much. I switched them to pine shavings last week and they are much drier. I would also recommend you keep hair around his...

One would hope! It all depends on the infection, but you should see improvement within a few days of use. If you go a week and nothing changes with them I would let the vet know. They should generally be pretty healthy. In the past year I've only had 2 vet visits for my 4 pigs and many...