Hello! I'm new to the forum, but I'll be sure to make this brief, I hope to post more meaningful things in the future- but this certainly caught me offguard.
This evening(It is now 1AM) I cleaned Gimli's cage, and his pooping habits seemed pretty ordinary, all relatively the same size, color, and shape- and he's not acting too different from normal. I come back a couple hours later to find a wet lump by his kibble, but that looked absolutely nothing like any of the treats that could've come from there. (it was far too big!)
For reference, I've taken pictures of his normal stool, the lump I found, and the kind of kibble he eats(Vitasmart Fortified Nutrition)- he has also been eating his hay as normal- and the only real change was that a day ago I fed him a grape. But I feel there's a chance this is unrelated. Without further ado, here are the pictures I snapped.
Odd lump paired with his average stool about the rest of the cage; only the lump was wet. It didn't seem to have a smell. It looked undigested, was dark and kind of disjointed like potting soil, and had bits of hay inside. Gimli just likes to expel wherever, and if this was kibble, that wouldn't explain the slightly smelly liquid spot(Not like a large urine spot) underneath it.
Mysterious wetspot, which left a gnarly stain.
A shot of his kibble from the container.
Now yes, this could possibly be just a soaked piece of his foot that separated, but it feels strangely unlkely, and I'd appreciate a second opinion.
On an offhand note, I have been a bad pig parent in terms of limiting Gimli's kibble consumption. Like a spoiled child, he likes to eat certain bits, and then chomp the bars of his cage until he gets "fresh" kibble with more of what he wants in it. Could habits like that cause digestive issues that may've led to this mystery problem in the first place? Thanks!
This evening(It is now 1AM) I cleaned Gimli's cage, and his pooping habits seemed pretty ordinary, all relatively the same size, color, and shape- and he's not acting too different from normal. I come back a couple hours later to find a wet lump by his kibble, but that looked absolutely nothing like any of the treats that could've come from there. (it was far too big!)
For reference, I've taken pictures of his normal stool, the lump I found, and the kind of kibble he eats(Vitasmart Fortified Nutrition)- he has also been eating his hay as normal- and the only real change was that a day ago I fed him a grape. But I feel there's a chance this is unrelated. Without further ado, here are the pictures I snapped.
Odd lump paired with his average stool about the rest of the cage; only the lump was wet. It didn't seem to have a smell. It looked undigested, was dark and kind of disjointed like potting soil, and had bits of hay inside. Gimli just likes to expel wherever, and if this was kibble, that wouldn't explain the slightly smelly liquid spot(Not like a large urine spot) underneath it.
Mysterious wetspot, which left a gnarly stain.
A shot of his kibble from the container.
Now yes, this could possibly be just a soaked piece of his foot that separated, but it feels strangely unlkely, and I'd appreciate a second opinion.
On an offhand note, I have been a bad pig parent in terms of limiting Gimli's kibble consumption. Like a spoiled child, he likes to eat certain bits, and then chomp the bars of his cage until he gets "fresh" kibble with more of what he wants in it. Could habits like that cause digestive issues that may've led to this mystery problem in the first place? Thanks!