Behavior I need a Guinea pig behavorial expert

[Jenni_Feathers]

That's a misleading comment, at best. A pig's teeth either align properly, or they don't - and broken teeth will grow back in the same alignment. It's not like there was a chance they wouldn't grow back properly due to the break - if they hadn't been aligned properly in the first place, they wouldn't grow back in alignment, hence, he'd have needed dental trims for the rest of his life. If they were aligned properly, they would of course grow back in the same alignment. In other words, needing regular dental trims due to a misaligned jaw hasn't anything at all to do with the break and everything to do with whether a pig's teeth are aligned properly in the first place.

Broken teeth tend to grow back easily and quickly - unless there's an underlying issue, which could cause the pig's teeth to be broken more easily than normal, anyway. The bigger issue with bar chewing (although a long shot) is the potential to do harm to the jaw itself - my vet clinic had a pig come in last year with a fractured jaw because the poor creature's teeth got stuck in the bars of his cage and he thrashed so wildly trying to get loose that it broke his jaw. Ultimately, he was euthanized because there was so little hope of recovery and nothing they tried proved to be successful for one reason or another.

Sorry, I didn't realize. Thanks for the info though.

 

[Paula]

Sorry, I didn't realize. Thanks for the info though.

Oh, no, no need to apologize. Vets are a mysterious lot - they will have you believing things sometimes for no other reason than they like to hear themselves speak. I've heard a number of things myself that I took as gospel, then realized the vet was kinda full of it after researching myself.