dodo_excuse
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So, my guinea pig of 3 months passed away two days ago (9/18/14).
We are still grieving over our loss and to be honest, sometimes when I'm home alone I can hear him wheeking and scuffling around in my older brothers room but then I remember we don't have his cage anymore.
We still have his carrots, cilantro, apples, Timothy Hay, and other foods he used to eat (especially a gallon of purified water).
But what I am wondering is: How did he pass away?
He was fine a week ago. Playing like he normally does, loving the attention my older brother gave him. Ate like normal and did the bathroom like normal.
But this week, he'd been acting odd.
My younger brother told me John was walking funny; limping around the cage. John would sometimes stay in one place and just freeze there and stay silent. My older brother picked him up and usually John struggles but he looked really tired and simply looked at us with an unreadable expression. He didn't want to eat, either. Not at all. He didn't do the restroom, either. He just wasn't as active.
(Warning: The following information has a bit of a graphic description.)
Night came quick and my younger brother told me he heard John wheeking loudly at 3 in the morning but he was too sleepy so he went back to sleep.
Three hours later, he woke up and went to check on John but he wasn't out of his house. He's usually prepared to eat a carrot every morning and my younger brother then picked him up, only to notice John was as still as stone. John also had this odd stench to him and also was laying on his side inside his house.
First of all, the cage hadn't been cleaned in two weeks because we didn't have any bedding for him and we were planning to buy some more that day, too. It was the second week when we were about to buy more bedding for him. My older brother was low on money so we had no choice but to wait until Thursday came but John passed away.
My older brother had told me he took John a bath a day before and said John's nose was dripping, had a bit of eye crust and he also said he washed John's head (we'd been told not to do that but if we did, we must dry him thoroughly). Maybe, he had a cold?
But then my younger brother told me when he was holding John's body, he felt a large lump in-between John's ribs. Not to mention only one eye was open, too.
Could John have had some kind of heart disease?
Or...maybe, he'd been sick for these three months and John held it in for so long until he couldn't anymore...
Do you fellows have a clue as to how John passed away? Keep in mind, John was still pretty young.
We are still grieving over our loss and to be honest, sometimes when I'm home alone I can hear him wheeking and scuffling around in my older brothers room but then I remember we don't have his cage anymore.
We still have his carrots, cilantro, apples, Timothy Hay, and other foods he used to eat (especially a gallon of purified water).
But what I am wondering is: How did he pass away?
He was fine a week ago. Playing like he normally does, loving the attention my older brother gave him. Ate like normal and did the bathroom like normal.
But this week, he'd been acting odd.
My younger brother told me John was walking funny; limping around the cage. John would sometimes stay in one place and just freeze there and stay silent. My older brother picked him up and usually John struggles but he looked really tired and simply looked at us with an unreadable expression. He didn't want to eat, either. Not at all. He didn't do the restroom, either. He just wasn't as active.
(Warning: The following information has a bit of a graphic description.)
Night came quick and my younger brother told me he heard John wheeking loudly at 3 in the morning but he was too sleepy so he went back to sleep.
Three hours later, he woke up and went to check on John but he wasn't out of his house. He's usually prepared to eat a carrot every morning and my younger brother then picked him up, only to notice John was as still as stone. John also had this odd stench to him and also was laying on his side inside his house.
First of all, the cage hadn't been cleaned in two weeks because we didn't have any bedding for him and we were planning to buy some more that day, too. It was the second week when we were about to buy more bedding for him. My older brother was low on money so we had no choice but to wait until Thursday came but John passed away.
My older brother had told me he took John a bath a day before and said John's nose was dripping, had a bit of eye crust and he also said he washed John's head (we'd been told not to do that but if we did, we must dry him thoroughly). Maybe, he had a cold?
But then my younger brother told me when he was holding John's body, he felt a large lump in-between John's ribs. Not to mention only one eye was open, too.
Could John have had some kind of heart disease?
Or...maybe, he'd been sick for these three months and John held it in for so long until he couldn't anymore...
Do you fellows have a clue as to how John passed away? Keep in mind, John was still pretty young.
