My Guinea pig was lethargic and I did not take him to the vet but he fixed it him self . Bless himx

So pleased Pedro is feeling better, you've been an amazing piggie parent. Thank you for all the information and advice too

Thank you so much! Now, I have gotten more knowledgeable about guinea pigs because of you! I found your Instagram and I hope Pedro will feel so much better and will play with the other guinea pigs!☺️Bless the guinea pigs and you! (Also, the little comments from the guinea pigs are so cute and funny, they make my day!)

So glad Pedro is on the mend, praying for the most adorable guinea boar on the Internet ❤

Sending a hug and snuggle to Pedro! My pleasantly plump furry potato, Buttercup, developed Bloat and GI stasis. I knew something was off as her poops got smaller then normal and turned a light tan. She also started looking like she was bulging on one side. I started EmerAid right off the bat and got her in to a vet as soon as possible. Her stasis was to the point that I had to inject the motility drug and constantly massage her gut for a week before she turned a corner. Six months later she is finally gaining weight, but there is still some blood in her urine and air in her gut. We have not been able to figure it out despite many tests. For her she gets a daily weight and I tap her sides as well. This all was triggered by her UTI medication. She has had UTI's before, but this was the first bad reaction. Watching your videos has been very helpful and reassuring. It is so true that knowing your piggies is half the battle.

Your videos on caring for sick guinea pigs are so important and helpful for guinea pig owners. It’s very hard to find experienced exotic vets (even when searching extensively) and your educational videos have helped me and I’m sure many others to care for their sick piggies. These are also helpful so that people know what to ask their exotic vets and what to expect from a good one. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experiences!

I'm so glad that you make these videos. They are so helpful. I'm extra glad that Pedro is doing better.

squeak dreams can I just say you are so kind and beautiful and you are so amazing you make me so happy when I,m angry you make me feel safe thank you

I wish I had seen this a day ago. My piggy couldn’t get into 3 local vets.. and died today. Devastated. Glad Pedro is recovering.

I can't over-emphasise the need to keep sickly piggies fed and hydrated when unwell. I recently had a disaster when all 6 of my piggies were gravely ill due to eating a poisonous plant. I had grown some spinach in a cloche but somehow another plant (possibly foxglove) managed to grow amongst the spinach without me realising. The first thing I noticed was when my youngest piggy died overnight and all the others were unable to stand, eat or drink. I braced myself thinking all of them were on their deathbeds because they were so ill. I kept syringe-feeding them and after 4-5 days all of them are back to their normal selves (another died as he refused to eat and just kept spitting out any food). I only have 4 piggies now but it could have been much worse if I hadn't kept digestive stasis at bay with round-the clock feeding. Be super careful what you feed your piggies. Foraging is all well and good until just one plant is wrongly identified or eaten by accident.

I'm so glad to see that Pedro is on the road to recovery. From my piggies to yours, celebratory nose bumps 😁

Thanks Sarah- that’s a really useful video. So pleased Pedro’s feeling better xx

Pedro Burrito! That piggy is a superstar and we love him! Thank you for really pressing this health issue with piggies - I’m passing it onto as many folk as possible even before they think of getting piggies. It’s amazing how there is so much more understanding of piggy health now and that’s in large part down to pig moms and dads like you! ❤

Thank you for such a wonderful video . Lots of great information on how to care for these precious fur babies in an emergency. Glad to hear Pedro is feeling better.

Very informative. When my elder daughter was at the end of her high school years, and for a short while after she married, she had a couple of guinea pigs; they were charming little pets, and we truly enjoyed them. Luckily, we never had any emergencies; they lived out their full expected life spans.

I hope Pedro is fine :) It's sad that we miss so much Callie content. Piggies grow up so fast (: But first priority shurely must be to have all piggies healthy and you are making a great Job at that :)

So happy Pedro is OK! ❤

This is so helpful to me, as I have recently rescued a neglected piggy from my neighbor and had no previous guinea pig knowledge. Thank you for all that you do ❤️🙏

Thanks!

Thank you for this very important video! Bless Pedro - he is such a trooper 🥰

oh I must have missed a video, I did not know that Pedro wasn't feeling well so I hope that he feels well soon. thanks so much for all your warnings concerning our piggies, you are truly a blessing for guinea pigs owners🥰🙏💞

These videos are always helpful Sarah and I am so happy that Pedro is feeling so much better😘😘...(his hair tuft gets me very time, cutie boy🐹) Seeing the x-ray was very interesting and thank you for sharing these experiences with us as I'm sure it's very worrying dealing with your poorly little boy 💖 love and hugs to you all 💕💕

Again, I’m so glad to hear that Pedro is doing better, I’m sure you are very relieved. Thank you for this very important information so we know what to do if any of this happens to our piggies.

i want to share what happened with my baby Poppy. She died about less than 2 weeks ago. When i got her, she already didnt have a huge appetite. I thought that she would eventually grow out of it or that she was just like that. She was also always humping her cage buddy and I read up alot online that that was just normal dominance behaviour. She didnt eat as much as her cage mate, didn't grow as much even when I would feed her separately. But she was growing and active. She would pop everywhere (hence her name Poppy) and zoom everywhere. She loved playing outside her cage and would even do tricks for treats. She had ovarian cancer and she started to form lumps in her body. Within the time span of 1.5weeks, the lumps grew and took over her body to the point that when she had her surgery, they couldn't save her and she passed. We didn't expect it to turn so bad so quickly and I also did not notice the signs earlier. I constantly did my research (even read up on guinea pigs for 1 year before adopting) but none told me that humping her cage mate constantly was a sign of ovarian cancer (or maybe i just didnt see it...). She started forming crusty nipples about the time we noticed the first lump (and we brought her to the vet immediately ofc) and would always be chasing and humping her cage mate. If I could have a do-over, I would've just brought her to the vet and asked about her behaviour. I honestly tried my very best and regret that there was nothing more I could do for her. Even spending more than a thousand and hundreds of dollars couldn't save her. My dear Poppy, died at 1.5years of age. RIP. Best advice for all, if you're not sure, just bring them to the vet. The internet can only tell you so much.

I love pedro ❤❤❤

So happy that Pedro is feeling better. Very informative and helpful video.

I was so worried for you and Pedro! I was looking on Instagram every hour to see how he's doing. But happy he is fine :) and I do agree that some people (ehem my "friend") wen her guinea pig gets sick she just ignoers the piggy and let it suffer... I said to her that she needs to stop this but she dosn't listen :| Hope Pedro gets 100% better! ~Beatrise

This looks important, thanks for the info

Thank you for the info! It is nice to have an idea of what to do in an emergency! Im really looking forward for part 2! I am so happy that Pedro is feeling better! He is so brave! 😊🐹

He is back to normal

Love all your video’s. So much to learn from you!! So glad Pedro is feeling better! Keep up your good work you are an awsome piggie parent!!!!

Thanks for the videos! I recently got 3 piggies your videos help me so much

Thankyou

my gunea pigs come out of hiding when i play your video's next to them (they even popcorn!)

I was worried about Pedro! I'm glad he's feeling better

Thanks a lot for the information :) im really looking forward to part 2 and thank god pedro is getting better ❤️ it breaks my heart whenever you and your guinea pigs go through hard times ❤️ say hello to piggies and hello from mine! ❤️🐹

Really helpful.thank you. Good luck Pedro!

Aloha from Hawaii!! Lovin all & learnin lots from all your videos thanx for all your HARD work & splendid dedication! I have 2 girls bout 6 1/2 years old that have been enriching me life since they were just wee little piggies: Ms Puffs, Peruvian short hair & Ms Lulu, Peruvian long hair. Ms Puff’s hair is kind of corse & she looks like Don King an American boxing promoter (but much, much cuter. We recently had a couple of health issues to deal with. Bout 2 months ago Puffs began having a mucus buildup in one eye soz off to the vet. No scratches, ulcers & no problems under the lens. Thankfully no need for icky antibiotics so he recommended using saline solution for contact lenses to be applied several X day. She was soon on the mend. 3 weeks ago Lulu developed the same problem but it looked worse. It was late on a Friday & had to wait till Monday AM to get her to our family vet soz I started with the saline straight away. Vet said the saline helped, if for no other reason than it soothed her eye. Her condition is indeed worse as she has an ulcer on the lens & a “small white elongated spot”under the lens. The amazing thing is that in less than 48 hours her eye had begun to heal! Lulu had to be put on an icky antibiotic regimen + the saline. One week later Lulu was much better! Docs (vet sought advice from a senior vet) took her off the yucky antibiotics due to the benefit/risk factor. The ulcer was nearly gone & most other thingys improving. The only other thing is the white patch which is “stable.” Neither had seen her condition before but concurred that surgery was possible but recommended against it. I asked if I should continue the saline & they approved; me regular vet said it was a good question & she wished more of her patients’ humans would ask questions. As for why the problem arose vet listed a lot but she noticed both have some bits hair loss, seen in some senior piggies, which allows bits of hay & dust to cause irritation. I felt rather dreadful when I heard the word “antibiotics” so for me the the best advice you have thus far given iz to find a vet you can TRUST and trust them! You are simply brilliant!

All sick guinea pigs should also begin support treatment w additional vitamin C. GPs need daily vitamin C everyday but when they are sick they need additional supplements of it.

thank you for the information!

I'm glad that Pedro is eating again. Do you how he got gas? Mine got gassy from breathing funny (nose problems).

I watched your video on pea eye / fatty eye and that looks like what I was concerned about with my older and quite chunky lady (3years) but there is also some red bumps under the bottom eyelid as well. I was hoping you had something you could tell me about the red lumps alongside the pea eye. Thank you and everything you're doing is so helpful. Without you I wouldn't have my girls.

Hi Saraha. I just wanted to know my guinea was sick and he had become critical Ill

I have 5rabbit and 5 guinea

I had a piggy that just had a cold and he was getting better until my mum noticed a week or two later that he wasn't eating so my mum took him to the vet and he had mites and after he came home he only survived for 2 and passed away on fathers day just before we had dinner

Thank you so much squeak dreams I have my Guinea pig for a couple of months now and when I was picking up my Guinea pigs poop of of his lap time cover it was oddly squishy and normally it would be hard (not I didn’t touch it with my hand) can you please tell me and help me

Squeak dreams pls help So earlier I was brushing my two guinea pigs I was brushing Taylor and I heard a knot so I checked and she had a small bald patch with a red scabby bit in it what does this mean? I told my mum and she said she probably scratched herself I looked it up on Google but she said it doesn't matter what do I do!?😭

Sarah, what editing app do you use? ( i'm thinking about getting a youtube channel)

I can't wait for part 2, I recently lost my precious 'baby piggy', she was a bit over a year old and lost so much weight despite eating a lot she ended up being just a skeleton at 291 grams in the end with very mushy poops and the vet wasn't much help. Basically just survived on love in the end. That was 2 weeks ago and this week we lost 2 more from the same thing out of 11 piggies although they weighed a bit over 400grams when they went. We have another piggy who looks sick with the same thing and I'm hoping the advice will help, I'm not sure what to do they're kept safe in a big outdoor enclosure and keep eating but just keep loosing weight and get very thirsty, in the space of a week they look half their size and it's painful for them to poop. :(

Sarah, can you please share both parts on your Facebook page please? When I share the link on my FB PF page it is just text, no picture to catch people's eyes. Thanks. 💕

I want to get some guinea pigs for me and my son. But im really nervous now. Since they can get so sick. Idk what to do

I have three Guinea pigs called Cunk Chocolate Chip

Sarah's I am feeding him the way you do but I am not knowing what probiotic to givevin India. We get the gripe water of Woodward's but not the same medicine. I lost my baby Lia just like this and the vet gave wrong medic by saying she got liver problems but she to had gi statis. Now the same issue is going on. So I am scared to take my another guinea squeak to the vet

I have a question do l need to bring a small cage to put two Guinea pigs in . Or just hold the two Guinea pigs by Hand ? Also thank you for posting this video l learned a lot ! 😁

Thank you so much!! Just a few minutes ago I noticed my guinea pig making weird sounds which may be a respiratory issue 😕 Will bring her to the vet and this video helped me so much 😁 just wanted to know can guinea pig illness be transferred to humans?

Hi. I'm wondering if you have ever had issues with transporting any of your piggies to and from the vets? I have a piggies who seems traumatised when we had to take him. Loud scared squeaks on the way there and low upset sounds on the way back. Once home he his in his favourite hidie for a full day before I could encourage back out. Is this normal?

I have 2, 2 year old, rescue boys that were a part of 4H. I've had them a week and they hate me I think lol... will they ever warm up and bond with me?

Hi. Today my guinea pig started to move foward and back for a couple seconds. He usually does not do this. Does anyone know why he is doing this? It does not really look like a sezure but i cant figure out what it is

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HiiI hope Pedro will feel better very soon, but I have a question. The island I live on, Mauritius, doesn’t have vets that take Guinea pigs, they are not really helpful and dont have many experience like u suggested. There are quite a lot of piggies here. I’m still looking around and I will still till I find a good one and I do many researches and I subscribed to u so for now they are fine but I know that one day they will need a vet and I love them too much to let them down. Before adopting them I thought I had the vet but I didn’t and the vet I thought would take them do not and they were quite a lot in a tiny cage so I had to save some and give them a better space and everything. So what should I do about that? And am I doing the right thing?

What is a normal poop meant to look like? my piggy’s poop has looked normal in shape but more shiny/wet?? she poops loads though?

Hi Sarah just curious how many times do you give your piggies floor time?

You can insure guinea pigs?

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The sad truth about piggies is once they are sick, they probably won’t make it.

Thanks!