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Friends.....Starsky and Hutch
will help us explain the respiratory process in guinea pigs
it is very easy for a guinea pig to catch a cold, and we have to be very
careful with temperature changes in winter and also
in summer.
If you come closer, you can see
how the respiratory process starts, it normally starts
with a slight conjunctivitis...eyes are
no longer the round shape they should be
you start to see watery eyes
and a clear signal of a conjunctivitis
the eye swells up and turns a bit red and starts to
segregate tears.
At this point,
eyes are more closed
and the animal has
photophobia, in other words, does not tolerate the light.
If this process starts and we don't treat the animal, this
degenerates
to a very ill guinea pig
As you can see here with Hutch,
the eyes have a slight tear and have a more slanted shape than normal,
but the most serious is the amount of mucus that the animals has on
the nose.
It is very important to go to the vet immediately, specially if we are talking abount baby
guinea pigs.
It is also important to register the weight of our pet, these are
animals that we should weigh daily, or at least once a week
to see the evolution of the weight, the ideal is weigh them often,
if you don't want to do so daily, then once a week is ok
because these animals
that already have this running nose
don't eat correctly, as they're not hungry
because they don't breath properly
and they can't smell the food, so they're not sure if the food is good or not.
They discriminate the smells through their breathing system
step by step, how will we do it? The normal feed for a guinea pig
is this one that you can see here, and it
comes with a variety of
ingredients, is rich in vitamin C
but when the animal starts to have these breathing problems, we must immediately
feed them with a
specific feed for
guinea pigs with respiratory problems
and in this case Hutch the black guinea pig
when he doesn't even want to
eat his feed, because he is not able to smell it, we will prepare
a special
feed, mixing
powder feed,
The CONVALESCENCE, with water
and we will force her to eat with the syringe
as I have said, you have to make a weight registration
so first, we will weigh
a normal guinea pig
which for
a month and a half old, weighs
as you can see
240 gramms
and now we will weigh Hutch
and you can see that he only weighs
170 gramms
even if it seems very little
if we compare it with human weight,
its like Starsky weighs 70 kilos which is more or less the normal weight
and Hutch weighs
about 40 kilos.
So, Starsky and Hutch say goodbye
reminding you to visit your veterinary often
and also warn you about the sudden temperature changes and if you
have a guinea pig that starts
sneezing, we have to take them away from the others. Come on friends!!!
lets say goodbye!!!!