Mu-Xi Mu would not eat her cucumber today. I weighed her and she's 100 grams down from her usual weight. I am out of hand feeding formula and end up with my only option being crushed pellets soaked in warm water, and it's just not cooperating with the syringe. I've gotten a little into her mouth and I know this because she'll start chewing. I can try to leave after boyfriend gets back from the university for the day and I'm done with the kids, and go get some baby food. The idea is that if they don't have anything to eat they will go into GI stasis and chances of treating it, at least in an elderly pig is very low. She'll be turning 6 in August. I haven't had any issues since my last guinea pig died over 2 years ago at age 8. She was older than all my cats.
So I'm up buttcrack dawn early tomorrow because the local vet cannot see her until Monday, so I'm driving my Mu Mu to Virginia. What is normally a 50 minute drive may turn into an hour and a half due to traffic. The local vet would have been a half hour away, but what can you do? And since it's a specialist it's $80 for the appointment. My friend thinks I'm being unreasonable because it's guinea pig and I just think to myself guinea pig or not, that he wouldn't have rallied behind spending ten grand on the cat since we've moved here either.
I think Mu is in this pic. She's the little black potato.
So I'm up buttcrack dawn early tomorrow because the local vet cannot see her until Monday, so I'm driving my Mu Mu to Virginia. What is normally a 50 minute drive may turn into an hour and a half due to traffic. The local vet would have been a half hour away, but what can you do? And since it's a specialist it's $80 for the appointment. My friend thinks I'm being unreasonable because it's guinea pig and I just think to myself guinea pig or not, that he wouldn't have rallied behind spending ten grand on the cat since we've moved here either.
I think Mu is in this pic. She's the little black potato.
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