I have an appointment for adoption in April, I plan on buying everything there to support the rescue. I have my heart set on two girls. I’m so excited to meet you all and I hope y’all like cupcakes!
Always sound advise. This is very good information as we know guinea pigs can hide how they feel, but they can't hide their breathing so this issues can be a very good way to gauge health and the need for a vet appointment .
This was so informative. I checked my pigs right after watching this and found one of my girls breathing differently than the other two. She was breathing like Fyre was the last time we saw her (head rocking a little and the breaths more pronounced on her sides.) Never noticed it before and I don’t know how long she’s been doing it. She’s close to 6 now so I don’t know if it’s something or simply age-related. I have a trusted cavy vet so I’ll be setting up a visit. Thank you so much for posting. Excellent information. ❤️
Did you notice that both the breed are similar to the hard breathing? I have the same looking pig as the white and redish brown colors. He is so cute with the most personality. I was able to finally get my Santa Fe piggies adopted. I give you props Saskia.... For the amount of Guinea Pigs you care for. The time and cost to each life is priceless to us but, in reality is not cheap if you care for them like you do!
This was so helpful! I have two piggies and I have always thought that their breath was pretty fast. But this video assured me that their rate of breath is normal. Thank you, Saskia! :)
My buddy is going to the vet tomorrow because I noticed his harder breathing. The good thing is that he eats and drinks and stands up to see you. What actually made me check/notice was that he isn't as rambunctious as usual. He's not lethargic either. When I usually hold him well...he's a pain in the ass and lately he just easier to hold.
Irene - totally didn't thank you yet for the huge bag of flakes in the package you sent!! OMG all the piggies love it so much, such a treat for them. Thank you, so very sweet!
I rescued 2 females on Monday. 3 or 4 months old I think. I am their 4th home already. They are quiet and seem healthy. In a smaller cage for this week but tomorrow we get coroplast, ect to make a crate from wire squares 2 x 6 with a ramp and a second level 2 x 2. We will have room to rescue other girls if necessary. They’ve had limited vegetables but have put on weight this week. I have material to make them fleece liners and accessory. I’m so excited. Thank you for all you do
As a former Respiratory Therapist who now forgot much of what I did know, thanks for showing the respiration of piggies. I really liked the before and after shots so the breathing can be contrasted in Fyre and the others.
So sad for star and the other older piggie that was in this video. From my experience not much can be done to help them and the kindest thing is often putting them to sleep but if this is the case at least they wont be suffering any more I guess 😭 xxx
Saskia, I am so grateful for you and how informative you are. My husband and I are relatively new to this, and we're learning as we go, researching like crazy, to make sure our herd is safe and healthy. Thank you for doing what you do.
Thanks Saskia, another great video. I watch my girls breathing all the time, and I listen to them on the guinea pig phone as well. You know it woukd be awesome if you could somehow get a recording of a good vs bad sounding lungs. Maybe Dr Kanfer can help with that.
Thank you so much! This was super helpful I was worried that my piggies were all sick cause of their breathing but this helped me see it was normal. Thank youu
I had some guineas with heart desease. When this piggies looks like this they haven't much time to live. Often the owner sees it to late. In a live i talked to saskia about that. Here is the standard that guineas become no health check when they looks healthy. After this conversation i learned for me that i will make health checks then too in future especially for the heart issues. Maybe it would be treat earlier and the piggies can live longer without this hard breathing.
Thank you so much for this video! My Charlie is being treated for a persistent rattle and I'm so afraid to find him in labored breathing that I sometimes imagine it. This video with normal breathing examples really helps. Thanks a lot.
Hi, Saskia! We have a young guinea pig (around 2 months) that we rescued from our neighbor's cat a little under two weeks ago. Her breathing looks like Nicoletta's. She kind of has that panting breathing and her head bobs slightly. I was debating wether or not to take her to the vet, but I think I definitely will now. Thank you for posting such helpful information, I couldn't find this anywhere else. :)
It’s just like with humans: watching the work of breathing. What is the normal respiratory rate of an adult pig? Thank you Saskia! I’ve learned so much from you which I’m passing onto my UK piggy pals. Lots of love 💕
I would be so much more than willing to fly from Florida to LA just to have one of you look at one of my girls who has had breathing problems since I got her. She's still under a year old and I've ruled out respiratory and allergies. You guys aren't vets, but you've seen a lot more than most of the vets around my area. I feel like if you can tell by looking at her what may be wrong I can finally go to a vet and do something to help her. She eats and acts very healthy, loves to run around. It's just heartbreaking to hear her sniffling and sneezing for unknown reasons.
Thank you for this informative video. One of my piggies breathes a bit like the fluffy cream piggy at 5:21. I have also found an information sheet about heart disease by your vet online and that would explain quite a few issues my piggy has, including her chronic 'allergies' that won't go away, even on fleece bedding and with dust-free hay, and her pododermatitis. She has never been very active, but as I'd been told her breed (Swiss Teddy) is much calmer and lazier than other breeds, I hadn't thought it was a symptom of anything. I'll start looking for a vet here in The Netherlands that is knowledgeable about heart disease in piggies.
I've never thought of that! 🤔 I am always checking their breathing but didn't realize it actually tells something even without any odd noises and stuff. 😳 This is good to know!! I better go check my babies. ❤️
My ~3 month old boy’s head bobs as he breathes. He stayed overnight in emergency on oxygen about a month ago and we gave him antibiotics for a URI. Even after the 10 days on treatment, his head still bobs. Took him to his regular vet who said he doesn’t notice anything bad when listening to his breath. Told us to change his bedding from aspen shavings to fleece. Hoping it clears up from that because I hate seeing him uncomfortable:(
This was a very helpful video. I took my 3 year old boar to the vet because I didn't like how his body looked when he was breathing. He was eating and drinking fine at the time but the vet said he had pneuomonia. He went on 2 weeks of antibiotics and recovered! 😊 Thank you for the helpful tips. I rather take my guinea pigs to the vet asap even if they seem fine. You just never know how well they hide their illness until it's too late.
My guinea pig was breathing loud last night and I heard it again just now but he seems happy and energetic and it's usually when he's excited for food or something. I was crying because I don't want to see him sick and I can't afford taking him to the vet right now.
Super important topic thanks for sharing this! I lost a young guinea only 6 months old who had pneumonia and my local vet missed this sign and by the time I found an exotic vet who was more specialized it was too late. He only had 10% of his lungs and couldn’t make it through treatment.
Do you think one should video your piggies breathe to show the vet? When you bring them in they will not be calm so the vet will not see what you observed while the piggies were calm. Also you look great in this morning light. 🎥
My guinea pig died February 13. He wasn’t breathing too good and he was 1 degree colder then it should be. His heart wasn’t beating well, and it wasn’t beating fast enough.
This is such an interesting and informative video! I've saved it to watch again if/when I need a reference for what good breathing looks like. I know when Pepper got Congestive Heart Failure I'd taken her to the vet because her breathing was so hard compared to my other piggies. It is important you pointed out what is normal for Fire because I know any pre-existing condition can cause breathing issues. One of my girls breathes a bit harder than the others and it's because her lungs have some kind of defect my vet says she was likely born with. I watch her breathing closely because although my vet assured me, twice, that it's not any type of lung cancer I'm a bit paranoid it might be.
Just lost one of my boys this past week... He seemed fine up until the night he passed. He was breathing very quickly around 4 pm and was shaking with the head bob. All the vets around me were closed or were not taking piggies which was very frustrating to me because nowadays it's like I can't find any vet that will take me. So after a few hours, he passed away. The internet was suggesting pneumonia but idk how he could have gotten that. All my other piggies are fine and my piggy that passed had no symtoms until that night. Are runny eyes a symtom of heart failure? He didn't have that until his breathing started. Thanks.
Great video! I always stop and watch guinea pigs breath at the pet shop whenever I am in there so I can alert the staff of sick piggies. It's shocking how many I've found that way. Also, random question: has the vet ever recommended nebulizer treatments for piggies with chronic respiratory problems? If so did you find them effective?
My guinea pig, when she was young, had a uri and there was no fluid in her lungs. The antibiotics helped, but now, every now and then it's like her sinuses bother her and it's like she has a runny nose. And her sides breathe like how you showed. Then after a few minutes she'll be fine. I usually turn on the humidifer when I notice her having problems.
One of my boys is breathing like this. I have no vets experienced with piggies in my area, I took him in a few months ago to be told he was perfectly healthy and it was probably just spring allergies (he sounds slightly wheezy with each breath). Can anything be done to help piggies who get like this? Antibiotics or anything?
I need help quick my guinea pig is breathing weird and I can’t take her to the vet till the morning please help what should I do I think she has a URI what do I do till I can get her to the vet
Saskia, could you do a small update on this showing normal breathing for skinny pigs? I feel you always see some movement with the hairless babies. Also, is it possible for guinea pigs to snore?
Excellent video, very helpful. My 2 yr old Bailey is happy and healthy but I have had a few piggies over the years that had respiratory problems and the breathing difficulty is heartbreaking. Baytril was what the vet gave but it didn’t always cure them. I follow your recommendations now. More medical related comparisons please! Also how about a video about what NOT to feed. I worry about parasites on outside grass or is this not really an issue? Thank you.
I love all your videos but I have two Guinea pigs that I can’t have any any more but if you can get them they have to stay together they are brother and sister
Poor Star, can she be on Lasik to help her body flush the excess fluids? I ask because I went through it and I relate to that Precious girl. Also, I thought for sure that the piggie with the whole in his nose would have been a little better by now. I expected the hole to close up some by now. Does the hole go all the way through her palate and into her mouth or is it only in the nasal passage?
Fyre has a hole in the bones of her face, likely caused by a trauma of some sort. It will not get better. The vet flushed the area and cleaned it up real good, she has been on multiple antibiotics and that did help, the mucus is no longer yellow in color.
@@LosAngelesGuineaPigRescue as for Fyre, i didn't know the whole was through the bone. I'm not familiar with the facial struction as far as what's bone and what might be just cartilage or tissue. So I had hoped her skin would eventually close over the opening. What she needs is reconstructive surgery with a tiny titanium plate over the hole. If cost were no object and the success rate was 100% then of course but tgen reality hits. I understand, she'll just have to be the special needs piggie that needs helps picking her nose 😉 and I apologize if you did cover this in a video, I rely heavily on subtitles but they aren't always 100% accurate. Hopefully Star can get something to relieve the congestion. I really know how she feels, trying to breath but your lungs won't expand and your heart can't pump for the same reason. It's like an elephant is sitting on your chest. I know
I'm wondering if maybe some engineers, possibly at a nearby college, could help fyre. I know amazing things can be done with 3D printing. For example, a tortoise with a crushed shell was given a new 3D-printed shell to survive. Do you think perhaps they could print a custom plug for fyre? if they could close that hole, she probably wouldn't have that mucous problem. Just a thought that came to me.
I have 2 piggies and one is very confident and the other is so so scared :’( she developed ring worm the first week and I guess I didn’t know how to manage her illness and also tame her properly, so now she is super super scared all the time :’( The further her treatment goes along the more suspicious and scared she is, refuses to eat from my hands anymore bc she knows that cucumber is in the hand of the scary giant who had to hold her to put cream on her eye 😭 poor thing has medical trauma :’D She will breathe very fast and I figured that was that she is scared? Eventually it slows down but that fast breathing freaks me out :’) they sneeze a lot too and I took them to the vet and he said their lungs were good and they had no boogers so he did not suspect an infection. I am so suspicious anyway 😭 (And ... I’m not sure how the doctor could hear her lungs she’s so fidgety!!) Your videos (this and all of them!) have helped me calm my new pig mommy fears 😅watching my Penelope I can see hat yeah her breathing is not laboured, except for when she is terrified and breathes fast :’D Penelope, Persephone and I say thank you and whee whee whee! ❤️ (We’re from LA too! Well close by - Acton haha)
I have an appointment for adoption in April, I plan on buying everything there to support the rescue. I have my heart set on two girls. I’m so excited to meet you all and I hope y’all like cupcakes!
Can't wait to help you find them
Oohhh cupcakes!!! Are you making them? If so any chance you make them without diary? See you soon!!!!
I planned on getting vegan cupcakes! And gluten free for Scotty! Getting them from sprinkles
Scotty's Animals I’m so excited I’ve been watching both your channel and this one for months so I can be fully prepared! I’ve learned a lot!
@@moonlightmermaid671 wow!!
If I ever go to California you are the first place I want to see
LOL
I hope Star isn’t in any pain :( poor lil old lady. Sending her love. She is super pretty.
02:38 Listen Up Y'all!
Star is one of the most beautiful piggies I’ve ever seen
Seeing good examples of breathing is so reassuring. Thank you for taking the time to do this!
Even though itmight change, its so nice seeing a video with no dislikes 🙃
I'll change that for you 😉
In the past, I have accidentally disliked a video just by fumbling over the screen, so it's not always a judgement! 🤦
@@christinescorey7406 That's true! I've done same!
Beautiful models for a very important topic.
Always sound advise. This is very good information as we know guinea pigs can hide how they feel, but they can't hide their breathing so this issues can be a very good way to gauge health and the need for a vet appointment .
This was so informative. I checked my pigs right after watching this and found one of my girls breathing differently than the other two. She was breathing like Fyre was the last time we saw her (head rocking a little and the breaths more pronounced on her sides.) Never noticed it before and I don’t know how long she’s been doing it. She’s close to 6 now so I don’t know if it’s something or simply age-related. I have a trusted cavy vet so I’ll be setting up a visit. Thank you so much for posting. Excellent information. ❤️
At 6 yrs old we can expect age related issues for sure that is a grand age Robert 😀
Did you notice that both the breed are similar to the hard breathing? I have the same looking pig as the white and redish brown colors. He is so cute with the most personality. I was able to finally get my Santa Fe piggies adopted. I give you props Saskia.... For the amount of Guinea Pigs you care for. The time and cost to each life is priceless to us but, in reality is not cheap if you care for them like you do!
My guinea pig is white with tan ears..she has breathing problems..What would be causing it..I don't use wood chipping only news paper, straw and hay.
This was so helpful! I have two piggies and I have always thought that their breath was pretty fast. But this video assured me that their rate of breath is normal. Thank you, Saskia! :)
My buddy is going to the vet tomorrow because I noticed his harder breathing. The good thing is that he eats and drinks and stands up to see you. What actually made me check/notice was that he isn't as rambunctious as usual. He's not lethargic either. When I usually hold him well...he's a pain in the ass and lately he just easier to hold.
Hey! I hope your little one is okay! I’m having the same symptoms with my skinny pig. What did your vet say/end up doing? TIA!
@@Samadams1123 unfortunately he passed away. It was congestive heart failure.
Dang, this is what's going on with my girl. 😢
very interesting subject, saskia. you are a true specialist. thank you so much. my zwergi is such a hardbreather, i think.
Irene - totally didn't thank you yet for the huge bag of flakes in the package you sent!! OMG all the piggies love it so much, such a treat for them. Thank you, so very sweet!
@@LosAngelesGuineaPigRescue happy piggies means happy irene. its a pleasure for me, to bless you. you are an angel. i often think of you.
🌟, hang in there girl! We love you!
I am sorry to hear. That you lost fyre. She was a sweet girl. Thank you for caring for her. Many blessings. Love from fan.
I rescued 2 females on Monday. 3 or 4 months old I think. I am their 4th home already. They are quiet and seem healthy. In a smaller cage for this week but tomorrow we get coroplast, ect to make a crate from wire squares 2 x 6 with a ramp and a second level 2 x 2. We will have room to rescue other girls if necessary. They’ve had limited vegetables but have put on weight this week. I have material to make them fleece liners and accessory. I’m so excited. Thank you for all you do
Poor Star and good Fyre had that giant plug taken out! I'm so happy the two are with you
As a former Respiratory Therapist who now forgot much of what I did know, thanks for showing the respiration of piggies. I really liked the before and after shots so the breathing can be contrasted in Fyre and the others.
I want to see how you take that dried up mucus out of the guinea pig. Can you make a video specifically on that please?
I believe she did one on her already??🤷🏻♀️
It's in the intake video when they got Fire. I think it was titled "hole in her head" or something like that.
So sad for star and the other older piggie that was in this video. From my experience not much can be done to help them and the kindest thing is often putting them to sleep but if this is the case at least they wont be suffering any more I guess 😭 xxx
That poor baby with the heart problems 💔. I hope shes in hospice right now so she can be comfortable til the end 😭.
Thank you Saskia ❤️
Thanks for all the examples - educational and cute!
Saskia you are such a lovely beautiful person inside and out xxx
That is really informative. Thank you! Any information that can help my babies live a longer and healthier life is appreciated! 😀
Thank you so much Saskia! I've had guinea pigs for many years but still every time you drop a video I learn something new.
Thank you Saskia, good luck to the beautiful Star and Fyre, Paisley's foot looks amazing! All stunning models, thank you cuties, much love 😍 xxx
Thank you.. As always people please donate to the Guinea pig rescue 🙂🙂
Saskia, I am so grateful for you and how informative you are. My husband and I are relatively new to this, and we're learning as we go, researching like crazy, to make sure our herd is safe and healthy. Thank you for doing what you do.
As always, so informative. Thank you very much! I don't go any where else now for valuable information! Straight forward, no ego, and no nonsense 🙂👍
Thanks Saskia, another great video. I watch my girls breathing all the time, and I listen to them on the guinea pig phone as well. You know it woukd be awesome if you could somehow get a recording of a good vs bad sounding lungs. Maybe Dr Kanfer can help with that.
agreed!
Great to see so many examples and so many beautiful pigs. Thanks for your wonderful work.
Love you guys
i wish i was closer because i absolutely would adopt paisley. i just fell in love with her
Aww Star is so beautiful ♥️
Thank you so much! This was super helpful I was worried that my piggies were all sick cause of their breathing but this helped me see it was normal. Thank youu
I had some guineas with heart desease. When this piggies looks like this they haven't much time to live. Often the owner sees it to late. In a live i talked to saskia about that. Here is the standard that guineas become no health check when they looks healthy. After this conversation i learned for me that i will make health checks then too in future especially for the heart issues. Maybe it would be treat earlier and the piggies can live longer without this hard breathing.
Thank you so much for this video! My Charlie is being treated for a persistent rattle and I'm so afraid to find him in labored breathing that I sometimes imagine it. This video with normal breathing examples really helps. Thanks a lot.
Hi, Saskia! We have a young guinea pig (around 2 months) that we rescued from our neighbor's cat a little under two weeks ago. Her breathing looks like Nicoletta's. She kind of has that panting breathing and her head bobs slightly. I was debating wether or not to take her to the vet, but I think I definitely will now. Thank you for posting such helpful information, I couldn't find this anywhere else. :)
first! haha I love your videos! they are very informative and helpful
It’s just like with humans: watching the work of breathing. What is the normal respiratory rate of an adult pig? Thank you Saskia! I’ve learned so much from you which I’m passing onto my UK piggy pals. Lots of love 💕
I would be so much more than willing to fly from Florida to LA just to have one of you look at one of my girls who has had breathing problems since I got her. She's still under a year old and I've ruled out respiratory and allergies. You guys aren't vets, but you've seen a lot more than most of the vets around my area. I feel like if you can tell by looking at her what may be wrong I can finally go to a vet and do something to help her. She eats and acts very healthy, loves to run around. It's just heartbreaking to hear her sniffling and sneezing for unknown reasons.
Thank you for this informative video. One of my piggies breathes a bit like the fluffy cream piggy at 5:21. I have also found an information sheet about heart disease by your vet online and that would explain quite a few issues my piggy has, including her chronic 'allergies' that won't go away, even on fleece bedding and with dust-free hay, and her pododermatitis. She has never been very active, but as I'd been told her breed (Swiss Teddy) is much calmer and lazier than other breeds, I hadn't thought it was a symptom of anything.
I'll start looking for a vet here in The Netherlands that is knowledgeable about heart disease in piggies.
Both my guinea pigs breathe like that. I got them as rescues and I don’t have enough to pay for a vet visit 😭
I've never thought of that! 🤔 I am always checking their breathing but didn't realize it actually tells something even without any odd noises and stuff. 😳 This is good to know!! I better go check my babies. ❤️
My ~3 month old boy’s head bobs as he breathes. He stayed overnight in emergency on oxygen about a month ago and we gave him antibiotics for a URI. Even after the 10 days on treatment, his head still bobs. Took him to his regular vet who said he doesn’t notice anything bad when listening to his breath. Told us to change his bedding from aspen shavings to fleece. Hoping it clears up from that because I hate seeing him uncomfortable:(
This is such a helpful video, thank you Saskia
This is so helpful. Thank you Saskia. 😍
Poor Fyre
This was a very helpful video. I took my 3 year old boar to the vet because I didn't like how his body looked when he was breathing. He was eating and drinking fine at the time but the vet said he had pneuomonia. He went on 2 weeks of antibiotics and recovered! 😊 Thank you for the helpful tips. I rather take my guinea pigs to the vet asap even if they seem fine. You just never know how well they hide their illness until it's too late.
My guinea pig was breathing loud last night and I heard it again just now but he seems happy and energetic and it's usually when he's excited for food or something. I was crying because I don't want to see him sick and I can't afford taking him to the vet right now.
Great topic, very important, good on you. Doglets and kittahs too.
My little girl's chest would palpitate like that, but only after she made like 7 popcorn laps around our dining room table. She was also an older lady
Hi Saskia. Very informative video. Did learn a lot. Thanks for sharing and greetings from the Netherlands.
Fantastic video! How did you know she had that plug in her nose, and how do you remove it? Thank you for your work! 🤗
Super important topic thanks for sharing this! I lost a young guinea only 6 months old who had pneumonia and my local vet missed this sign and by the time I found an exotic vet who was more specialized it was too late. He only had 10% of his lungs and couldn’t make it through treatment.
I'm so sorry to hear that. I guess little animals don't have much in reserve, so when it goes wrong, it really goes wrong. 🙁
Thanks alot .I learnt alot from. your video about guniea pigs .i just lost one of them due to heavy breathing
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Great video, thank you Saskia! That was super helpful!
My senior pig Cadbury always lets me know when he needs his cbd cream when he puffs a bit. ❤️
Thank you so much for the informative video x
Thank you so much for these videos. I’ve learned so much!
Super informative video once again! I always learn something new from you, Saskia!
Greetings from Ohio!👋🏻😄
One of my boy piggies is battling pneumonia. His breathing has gotten better since he started azithromycin but it sounded just horrible. 😢
Hop he gets well soon
@@andreiamartins7934 Me too!!
you are so awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for all the information!! Make more wonderful videos.!
Do you think one should video your piggies breathe to show the vet? When you bring them in they will not be calm so the vet will not see what you observed while the piggies were calm. Also you look great in this morning light. 🎥
I agree, that would be wise!
My guinea pig died February 13. He wasn’t breathing too good and he was 1 degree colder then it should be. His heart wasn’t beating well, and it wasn’t beating fast enough.
I'm so sorry. Sometimes there's just nothing you can do except keep them as comfortable and safe as possible. 😑
@@christinescorey7406 I'm so sorry. 😢
Yes, we comforted him for 2 hours until he died.
This was so interesting and very helpful. Thank you so much for posting this. I really appreciate it.
This is such an interesting and informative video! I've saved it to watch again if/when I need a reference for what good breathing looks like. I know when Pepper got Congestive Heart Failure I'd taken her to the vet because her breathing was so hard compared to my other piggies. It is important you pointed out what is normal for Fire because I know any pre-existing condition can cause breathing issues. One of my girls breathes a bit harder than the others and it's because her lungs have some kind of defect my vet says she was likely born with. I watch her breathing closely because although my vet assured me, twice, that it's not any type of lung cancer I'm a bit paranoid it might be.
Thanks for an informative vlog
Respiratory infections can be pretty easy to spot if they make those wheezing snorting sounds
This video was so helpful
Reminded me my Guinea pig…. Crossed the rainbow bridge last week
Thank you for this very informative video!!!
Star is so beautiful :D
Thanks for the video !!
Star is baby.
star is beautiful but is there anything the vet can do for her?
This was so helpful!
So super helpful. TY.
I Love Star!
Just lost one of my boys this past week... He seemed fine up until the night he passed. He was breathing very quickly around 4 pm and was shaking with the head bob. All the vets around me were closed or were not taking piggies which was very frustrating to me because nowadays it's like I can't find any vet that will take me. So after a few hours, he passed away. The internet was suggesting pneumonia but idk how he could have gotten that. All my other piggies are fine and my piggy that passed had no symtoms until that night. Are runny eyes a symtom of heart failure? He didn't have that until his breathing started. Thanks.
Thank you
Thanks!
Great video! I always stop and watch guinea pigs breath at the pet shop whenever I am in there so I can alert the staff of sick piggies. It's shocking how many I've found that way. Also, random question: has the vet ever recommended nebulizer treatments for piggies with chronic respiratory problems? If so did you find them effective?
My guinea pig, when she was young, had a uri and there was no fluid in her lungs. The antibiotics helped, but now, every now and then it's like her sinuses bother her and it's like she has a runny nose. And her sides breathe like how you showed. Then after a few minutes she'll be fine. I usually turn on the humidifer when I notice her having problems.
One of my boys is breathing like this. I have no vets experienced with piggies in my area, I took him in a few months ago to be told he was perfectly healthy and it was probably just spring allergies (he sounds slightly wheezy with each breath). Can anything be done to help piggies who get like this? Antibiotics or anything?
I need help quick my guinea pig is breathing weird and I can’t take her to the vet till the morning please help what should I do I think she has a URI what do I do till I can get her to the vet
Saskia, could you do a small update on this showing normal breathing for skinny pigs? I feel you always see some movement with the hairless babies. Also, is it possible for guinea pigs to snore?
What do you do then when they are breathing weird
Excellent video, very helpful. My 2 yr old Bailey is happy and healthy but I have had a few piggies over the years that had respiratory problems and the breathing difficulty is heartbreaking. Baytril was what the vet gave but it didn’t always cure them. I follow your recommendations now. More medical related comparisons please! Also how about a video about what NOT to feed. I worry about parasites on outside grass or is this not really an issue? Thank you.
I love all your videos but I have two Guinea pigs that I can’t have any any more but if you can get them they have to stay together they are brother and sister
Will you make the decision to put Star to sleep when it looks like she's really uncomfortable, or do you let Nature take her course?
Poor Star, can she be on Lasik to help her body flush the excess fluids? I ask because I went through it and I relate to that Precious girl. Also, I thought for sure that the piggie with the whole in his nose would have been a little better by now. I expected the hole to close up some by now. Does the hole go all the way through her palate and into her mouth or is it only in the nasal passage?
Fyre has a hole in the bones of her face, likely caused by a trauma of some sort. It will not get better. The vet flushed the area and cleaned it up real good, she has been on multiple antibiotics and that did help, the mucus is no longer yellow in color.
Star is making a vet visit ASAP
@@LosAngelesGuineaPigRescue as for Fyre, i didn't know the whole was through the bone. I'm not familiar with the facial struction as far as what's bone and what might be just cartilage or tissue. So I had hoped her skin would eventually close over the opening. What she needs is reconstructive surgery with a tiny titanium plate over the hole. If cost were no object and the success rate was 100% then of course but tgen reality hits. I understand, she'll just have to be the special needs piggie that needs helps picking her nose 😉 and I apologize if you did cover this in a video, I rely heavily on subtitles but they aren't always 100% accurate.
Hopefully Star can get something to relieve the congestion. I really know how she feels, trying to breath but your lungs won't expand and your heart can't pump for the same reason. It's like an elephant is sitting on your chest. I know
@@LosAngelesGuineaPigRescue Can you make a video specifically about how you remove the plug of mucus from her?
@@LosAngelesGuineaPigRescue I myself have congestive heart failure so I feel really badly for that poor little guinea pig girl.
My female guinea pig started a low grunting today. I hope it's not lung related. I listened to the chest and there weren't any crackling sound.
Guinea pigs sitting on her lap without moving? Can’t relate
I'm wondering if maybe some engineers, possibly at a nearby college, could help fyre. I know amazing things can be done with 3D printing. For example, a tortoise with a crushed shell was given a new 3D-printed shell to survive. Do you think perhaps they could print a custom plug for fyre? if they could close that hole, she probably wouldn't have that mucous problem. Just a thought that came to me.
I have 2 piggies and one is very confident and the other is so so scared :’( she developed ring worm the first week and I guess I didn’t know how to manage her illness and also tame her properly, so now she is super super scared all the time :’(
The further her treatment goes along the more suspicious and scared she is, refuses to eat from my hands anymore bc she knows that cucumber is in the hand of the scary giant who had to hold her to put cream on her eye 😭 poor thing has medical trauma :’D
She will breathe very fast and I figured that was that she is scared? Eventually it slows down but that fast breathing freaks me out :’) they sneeze a lot too and I took them to the vet and he said their lungs were good and they had no boogers so he did not suspect an infection. I am so suspicious anyway 😭
(And ... I’m not sure how the doctor could hear her lungs she’s so fidgety!!)
Your videos (this and all of them!) have helped me calm my new pig mommy fears 😅watching my Penelope I can see hat yeah her breathing is not laboured, except for when she is terrified and breathes fast :’D
Penelope, Persephone and I say thank you and whee whee whee! ❤️
(We’re from LA too! Well close by - Acton haha)