cali
06-13-2005, 08:02 AM
last night I lost a baby, I raised smudge from birth, he was to turn 3 years old this year, but he was never like the other guinea pigs, he did not get along with them and did not like to be handled a lot, but when I got my Rabbit they became the best of friends, rarely was their a moment that the 2 of them were not snuggled up to eachother, then recently I noticed that the water was not going as fast as normal and the cage was not getting messy as fast, but I was so stressed about all these school projects that I thought "whatever, maybe they just dont like this water" Kari was fine and smudge appeared to be fine after all. then last night I grabbed the litter box to clean, he was fine when I grabbed the box, but when I came back with the clean box smudge was lying on the floor gasping for air, I grabbed him right away, and had no idea what was wrong, it was the middle of the night and my mom was out of town, I cleaned him up and kept him warm, and got fluids into his system, while I was force feeding him water with a small dropper I realized that his teeth seemed really long, I had no idea what was normal so I checked blizzard and sure enugh his top teeth we hardly visable beyonf the upper lip, smidge however had malocclusion, if I closed his mouth his teeth extended right down his chin, so I started filing his teeth down, but my mom had taken the nail clippers with her so the file was all I had, unfortinatly I was not fast enugh, I stayed up with him for 2 hours then his bottom started to bleed, that had me VERY confused, but then this white stuff came out of his penis and he went limp, I still have no clue what happend to him but I did my best to save him and lost :( Kari keeps hunring around the cage trying to find her buddy, which just makes me feel worse :(