Ruffles wasn't eating and I had to force feed her the liquid food and her
pain meds and constantly clean her poo because she would not be able to
eliminate properly because her butt is always on the floor. That Monday
I heard the news I didn't want to hear, Ruffles is paraplegic and she
cannot feel any deep pain anywhere below her injury. I felt like it was
all my fault. The doctor said if she's not happy and her quality of life
isn't good then it would be more humane to put her down. My boyfriend
and I were heartbroken, we didn't want her to lose her life that quickly
because we knew she had so many more years ahead of her. We mentioned
to the doctor that I noticed that she began eating more when she would
hear Nibbles eating and she recommended to try to keep them near by but
not together until a couple of days just so we can continue to supervise
her. After leaving the vet we did just that.
Coming
home, I began setting up the cage to be two parts of one cage to allow
Ruffles and Nibbles to see, hear and smell each other without being in
the same cage and sure enough Ruffles ran around, was eating, drinking
and pooping like nothing ever happened. She seemed happy. Since it was
our first guinea pig we had no idea what was a happy guinea pig (she was
really quiet). I signed up to the forum guineapigcages.com and asked
people there and gave them the scenario and the description of her
behavior and everyone agreed she sounded happy!
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