Today I took both the guinea pigs out for a hold. The first one (Gypsy) was easy to pick up and sat nicely. I had a good chance to check out her coat, discovering that she has lice. Lots of lice and parts of her skin look a bit scaly, I am guessing fungal but not an expert.
I have treated both of them with a spot on lice, mites, etc treatment and ordered some herbal products from a company called Gorgeous Guineas. I have ordered a lice treatment called 'Lice and Easy' and a skin soother / treatment called 'super souffle'.
I have heard wonderful things about both products so hopefully in a few weeks both will feel better. My fingers were dirty after going through their coats so they will both feel and look so much better after a nice wash.
The second guinea pig (Bessie) was crazy to pick up, she was flailing and flipping like mad and was quite hard to hold onto. Once in my lap she sat nicely and was no problem. Can't say I am looking forward to bathing her though.
I put both of them in the run and threw some parsley in there, they went mad munching the parsley and I picked some long grass which they also polished off. I came back indoors and when I went back out about 20 minutes later they were back in their bedroom upstairs so had figures out how to use the ramp to go back up.
Going to hold them both later and try and hand feed some parsley seeing as it was such a hit. Fingers crossed.
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