Hello i'm looking for a healthy guinea pig, any home breeder or recommended pet shops in penang?

I got myself a guinea pig today, his name is Zizou and he's very shy. By the way, what do u guys think of vitakraft?

Hello, my guinea pig has a lot of tiny moving white dust. What can i do to get rid of them? I'm a new guinea pig owner, need some advice. Thanks in advance

Ok, thanks again. By the way, my Zizou is only about a month old & today is the 2nd day in his new home. Can i still bathe him?

This post has been edited by tnehkc: Aug 17 2010, 08:07 PM

Ok, i'll get it done today

By the way, any vet in penang who treats guinea pigs? Just in case..

I bathed my Zizou with babyjohnson & vinegar today, but the moving white dust is still there. When his body is wet, i can see a lot of very tiny brown spots on his body. Any idea what's wrong with him?

I'm from penang, any vet who treats guinea pigs here?

[quote=xavi5567,Aug 20 2010, 08:51 AM]
white moving thinggy is lice.. brown spot moving- mites.. double deal.. tis 1 u need to c dr. for revolution application liao.. but while u look for the proper dr. at penang.. continue the vinegar treatment.. warm water plus vinegar (ratio 1:1) rendam ur pig for 5-10 minute.. in doing so get a old toothbrush and brush off the foreign moving object(FMO).. dont do tis everyday though -->i mean the bathing.. do it two times a week... after the bath rinse again with warm water and dry ur piggy off with a hair dryer and while doing so comb its fur/coat .. u should c those FMO fall off..

[quote=shukri77,Aug 20 2010, 11:28 AM]
My experience treating lice using baby oil. Next time i will use olive oil as xavi said baby oil is mineral based and harder than olive oil. I dont bath my gp that time bcoz i am afraid to bath him until now (now, i force my wife to bath him and i help her). I put the oil using my finger not pour a lot on his body. At first i use my finger and put on the spot where the lice stay. I found that the lice like to stay at the rosette (abbysinian breed got this). When i put the oil on the rosette, they run to other part of the body . Lastly, i put the oil on all over his body except face and ear. I take time so that my gp not so stressed eventhough i feel his stressness that time. After putting oil, i let him alone in his cage about 15 to 20 (i think) minutes and after that i swept lap2 using dry towel and brushing him slowly using toothbrush. After that i clean all the stuffs i.e towel, brush and the cage and made new setup for the cage. I think i repeat the 2nd and third days but only using my finger on the spot where lice stays and lap2 using towel and brush. I can see the improvement starting from the 2nd day. Eventhough, the wet effect by the oil stay about a week bcoz i didnt bath him.

In my opinion using baby oil and vinegar bathing are two different treatments. If u run both treatments at the same time it can make yr gp stressed. If u can see vet just see vet. Last time i didnt see vet bcoz i didnt know any vet here in jb. But if u still want to alternatively treat yr gp, u do your best for your gp. Good luck.

Here is the picture of my gp during his treatment.
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These pictures remind me when i was in my childhood. Every morning before go to school my mum put hair oil on my hair. The smell of the hair oil made me active and not sleepy

Thanks guys, the brown spots are only visible when his body is wet & it's not moving. Anyone feeding their guinea pigs with vitakraft here? Is it good for the guinea pigs? I'm mixing vitakraft with hagen for Zizou but he doesn't like the hagen pellets.

Ok, i'll bring him to the vet as soon as possible.

Thanks for the info, how bout hagen?

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