my guinea pig had a small patch of hair loss and scabbing so took her to the vets last tuesday and was treated for mites and dermatitis, within 3 days nearly all her hair had gone and huge sores were covering her body

Shes having oral antibiotics twice a day and nearly all her scabs have gone now!!!

I have now learnt to steer clear of cheap Hay, after over £100 of vets fees to treat one guinea pig and one rabbit for mites its turned out to be amazingly expensive hay!

heres a pic of her before her hair loss

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aww how cute exactly the reason i dont buy cheap hay!!!

Poor guinea hope she/he ok now tho!

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learnt that lesson now!!!

shes ok, shes a bit bald but her scabs are nearly healed so not hurting any more

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We had exactly the same happen to us last year!!!! my poor GP was nearly god damn bald with really sore scabs all over his back and ears, we took him to the vet and they gave him an injection, when we got home he had a bad fit due to the injection dose being wrong
As you can imagine we weren't pleased, after a process of elimination (sp) we found it was the hay we were using, we went to the supplier who THEN decided to tell us some hay he gets in isn't treated so poor Stuarts injuries were all from the mites in this stupid crap hay!!!!!
Once we stopped using it and treated his sores and kept him on ripped up kitchen towel etc for a while he soon got all his lovely rexy fur back, hope your little one gets well soon

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rep's, fluffie's, bird's, dowgies

yeah, i was told by one the people that worked there that it was sterilised but then i find out it wasnt, they have shredded paper at the moment with sawdust and live indoors, the rabbit has his own blanket!!!

Rugs whole belly scabbed up and shes got a bit of hair left on her back but not much, the scabs are nearly gone but shes still bald, shes in the front room in a converted pet carrier to shes well enough to go back with her friend

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unfortunatly even though she seemed to be getting better, Rug passed away today

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this exact thing happened to our Aphy allthough we were very lucky and she pulled through and by very lucky i mean amazingly as she started losing her fur and we found out while she was pregnant ans were unable to treat her untill the babies had been weaned :-( u have to be so careful and unfortunatly it seems u have learnt in the worst possible way :-( i am so sorry for ur loss he looks so beautiful RIP x

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