GP hygiene

1. Bathe GP once a week. Mild shampoo for kittens like Bunny is cost saving and good.
Avoid night bath. Noon bath is advisable. Either put them at a warmer place to dry or
blow with dryer.
NOt advisable to keep them damp for too long.

2. For male GP, check their testicles DAILY and remove hairs or dirts stucked to prevent
infection and swelling.

3. Put newspaper at tray bottom and wrap the newpapers once every other day.

4. Use greyhound comb to groom their hair and apply baby powder without boric acid, at
least once every other day. You
will have lovely, sweet smelling darling.

5. Annually, once a year, purchase 10 mg/ml (concentrated) Ivermectin from vet at the
right dosage, drop only one drop
at the bare skin part near the ear. Once every 2 weeks for 3 months.
Overdose is deadly. This is for fur mite prevention, cleansing and treatment. Mange mite,
a seldom case, is another story.

Prchase from:
Klinik Haiwan Subang Jaya
No. 19, Jalan SS15/4E, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor.
Dr. Sivabalan.
03-56332459

6. If they have lice, white kutu, treat with Advantage, never Frontline. Advantage is sold
in Pet Family, Tmn Megah, PJ.

GP diet

1. Overfeeding with vege is the common mistakes that leads to deadly diarrhoe. Always
maintain the following rule.

Standard:
For a 4 inch diameter bowl with 1.5 inch height, fill 3/4 of that bowl with chopped vege
and chopped fruit per guinea.

This amount will be just right.

2. Get a bottle of tablets Flavettes Vit C, 250 mg. Split one tablet into 4 parts. One guinea
will require around 50 mg.
Crush that quarter part and sprinkle it on food daily. Guinea cannot manufacture Vit C,
they need supplement.

3. You can mix guava, apple, celeries, carrots, other greens like sawi, spianch...etc daily.
Shred and chop them fine.

4. Important, give them endless supply of good quality timothy hay.

5. To prevent girdiasis, refill bottle with water that is boiled at least every other day.

6. Once a year, deworm your guinea with Metronidazole (Flagyl). Can get from Klinik
Haiwan Subang Jaya.

GP diarrhoea home treatment

1. Symptoms: Watery and messy stool, guinea stays at a corner.

Attenttion needed immediately!

First, go to pharmacy and shop, buy these:

1. Immodium - medicine to harden stool.
2. Ors - Oral rehydration salt
3. 3 ml or 5 ml syringe without needle
4. Vitagen or Yakult

2. Add a little oral rehydration salt into water and syringe feed the patient every 2 hours
to prevent dehydration.

3. Give Immodium once a day. Just a little bit will do.

4. Once a day, syringe feed good bacteria Yakult, Vitagen. Not too much though.

5. On the second day, it's important to force feed the guinea to prevent his system from
shutting down.
Crush his daily guinea pig pellets and leafy hay to fine particles. Use your hand to shove
it into his mouth and let
him slowly munch and swallow. Feed him 2-3 times a day..

It requires tremendous patience, care, time, effort to pull the sick guinea through. It will
recover within 3 days the
most.
Please follow a good guideline when giving vege to prevent such trying moments as
diarrhoe.
GP Injury

1. Most common injury/infection is Bumblefoot infection. More info on Bumblefoot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblefoot_%28infection%29

Bumblefoot happens with those GP kept in wire cages and mattings with holes.

Check their foot pad every week to see such symptoms. Apply yellow solution to the
infected area.

If it occurs very very frequently, then you should consider changing to other matting.

2. Red/swellig eyes.

Purchase antibiotic drops for eyes that is meant for us, from our clinic and drop one drop
per eye daily.