look mum no teeth

[brizzledrizzle]

GP4 has managed to lose his top two teeth and his bottom two are very short. We've been to the vet and are now syringe feeding him which is not appreciated - he's using his paws to push the syringe out of his mouth.
He's still able to eat hay but not carrot so we are slicing it very thinly for him into small pieces otherwise it just falls out of his mouth.

How the dickens did he do that ? Is he a cage rattler?
We've had lost teeth over the years (sometime 1 sometimes 2 . GP1 managed one each top/bottom )

They can hoover up grated carrot and cucumber rind , chopped up cucumber middle.
Syringing is a nightmare , these little mammals do not like making it easy (though it must be 100x harder without the teeth, we were poking the syringe behind Berts teeth and letting him chew each drop, some spat out the sides but at least his teeth kept it in)

What's the going rate for the Cavy Tooth Fairy (GP1 was 'sliver of watermelon' but its January )

There's no going rate without the actual teeth and heaven only knows what he has done with them. He's not a cage rattler, or rattler of anything to be honest.
I hope doesn't lose too much weight.

I hope they dissolve en route otherwise it'll sting the other end TWICE if they forget when they're pooh-eating .

They do seem to manage pretty well with small veg, I think grating is easier for them to pick up and you can hand feed long slivers , the back teeth will still grind it.
But , YY to the Critical Care for the fibre

He's rejected the syringe now - we put some on a spoon and tried that, he lapped it up. He's a smart piggy (the others are as daft as a brush) at working out how to use things.

Todd lost his his teeth twice. He was a bar biter. Got us trained into opening his door door the moment we got up and closing it very last thing at niht.

One time , he had us cutting his veg up into tiny batons long after the teeth grew back. Vet basically told us the guinea pig was mugging us off. We stopped the fine chopping and he went back to eating like a normal guinea pig

I wondered that but he's lost weight. He's now refusing the spoon and syringe so we've put the mushed up food on a plate for him and he seems to be eating it as the others won't touch it.