One of my male GPs has got a couple of lumps on his tummy. The vet has said he needs an operation to remove them and I am really worried about the anaesthetic.
Has anyone’s GP’s been through a similar operation and what was the recovery like. He is only 2 so want to give him a good chance of a longer life.
Thanks in advance for any help xx
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Guinea Pig operation
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Bakedbeanhead · 29/07/2020 08:08
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70isaLimitNotaTarget ·
30/07/2020 09:24
Ahh Paws Crossed
I know I was worrying when our ( large young) boar was castrated which is commonly done but still a risk.
He's a young boy so thats in his favour . And you trust your vet (we went to a guinea-pig clinic so it was something they did day in day out )
We were adviced :
a snack when they come round , their guts need to keep going .
White towels or fleece so you can check for bleeding or exudate
No hay to sleep in but we gave hay cookies (solid disc) or hay in a loo roll tube
Loxicom is like Guinea-Pig Crack cocaine - ours literally sprinted over ( in his post surgical state 
) by Day 2 to scoff it .
Hopefully they're fatty lumps , have they suggested they might be otherwise ?
70isaLimitNotaTarget ·
30/07/2020 09:45
Best just to stick with towels and newspaper .
Any fragments that get caught might make them want to groom themselves .
They might advice to keep him seperate from his cagemate fr his recovery (side by side so they have contact) or he might be ok just to take himself off somewhere quiet .
Is the cagemate going as moral support ?
We took GP3 on his own because his very new wives (not bonded till he was sterile) were too lairy , we'd only had them 3 days and they'd have been the opposite of help .
Any other time we took a companion .
One of my sows got lumpy in old age and sadly they weren't fatty . But she had a good life right to the end , which is what they want and deserve .
He'll want lots of treats after - parseley , dandelions leaves , that soty of thing 
StudentHelp ·
30/07/2020 09:55
Hi OP,
I’m a vet student and an avid guinea pig lover (I currently have 5)! My last boy who I lost in February at 6 and a half had an operation when he was 5 years old.
I was in my first year of uni and he stayed at home and he had a huge lump that ballooned to 60g in the space of not much more than a week or 2. My parents left it as they wanted me to make the decision for him but thought it’d be time to say goodbye.
I had an FNA done and it was fatty so he had it removed and was also castrated to go with the 2 sows I had acquired whilst at uni . It went well and he lived another 18 or so months very happily with his new wives after losing his brother.
To be honest I hadn’t expected him to come through the operation but wanted to give him the chance.
As with all anaesthetics, there are risks which you’ve mentioned and your vet will fully run through with you to check you consent, but at 2 years old he really has a fighting chance.
I wish you and your lovely boy all the best and good luck for his operation 
twinguineas ·
30/07/2020 12:03
@Bakedbeanhead
They do get a little stressed if they are apart. The vet said that you don’t need to starve them, which is a relief as all they do is eat !
The thought of having to manage nil by mouth for a guinea pig
My two behave as if they have been on starvation rations every time they hear the kitchen door
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