About Brittany K. Expertise I can answer questions about care, diet, housing, breeding, health, breeds, and some questions about showing. My best areas of knowledge are in breeding and health. Feel free to ask me any question though, if I can't answer it I will find someone who can.
Experience I am currently going to college to become an exotic animal veterinarian. I also rescue and breed guinea pigs, I have for around 10 years.
Question Do guinea pigs get hiccups? last week mine had what looked and sounded a lot like hiccups. then it happened again this week. i've had him for over a month and this is the first i've seen this. is it something that should concern me? it kind of shakes his whole body, well not shakes, but its kind of like when a human has really bad ones...know what i mean?
Answer I would check the inside of his mouth and his cage for things that he should not be chewing on, or swallowing. Guinea pigs can not vomit at all, so hiccupping would be a sign of abnormal breathing, or a reaction to something in his mouth. Also does he have any other drainage in his lungs or anywhere else that accompanies the hiccups? Hiccups can be from Upper Respiratory Infections, because the drainage restricts normal breathing. If he has any plastic, or wooden toys that he has been chewing on, remove them, and see if that helps, he could be trying to eat material like that. Let me know if you have any more questions.
Brittany
