Isabelle is a female guinea pig that was surrendered with a male guinea pig , they were together in the same cage. It was unfortunate that Isabelle was already pregnant before we separated the male in a different living space. Isabelle delivered 2 babies on March 20th, 2010. Both babies were doing well, until yesterday, I discovered one had a rectal prolapse! I rushed the little guy to the vet, and Dr.T went to work on him immediately. After about 15 minutes Dr.T came out to tell me bad news. Part of the little guy's colon had already become diseased. He said we could amputate the diseased section, but that would leave him with very little colon. Then he would have had uncontrollable diarrhea for the rest of his life. The only humane and kind thing to do for the little one was to let him go, and not wake him up from the sedative. He was so very young :(
Isabelle's remaining baby is running laps the cage right now, and Isabelle seems in good spirits too.
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