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Guinea Pig Report

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This post is actually about a Guinea Pig I saw last week, but forgot about. Luckily I documented it so I get to show you all the whole thing. Warning (as stated above) this is gonna get gross.

Around mid last week, a young girl and her mom brought in one of her six Guinea Pigs after noticing a lump had developed on its rump. After further examination, we found that said lump was, in fact, a pus filled abscess likely caused from another Guinea Pig's bite as it had two puncture holes. For this little pig that meant we had to flush and express the abscess, draining it off all its pus and other contents.

I took a video, in which Doc makes fun of me for always taking pictures of things, ironic. You can see one of the techs flushing the wound,

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