Trouble In Guinea Pig Paradise

The guinea pigs are just darling.   They keep growing and are learning more about us and are starting to trust us some.   The love to come to the edge of the cage and ask for pea flakes.   Pea flakes are dehydrated peas that have been smashed flat and for some reason they are the top of the list of delicious to guinea pigs.   

But there is trouble with both of the "children."  Cheerio has what might be fungus on his nose, but we're not sure.  We were debating taking him to see a veterinarian but wanted to give it a few days to see if it wasn't a scrape first.  

Then today my daughter noticed a lump on Kix.   It's not a small lump either.  It's sizeable and I'm assuming is an abscess.  I spoke with several different locations trying to find somewhere that saw "exotics" and ended up on a call at the veterinarian school with a doctor who said as long as he was eating and drinking normally to call their exotics clinic on Monday morning. 

I was glad to find someone who could see them and my daughter was relieved to hear Kix wasn't in danger.

Children Will Be Children;  My children are eleven and ten and yet today what were they doing?  Taking their crib mattresses and sliding down the stairs on them.   Really?