What services do we offer?

Guinea Pigs require specific attention and experience. At The Unusual Pet Vets, we guarantee that your guinea pig will receive quality care. Our services include: Health check-ups including dietary and housing requirements Guinea Pig vaccinations to prevent life-threatening illness and disease A wide range of food and toy products that are safe for guinea pigs Desexing Advanced guinea pig surgery and hospital care Guinea Pig dentistry For more information, or to make a booking, click here .

Guinea Pig Veterinary Care

You have mulled over the idea of either a dog or a cat but neither quite appeals to you. Instead, you have opted to get a guinea pig – great choice!

These sweet little creatures are such charming and sociable pets. Their size alone makes them great pets – they are too big to lose but just small enough to be held in your hands.

Experts in Guinea Pig Health

To ensure a healthy, happy life, your guinea pig will depend on you for a few things; a balanced diet, secure housing in the form of a well-maintained hutch, awesome company, and medical care provided by a trustworthy guinea pig vet.

The Unusual Pet Vets are guinea pig vets based in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney that can offer your loved ones the best in guinea pig care, treatment and help to promote good health.

The reason so many guinea pigs find themselves being brought in for a visit to our clinics isn’t just the fine guinea pig care they receive but the expert advice offered by trusted vets. We can teach you all there is to know; from housing to nutrition, preventative healthcare, and everything in between.

We Offer A Range Of Guinea Pig Veterinary Services

Belonging to the cavy family of rodents, a guinea pig’s health is inseparable from their diet. Guinea pigs are herbivores with teeth that never stop growing. Their dentistry is managed by the constant grinding on food and of course, visits to us.

Their diet consists primarily of hay, water, pellets/chaff and vegetables. However, our cute little friends are unable to synthesise their own Vitamin C so striking the balance of vitamin C rich vegetables and pellets is not to be taken for granted.

With our wide range of services, we can ensure that your guinea pig is living the healthiest and happiest life that it can. Our veterinarians each have a special interest and experience with exotic and unusual pets, especially guinea pigs.

Guinea Pigs Resources

We’ve put together a collection of guinea pig care and information sheets to help you feed guinea pigs properly, identify diseases that often occur, and how to generally care for your beloved pet.

Diet Information

Disease Information

General Information

Diet Information

Disease Information

General Information

Regardless of the type, each guinea pig is best treated by a trusted guinea pig veterinarian with in-depth knowledge of guinea pig medicine.

Why Choose The Unusual Pet Vets?

At The Unusual Pet Vets, we can guarantee that your guinea pig will receive quality care. In particular, we can help your guinea pig with:

Health check-ups including dietary and housing requirements

Desexing

Medical problems

Breeding advice

Surgery and hospital care

Dental work

Patient Story

Ana is a gorgeous guinea pig who was diagnosed with having cystic ovaries, a condition that we see commonly in unsterilised female guinea pigs. In mild cases the cysts generally don’t cause many problems however when they get larger (or start to secrete lots of hormones) they can start to cause pain, hair loss, a crusty appearance around the nipples, weight loss, inappetence and/or lethargy.

In most cases the treatment for cystic ovarian disease is to sterilise the patient by performing an ovariohysterectomy, which is what was performed in Ana’s case. She received intravenous fluids throughout her procedure, and we monitored a range of parameters including her heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature and oxygen saturation levels during her anaesthesia and recovery.

Problematic cysts generally range from 1-7cm in diameter. One of Ana’s cysts was very large and needed to be drained prior to removal. 7mls of liquid was drained from the cyst before successfully completing her surgery.

Ana handled the anaesthesia and surgery like a champion and she’s now home and on her way to making a full recovery.

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