Mocha is at the vet right, where they monitored her to see where the blood clot was coming from. Just as I suspected, they found a blood clot in her pee. And since the vet could feel no stones, she thinks it might be a secondary infection (UTI?), so Mocha will be getting antibiotics for the next 2 weeks.
Gonna pick her up now!
Unlike the first time, where she only bled for an entire day and stopped after that*, this particular incident has her leak a few tiny drops of blood one every one or two days.
*Which I think was tied to her heat cycle, since we found out after the lack of bacteria in the urinary analysis that it was reproductive related.
(Pic above shows the blood when it was still new.)
I was reading on Guinealynx and Guineapigcages about dyes from certain foods (cranberries, strawberries, red bell peppers, other red fruits and vegetables), but I’m absolutely sure it’s not from the cranberry water* I’ve been giving her. After it’s completely dried, it’s turned brown, like oxidized blood…
*Unsweetened cranberry juice heavily dilated with water is given to guineas by some owners to prevent UTI. The kind I found at Lassen’s (health food store) is 100% undilated with very little sugar.
So she has an appointment first thing tomorrow, since her normal vet is not in today and the only two vets at the animal hospital don’t look at guinea pigs. (Since guinea pigs are considered “exotic” animals, it’s not recommended at all to bring them to a regular dog/cat vet, unless if you print off some important pages from Guinealynx (like this) and they are willing to learn.)
I THINK/hope it might be UTI (needs antibiotics to cure) instead of bladder stones (needs surgery to remove the stones or will need to wait for the stones to pass through their system) and could kinda see it being UTI. Like most peegs her age, she tends to sit in her own pee more (too tired to get up after going to the bathroom) and needs to have her bottom wiped with a towel every once in a while.
UPDATE: 75% of furry inhabitants of this household are going to the vet tomorrow. Mocha, Muffin (blood in her poop AND her vomit) and Zoey (rabies shots). Not to the same vet, since Zoey and the cats go to this local dog/cat vet who is also a friend of my mom and dad’s. I think my dad somehow found out about Mocha’s appointment before I even told anyone (except Funkymonk) about it. O.o
(It’s also a good thing Mocha has her own carrier now. 
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Mocha loooves her bed…it’s actually a ferret bed. When I have both the bed and her plastic igloo (that I switched for a homemade roofless hut made from leftover coroplast) in her cage at the same time, she hopped right in the bed and was already making herself at home (bathing herself, etc) within the five seconds I had my bed turned…so…yeah…
Unfortunately the bed is starting to wear out. The inner fleece is wearing thin from multiple washings and a certain Mocha biting off the fleece. And the outer fabric I think is starting to shrink. There was probably something on the tag about not washing it in hot water…but there was no other way to get rid of that permanent pee smell. Uhh…well, I guess it’s ok to consider it dead.
So instead of letting her going bedless, I ordered a new, fancier one for her (they are called cozies or cuddle cups in the guinea pig world as I found out while on my guinea enlightenment journey) from Sewing4acause.com (where I also bought the 2×2 C&C cage blanket from). The heart fleece actually has nothing to do with the upcoming Valentine’s Day. I just noticed that there was a limited choice on the sherpa colors (sherpa = the fleece on the inside of the bed) and wanted the two fleeces to go with each other.
The new bed is fancier since it also comes with a cushion as you can see above.
I thought my guinea pig had high end tastes here and would appreciate having a cushion to rest her head on…like a pillow! That wasn’t the case. She laid down with her bottom end against the cushion and when she was bored, turned around to chew on the sherpa on the cushion. O.O;;
So now it’s outside of the hut as decoration.
New bed with a Mocha inside
(Even though polyester fleece does not harm them when they eat it, the thought of Mocha eating her bootyful cushion does not please me. Hopefully her new bed won’t suffer the fate of the old one. RIP old bed. 
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(The corohut is roofless and has a bigger opening to let the air ventilate a little better. Fleece blankets from Target (two baby blankets and one dog blanket) are in place to trap the warm air in.)
*peeeer*
I guess the bed was new and scary for her. She would only crawl in it when I put it in the corohut. Later on, I shall have to take a better picture of her laying in it out in the open.
Oh yes, guess what? More Windespirit/Sewing4cause swag incoming, probably later next month: 2 cage blankets for the dining room, kinda like the 2×2 blanket I got earlier, only with cotton batting in the middle to absorb more pee. I can switch them out daily and hand wash them in between. Lessens the amount of guinea pig laundry to maybe once a week hopefully (which was weirding my dad out earlier, over how much I use the washing machine).
