Sherwood Pet Health Guinea Pig Emergency Kit (Small) with Timothy Recovery Food and Appetite Restore in Stay-Fresh Packets

Saved my guinea pigs’ lives multiple times!
This product is incredible. I started using it because Oxbow was having product shortages, and I couldn’t acquire critical care at an affordable price. It isn’t quite as fine as the critical care, and it also lacks that fake fruity/fennel scent that either oxbow flavor came with. I count this as a plus as I prefer to add flavor myself via baby food/fruit or veggie purée, depending on the GI health of the piggy I am treating.I use this both as supplement when my piggies weights are dipping and as emergency treatment when piggies won’t eat. I didn’t notice the difference between this and Oxbow until one of my guinea pigs got sick. Several of them are older, around 5-6 yrs old, and one got bloat from discomfort related to an early developing URI and overnight became so inflated and uncomfortable that we had to rush her to the emergency vet where they found her body was beginning to shut down, with her body temp dipping significantly. They had suggested the possibility of putting her down due to her discomfort, but together we decided to try hospitalizing her and seeing if motility drugs and IV fluids would help. I gave them this product to use there and they gave her 15 ml every 6 hours. The difference after 24 hrs of this product was INCREDIBLE. I visited her at the emergency lap and held her in my lap, and I was laughing and crying at the same time because she was just doing massive farts on my lap and I was just so relieved. She was much more comfortable and much more like herself, and went on to make a full recovery!I have many guinea pigs and have had many of them since they were babies, and I know how difficult bloat can be. In my experience recovery with critical care always took DAYS, seeing some results after 2-3 days with significant improvement only after 4-5 days. I’ve had several instances of emergency syringe-feeding sick, bloated guinea pigs since then and this stuff reduces their bloat in 1-2 days to the point where they want to eat on their own. It’s incredible! They also seem to like the taste of it more than critical care, as the banana flavor was very hit or miss. I’m so happy to have an option for emergency feed that isn’t full of soy and molasses and wheat and other things that prolong the process of bloat recovery.

Good to have on hand
When I could not find critical care, I found this. So grateful and it is a good product, easy to use, Guinea pig ate it without fuss.

So much better then the other critical care
Such a huge bag and honestly grateful how much there is in it. My piggie loves it. He currently has bloat and is losing weight but this stuff really does help. He has been pooping so much more since I received this. I was going to buy two more bags but just one is more then enough. Also keeps his weight content. This product has so much more nutrition then the other critcal care. Also heard that the oxbow critcal care has fillers that’s not really the best for our piggies. Don’t get me wrong I love oxbow! I always purchase their hay ect. Still a good product for sure but this is a lot better!❤️

guinea pig emergency kit
I purchased this kit for my guinea pigs first aid kit just in case I need it. Hopefully, my guinea pigs will stay healthy. But, it’s better to be safe than sorry……. just in case.