Guinea Pigs and Vitamin C

I cannot stress it enough how you must give your guinea pig vitamin C. My guinea pig Mr. Pickles got scurvy because he did not get enough vitamin C because I did not know that pigs needed more vitamin C than drops in their water. He first stopped eating. We took him to the vet and they said that he had pancreas levels that were well out of the range of a normal pig's levels. Our vet said that he would call an expert on pigs and that she should be able to tell us what was wrong. She said it might be Pancreatitis, but after a second consulting, she told us it could be scurvy. The scurvy caused his teeth to overgrow (as pig's teeth always keep growing because the pig normally files them down on a wood block or stick an their food (for the right kind of stick see My first post)) and they trapped his tongue. She filed them down but said they would never be normal again and if we wanted him to stay healthy we would have to come back and have them filed every week or two. We fed him mushy foods that he could swallow without chewing and he was okay until his teeth grew back. We had them filed by our local vet and they got them finally back to normal length. The problem now was that his jaw could not close because his teeth had prevented it from closing, and even after the filing, his jaw was stuck in the position that it had been locked in for so long. Unfortunately, with his jaw locked it was hard for him to swallow, so he may not make it for much longer. :(