is my piggie just a weirdo?
So, I know my son is strange. He always has been. I've had him since he was 4 weeks old and despite properly and slowly introducing foods, he's the pickiest guinea pig on existence. Sometimes he refuses to drink from his water bottle and only wants syringe water (his vet and I are at a loss on that).
However, recently he's started doing another weird thing. I give him a small serving of pellets once a day before I go to bed and for the past couple months when I wake up in the morning he has a wet lump of pellet powder leftover and the pee pad under the bowl is covered in damp crumbs. It's only the past month that the pile is seemingly the same mass as the solid pellets were. I guess he now chews the pellets and... doesn't swallow??? Or perhaps most of the pellet crumbs fall out of his mouth and he only swallows some? Does anyone else have a guinea pig that does this???
I'm not worried - he eats his hay and veggies normally - just confused.
(Don't worry: he lives on his own because he is immunocompromised - he can hear my other piggies constantly and he gets to have quality time with them when I set up play pens side by side for them.
Also: he does not have teeth issues. He had x-rays earlier this year and I take him to the vet regularly - he saw his vet two times last month.)