Oxbow Critical Care Herbivore, Fine Grind, Emergency Rabbit & Guinea Pig Food, Natural Papaya Flavor, Veterinary Formula, Critical Care Herbivore, Assist Feeding Formula for Pets, 100 gram bag

Critical care is the best thing you could give your guinea pigs in a crisis situation of them not eating or of the first signs of a cold for them. Gives them the vitamins they need and encourages them to eat again. In certain situations, it's the difference of night and day.

We use this at a tortoise rescue and sanctuary, it's super effective. Easy to make, lasts a long time and helps give the tortoises the boost they need

I ordered the papaya fine grind, as the other variation doesn't fit well into a syringe for feeding my guinea pig. Great product, my Guinea pig loves it and it has kept him alive while going through dental issues/abcesses.

When you have a bun in stasis you know how life saving this stuff can be! Especially this flavor. It’s ground up nice and fine for small syringes which are easier to feed them with and they tend to like the flavor so much more on this one than any other flavor. A little bit goes a long way too. A few feedings every 4-6 hours for a few days (with the okay of a vet to ensure there’s no blockages) and my babies are usually back to their happy destructive selves lol

Great product, but I'm leaving this review specifically for the person who has their chinchilla in the plastic ball in one of the reviews. Your chin is getting sick because of that ball, from heat stroke no less. Chinchillas can easily get heat stroke and easily overheat when simply playing and running around, putting them in that ball just speeds up that process. Keep him in a room that is 69 degrees at all times for this reason, they can not be in any environment that is over 70 degrees for extended periods, but you can also buy cooling tiles for them, these do help to some extent. Throw that ball away and buy a metal play pen that he can run around in while supervised. They can't have any plastic in their cage, they eat it and it kills them, any plastic ledges can be covered with fleece liners. Oxbow pellets and timothy hay is all they need in their diet to survive, there are treats they can have like rose hips and apple twigs, but do not risk giving them anything if you aren't sure. Kiln dried pine or kiln dried aspen bedding is the only bedding they should have, any expandable bedding will be eaten and will expand in the stomach which will kill them. Sweets will cause bloat and kill them as well, even the ones that they can have like dried goji berries, so these must be given in moderation, once every 2 weeks if okay. There are also a variety of herbs, snacks and treats and toys they can have and I recommend checking out "whimsy's menagerie" for a great selection of them and other thing's. They also need dust baths twice a week and should not be washed with water. Hope this helps someone.

I'm so glad I bought this stuff before I adopted my rabbit - everyone with a rabbit should keep this for emergencies. I have used Critical Care many times with guinea pigs and rabbits. Someone suggested the fine grind over regular Critical Care and honestly, this stuff is AWESOME.It blends up well, you can blend it with an electrolyte mixture like Pedialyte, and it keeps a good texture for syringing. In fact, I fill up a few 10ml syringes when I have an ill rabbit and I heat them up on a heating pad while I medicate, hydrate, and massage a GI stasis tummy. Once the Critical Care is nice and warm, I can easily syringe it, clean up the rabbit, and get them back to resting until the next feeding.PRO-TIP so when you get up every 4 hours with a stasis rabbit and you can't think: don't try to draw it into a syringe, just pop it open and spoon it in from the top and let it settle with as few air bubbles as possible, allowing space to get the plunger back in.PRO-TIP #2: buy yourself some syringes on Amazon so you have it. Exotic pets almost always get sick at 1am on Fridays, when nothing is open in town and no ER vet sees exotics.

I absolutely love this product! We rescue chinchillas and aside from having very specific diets chins can go downhill fast if they become sick or injured. We had one chin who seriously injured a paw and completely stopped eating. Another had stomach and kidney issues and quit eating as well. I had a pregnant female who would miscarry. After we added this product as a regular supplement during her pregnancy she was able to carry to term. The product is very easy to use. I adjust the water content based on our needs. For recovery I often thin it more for easy consumption. The thinner product also gets more liquid in them to hydrate. As a supplement we leave it a little thicker. We often give it to our healthy chins to boost their diet from time to time. Truth is, they love this stuff and if one chin is on it and we are feeding them the others beg at the front of their cage for some. With really sick chins who won’t come forward to eat we found swaddling them in a blanket or towel to feed works best. This product is always on my shelf in case of an emergency and I have brought more than one chin back from going into shock and dying on us by using it. Even my rabbit loves this though he prefers the courser grind. Yes it is costly but it actually goes a long way and as long as you keep the bag well closed it has great shelf stability.