Small Pet Weight and Health Chart
Give any small pet a weekly weight record, which is the earliest warning available for animals that hide illness by instinct.
Exotic and small pets · XP-15
A free printable guinea pig care sheet — weekly weight, hay and vegetables, vitamin C, nails, teeth and coat.
One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
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The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
Track the four things guinea pigs most often go wrong on, with a weight column that catches trouble early.
Guinea pig owners, rescues and families.
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: Weight, vitamin C, nails, teeth and companionship — the four things guinea pigs go wrong on.
Why those columns exist — but not the quantities. No diet quantities or supplement doses are printed. Guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C and their teeth grow continuously, which is why those columns exist — but how much of what, and how often, is a matter for your vet and a species-specific source.
Write-on lines: Name · Acquired · Housed with · Vet practice
Table, 12 rows: Date · Weight · Hay and veg · Vitamin C given · Nails · Teeth · Coat and skin · Droppings · Notes
Ruled lines: Weight trend, vet visits and anything to watch
No dose is printed. It depends on age, health and diet, and both deficiency and over-supplementation are possible. Your vet is the source; the sheet records what you gave.
No target is printed. The useful signal is a steady weight in your own animal — a consistent fall is a reason to ring the vet whatever the absolute number.
Give any small pet a weekly weight record, which is the earliest warning available for animals that hide illness by instinct.
Catch a problem early by writing the weight down weekly, because rabbits hide illness until it is advanced.
Keep a weekly record for animals whose decline is easy to miss and quick once it starts.
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