A family are ‘distraught’ after two guinea pigs bought at Pets at Home died within a week ‘with Strep symptoms’.
Sam Mesher and daughters Ava, 4, and Mia, 11, saw their pet Coco die after having her for just three weeks, and then Coco’s replacement, Fudge, died a few days later.
Sam claims the animals were infected with Streptococcus, commonly known as Strep, which was discovered among Pets at Home’s guinea pig population last week.
The pet store stopped selling guinea pigs due to the outbreak.
The family loved the company of Coco and Oreo, who they bought from Pets at Home in Taunton at the end of December when Coco suddenly stopped eating and ‘had a runny nose’.
With the guinea pig struggling to breathe, they rushed Coco to Vets for Pets and left her in their care.
Within days, Coco had died.
Sam said: ‘My 11-year-old was distraught, in floods of tears.’
The Vet report, seen by…
