is my guniea pig pregent?

Question
this is my question i have a female guniea pig and i had put her with a male for a play date for about 15minutes and the male would not leave her alone got on top of her and all of this other stuff...but know me and my friend think that she is pregent because the side of her belly is moving and my friend katie just had her second litter of guniea pigs and i was the one who had found out in the first place and now i think that mine is pregent, she bites just like her mom did when she had her babies but we talked to my mom and she thinks that it is all part of her body to move but her body did not move like this in the first place. do you think that she is pregent if i can feel little heartbeats....if that is what it is. this all happened about 3 weeks ago.

Answer
Hello Mack,

I won't say she isn't pregnant, because she very well may be, however, if the encounter with the male was only 3 weeks ago, it's not babies you are feeling move yet. You will start feeling babies after about 6 to 7 weeks and they'll be born in about 10 weeks. Since she did have the encounter with the male, and if he did successfully mount her, treat her like she is pregnant just to be safe. A successful breeding can take only a few seconds to happen and if she did let him mount her, she was likely in heat or he'd have been sprayed in the face with pee or even bitten. Make sure she has plenty of food and water and extra vitamin c. When she starts showing (if she is pregnant of course) hold her only when you have too. I also suggest reading everything you can on piggy pregnancy and delivery so you can be ready for everything that's going to happen and everything else that could. I'll give you a few excellent links to get you started. Good luck! If she is in fact pregnant, best wishes for a safe pregnancy and delivery and healthy pups.

http://www.guinealynx.info/reproduction.html

http://www.diddly-di.fsnet.co.uk/breeding.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2517/pregnant.htm

http://www.geocities.com/abyssinianguineapigs/breeding.html

http://www.lienanimal.com/z_guineapreg.pdf

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/pets/guinea-pig-faq/section-8.html

-kkat