Bill & Ted
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Mine all love fennel, I have four plants in the garden, it’s the feathery type. Very easy to grow from seed and comes back every year.
So glad Melody is enjoying her grub x
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5 year old sow diagnosed with cancer
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So glad Melody is enjoying her grub x
Dilly's Piggies
Teenage Guinea Pig
Melody right after emeprid, perked right up and ate almost this entire lettuce 
she's such a sweet baby ❤
I hope the link works?
Melody enjoying lettuce
she's such a sweet baby ❤I hope the link works?
Melody enjoying lettuce
Black piggies
Senior Guinea Pig
Aw your heart must be soaring to see her chomping so much now 
Roselina
Forum Donator 2025/26
Wow she will need a big snooze after eating all that! What a beautiful girl Melody is. Keep strong and enjoy that special piggieMelody right after emeprid, perked right up and ate almost this entire lettuce
I hope the link works?
Melody enjoying lettuce
Dilly's Piggies
Teenage Guinea Pig
Tuesday update: It has officially been 1 week since Melody had her surgery, it feels like it was yesterday!
It has certainly been a very long, expensive and intensive recovery, but she's worth every second and penny. I still don't think we're completely out of the woods, still working on her appetite which is up and down and getting her to drink from the bottle herself again, but from yesterday morning to now there has been dramatic improvements that I thought were worth noting.
Last night she hit back up into the 900g's for the first time since surgery, weighing 917g, I was shocked seeing those numbers on the scale! She was 880g when I got her out of the cage, I syringe fed her around 8mls of CC and the rest of those grams came from her suddenly ravenous appetite that came out of no where. Yes it was syringe feed and veggies that got her up to 917g so mainly water weight, but for the entire week she has never weighed more than 880g even after syringe feed and veg.
For the first time she was seriously trying to fight me and start a war against the syringe feed, she kept giving me a dirty look and ate little pieces of hay she dragged out of the cage with her to prove a point that she didn't need the critical care.
She wanted to eat my entire fridge whole, I was there for almost 2 hours hand feeding her veggies, hay and porridge oats, she was a bottomless pit. Eventually I had to put her back because my legs and back hurt from sitting there so long, but she wasn't done eating...
I hope this continues, I love her being little miss attitude and demanding I go digging in the hay for the best parts (she refuses to get them herself, but eats it if I find them and hand feed it to her, spoiled much?), this is the Melody that I know and love.
Now she's wandering around the cage like she normally would, every time I go in she's in a different spot, which is a change too as before she just slept in her bed, she just ate some lettuce with her friends too and took metacam and cisapride willingly, ripping the syringe out of my hands for more, I think she's addicted lol, she'll run a mile from the emeprid though.
This improvement has followed on to today, this morning she weighed 880g again and then went up to 913g after feeding. I only managed to get 5ml syringe feed in, she is fighting SO hard now and wants nothing to do with me, which is actually a good thing, at least I think so? She thinks she can handle herself now I guess and is eating well. Acting pretty much normal at this point.
I still try to get a little syringe feed in whenever I can before meds, but that's about it now, she's not being full time syringe fed now like she was before Monday.
Shes back at the vet on Thursday so I wonder how she'll be then and what the vet thinks, the true test will be stopping meds and hand feeding to see if she can hold her weight.
Very happy with her right now, she is little miss sassy pants like before surgery ❤
It has certainly been a very long, expensive and intensive recovery, but she's worth every second and penny. I still don't think we're completely out of the woods, still working on her appetite which is up and down and getting her to drink from the bottle herself again, but from yesterday morning to now there has been dramatic improvements that I thought were worth noting.
Last night she hit back up into the 900g's for the first time since surgery, weighing 917g, I was shocked seeing those numbers on the scale! She was 880g when I got her out of the cage, I syringe fed her around 8mls of CC and the rest of those grams came from her suddenly ravenous appetite that came out of no where. Yes it was syringe feed and veggies that got her up to 917g so mainly water weight, but for the entire week she has never weighed more than 880g even after syringe feed and veg.
For the first time she was seriously trying to fight me and start a war against the syringe feed, she kept giving me a dirty look and ate little pieces of hay she dragged out of the cage with her to prove a point that she didn't need the critical care.
She wanted to eat my entire fridge whole, I was there for almost 2 hours hand feeding her veggies, hay and porridge oats, she was a bottomless pit. Eventually I had to put her back because my legs and back hurt from sitting there so long, but she wasn't done eating...
I hope this continues, I love her being little miss attitude and demanding I go digging in the hay for the best parts (she refuses to get them herself, but eats it if I find them and hand feed it to her, spoiled much?
), this is the Melody that I know and love.Now she's wandering around the cage like she normally would, every time I go in she's in a different spot, which is a change too as before she just slept in her bed, she just ate some lettuce with her friends too and took metacam and cisapride willingly, ripping the syringe out of my hands for more, I think she's addicted lol, she'll run a mile from the emeprid though.
This improvement has followed on to today, this morning she weighed 880g again and then went up to 913g after feeding. I only managed to get 5ml syringe feed in, she is fighting SO hard now and wants nothing to do with me, which is actually a good thing, at least I think so? She thinks she can handle herself now I guess and is eating well. Acting pretty much normal at this point.
I still try to get a little syringe feed in whenever I can before meds, but that's about it now, she's not being full time syringe fed now like she was before Monday.
Shes back at the vet on Thursday so I wonder how she'll be then and what the vet thinks, the true test will be stopping meds and hand feeding to see if she can hold her weight.
Very happy with her right now, she is little miss sassy pants like before surgery ❤
My Piggies
Adult Guinea Pig
That's wonderful news
Roselina
Forum Donator 2025/26
Hope Melody is holding her own and eating and eating !
Good luck with her check at the vets tomorrow
Good luck with her check at the vets tomorrow
Dilly's Piggies
Teenage Guinea Pig
Hey guys I wanted to come back here and ask for some opinions on Melody again.
Her appetite and weight is messing with my head lol, one day she is eating well and gaining weight, the next day she has lost weight and doesn't want to eat. It is constantly up and down.
She was at the vet last Thursday and was doing extremely well, she got up to 900g herself and wasn't on syringe feed anymore, the vet pretty much gave her a clean bill of health and told me to stop her medication.
I stopped meds for one day and she tanked back down to 850g, so I started them again on Saturday but she hasn't gained back and is still having weight loss, weighing 828g today, the lowest she has ever been.
Its the weirdest thing because when I get her out, I always syringe feed and offer her favourite hay, veggies, fruits and she eats them without issue. It seems that when I put her back in the cage, she doesn't eat and only wants to eat when I have her out. She doesn't refuse anything I give her but only eats small amounts. She is still interested in food and wants to eat, but it seems like something is stopping her.
I checked her incision site today and it is swollen, hard, a little red and slightly warmer than the rest of her skin, there looks to be a small scab at the bottom with a bit of leakage, it's not severe but I'm wondering if an infection is a possibility. She is also extremely itchy and barbering herself, seems uncomfortable, she sits weird with her back legs right behind her front, when I pet her along her back she stretches out her back legs which is also weird. She seems in pain, she is still getting metacam, cisapride and emeprid.
She hasn't been prescribed any antibiotics, but is it worth a try, is an internal infection possible? I feel like euthanasia may come up soon if she doesn't improve but I don't think she is that far gone, she still wants to fight and live, but something is getting in the way of her weight gain. She acts normal, active, is pooping and peeing normally despite losing weight which is weird, her poops look better than some of my healthy pigs, so I'm honestly confused.
She is at the vet tomorrow but I just wanted to ask for opinions here on whether an infection may be interfering and whether antibiotics are worth a shot for Melody. I also don't know if a scan is worth doing to see whats going on inside.
Thanks❤
Her appetite and weight is messing with my head lol, one day she is eating well and gaining weight, the next day she has lost weight and doesn't want to eat. It is constantly up and down.
She was at the vet last Thursday and was doing extremely well, she got up to 900g herself and wasn't on syringe feed anymore, the vet pretty much gave her a clean bill of health and told me to stop her medication.
I stopped meds for one day and she tanked back down to 850g, so I started them again on Saturday but she hasn't gained back and is still having weight loss, weighing 828g today, the lowest she has ever been.
Its the weirdest thing because when I get her out, I always syringe feed and offer her favourite hay, veggies, fruits and she eats them without issue. It seems that when I put her back in the cage, she doesn't eat and only wants to eat when I have her out. She doesn't refuse anything I give her but only eats small amounts. She is still interested in food and wants to eat, but it seems like something is stopping her.
I checked her incision site today and it is swollen, hard, a little red and slightly warmer than the rest of her skin, there looks to be a small scab at the bottom with a bit of leakage, it's not severe but I'm wondering if an infection is a possibility. She is also extremely itchy and barbering herself, seems uncomfortable, she sits weird with her back legs right behind her front, when I pet her along her back she stretches out her back legs which is also weird. She seems in pain, she is still getting metacam, cisapride and emeprid.
She hasn't been prescribed any antibiotics, but is it worth a try, is an internal infection possible? I feel like euthanasia may come up soon if she doesn't improve but I don't think she is that far gone, she still wants to fight and live, but something is getting in the way of her weight gain. She acts normal, active, is pooping and peeing normally despite losing weight which is weird, her poops look better than some of my healthy pigs, so I'm honestly confused.
She is at the vet tomorrow but I just wanted to ask for opinions here on whether an infection may be interfering and whether antibiotics are worth a shot for Melody. I also don't know if a scan is worth doing to see whats going on inside.
Thanks❤
Dilly's Piggies
Teenage Guinea Pig
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