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Meet Benny
Benny was one of a group of 18 piggies I took a few years ago after their owner didn't want them anymore and wanted rabbits instead.
Everything was fine to start with and then I noticed a hard lump developing under his chin. The lump turned out to be an abcess (clearly seen in the above pic). When it burst I brought him in and cleaned it all out. He lay on his back on my lap and let me clean it etc and never made a sound or struggled once. Then when I was cleaning it one time I noticed something poking out of it. At first I thought it was a bone but then realised there would be no bones in that area. I looked in his mouth and discovered he only had one bottom incisor, which was rather chunky and realised the thing sticking out of his neck was the other one. I took him to the vet who confirmed it was his incisor and he told me he had a problem where the incisor didn't grow as it should do and grew downwards and into his neck. He said he could cut the incisor back but it would eventually grow again causing another abcess and needing cutting again. I decided that I could'nt put him through the stress of repeated abcessess and having the vet go into his neck to cut the tooth back and so made the decision to put him to sleep. He was such a brave little piggy and was happy and could eat his food and carrots just like the other pigs could, but I couldn't let him go through the whole abcess process over and over. The only time he ever made a sound was when he wheeked when the vet gave him the injection :'(
Kat
ps, I stopped twice while writing this cos it made me cry
Benny was one of a group of 18 piggies I took a few years ago after their owner didn't want them anymore and wanted rabbits instead.
Everything was fine to start with and then I noticed a hard lump developing under his chin. The lump turned out to be an abcess (clearly seen in the above pic). When it burst I brought him in and cleaned it all out. He lay on his back on my lap and let me clean it etc and never made a sound or struggled once. Then when I was cleaning it one time I noticed something poking out of it. At first I thought it was a bone but then realised there would be no bones in that area. I looked in his mouth and discovered he only had one bottom incisor, which was rather chunky and realised the thing sticking out of his neck was the other one. I took him to the vet who confirmed it was his incisor and he told me he had a problem where the incisor didn't grow as it should do and grew downwards and into his neck. He said he could cut the incisor back but it would eventually grow again causing another abcess and needing cutting again. I decided that I could'nt put him through the stress of repeated abcessess and having the vet go into his neck to cut the tooth back and so made the decision to put him to sleep. He was such a brave little piggy and was happy and could eat his food and carrots just like the other pigs could, but I couldn't let him go through the whole abcess process over and over. The only time he ever made a sound was when he wheeked when the vet gave him the injection :'(
Kat
ps, I stopped twice while writing this cos it made me cry
