Tiamolly123
Senior Guinea Pig
Are you syringeing water as well?
-
Discussions taking place within this forum are intended for the purpose of assisting you in discussing options with your vet. Any other use of advice given here is done so at your risk, is solely your responsibility and not that of this forum or its owner. Before posting it is your responsibility you abide by this Statement
Bladder Stone Removal Surgery
- Thread starter Pepepig
- Start date
- Status
I've wanted to, but I haven't out of fear of aspirating him. I just read somewhere not to syringe water, because apparently they can easily choke on it? Since this is our first time hand feeding, we didn't want to risk it. I'm sure if you know what you're doing it's fine. His new medication is pretty runny and almost like water anyway, so maybe we should try. We have been feeding him pretty watery food instead, it kind of needs to be fairly runny and thin to come through the syringe anyway. I made a mash out of cooked carrot and broccoli today, he seems to really prefer real food, not that critical care or mashed up biscuits. We still feed him a couple of shots of critical care for the fiber, but he's been having more of the mashed fresh banana, and then today these cooked veg. As he doesn't mind so much, he's much more tolerant of us popping it in his mouth. He did eat 3 biscuits by himself this afternoon. That's so little, it's hardly worth noting down, but he ate something on his own. Its a small step for human, giant step for gin.
Yey, today at breakfast he took a nibble of broccoli and ate a little bit of hay, I think he might have had a couple of biscuits too, but I couldn't tell as he was facing the wall! Still only a little but at least he's done it more than once, which gives me some hope that his belly is getting back to normal.
D
DM030819
Small amounts are good. It shows that his teeth are okay and his stomach is feeling better.
I'm so happy for you both. Keep on chewing Pepe!
I'm so happy for you both. Keep on chewing Pepe!
Tiamolly123
Senior Guinea Pig
Dont worry it seems as though he's coming through it. Hope it all goes well.
You may need to keep syringing food, until he is eating well.
You may need to keep syringing food, until he is eating well.
Definitely, we will continue syringe feeding until he is eating with more fervor. Right now, it's just a very slow nibble, and tiny pieces, so not nearly enough to keep him going. I'll probably just syringe a little less according to how much he eats in between feeds,and keep this up for a few days yet. I'm just so relieved he finally started eating. I can't thank you all enough for the support you've provided, it's meant so much to have this additional advice on hand.
Vets are great, but guinea pig owners are the masters of post-op after-care, which (I now know) can be more complicated and challenging than the operation. I hope he's onward and upwards from here, but it's looking good so far.Man it's been a rough 3 weeks, but the little chap is finally back to normal. I have cried so many tears for this little guy. He was so, so ill. I never imagined a gin could make it back after what he went through. I thought we were going to lose him more than once. Each time he seemed to improve, I thought he was out of the woods, but the next day, he would take a turn for the worst. It was awful until today really. Even though I posted a few times that he seemed to be improving, it was a long and torturous road for him. I sat with him so often with tears streaming down my face, holding a syringe full of food for him, him sitting hunched over in pain, not wanting to eat at all, I could totally feel his desire to give up. I was willing for him to get better, telling him he must get better! Well, he made it. And as promised, here's a little clip of him getting back into his favourite thing of all, FOOD!
- Status