Oh dear that BLODDY PIG...!
Has abruptly stopped eating
Eating hay fine this afternoon, gave her the evening meds, served dinner... she ate 3 pellets and a quarter of a cucumber slice then walked off, nibbled one strand of hay... and then tensed up and pulled the face of tummy upset, went and sat facing a corner looking sad...
I guess this may be a doxycycline thing...? She's never stopped eating before!
So I encouraged her into a fleecy house that catches poops well to monitor output, and a couple of hours later we do have poops and her tummy is soft, but... wont eat.
Luckily I found a tube of fibreplex in the piggy first aid kit drawer that I panic bought just in case during the first lockdown, gave her a bit...
So another sleepless night, then tomorrow's plan is:
8am frusol, doxycycline, loxicom, bisolvon
Try encourage eating
10am fibreplex
Monitor poops and tummy, phone vets
Maybe some recovery food?
Clean out all the piggy cages...
Then repeat the meds
Encourage eating or syringe feed
More fibreplex
...and repeat. Daily. For ages.
I really wish Bloddy Pig (aka the chlamydia duck of doom) would just stop all this and get better...!