Bloddy pig!

Oh no! Poor little Blod, bet it’s the AB’s, syringe feeding at the ready slave. Hope she starts eating soon x
 
Oh dear! Blodders you have caused your Mummy and Daddy so much worry you need to start eating again or you won't get better.
 
Oh Blod you little troublesome beauty! Great if she’ll eat it off the spoon with no stress, my Jess would do it too and so much easier than being an evil, forceful pig mum! Aw I really hope she feels a bit better and gets scoffing more by herself soon @PigglePuggle :hug:x
 
Blod! Be a good girl for your piggy slave! Eat your noms! Get better soon little one. 🐹❤
 
Rutland House vets suggested they wanted to admit her as an in patient but I'm very reluctant to do that because she would be very stressed and I think all she needs is some gut stimulant prescribing, and recovery food and probiotoc shovelling in her mouth several times a day while watching her bum for poops... she's got an appointment with the local vet tomorrow anyway...
 
PigglePuggle said:
Rutland House vets suggested they wanted to admit her as an in patient but I'm very reluctant to do that because she would be very stressed and I think all she needs is some gut stimulant prescribing, and recovery food and probiotoc shovelling in her mouth several times a day while watching her bum for poops... she's got an appointment with the local vet tomorrow anyway...
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I think you are right, I’ve seen so many piggies go downhill when they’ve been admitted into 24 hour care, better with her friends. Start getting that syringe food into her every few hours x
 
All the best for the appointment tomorrow. Stay perky Blod, you won’t be s at bed from your home to spend 24 hours in a stinky place.
 
After the initial panic I think we've got this, just got to get that poorly piggy routine going on! So I'm still going to offer proper meals twice a day and hay all the time obviously but the new routine is going to be:

7.30am offer breakfast, if not eaten feed at least 5 ideally 10mls recovery food
9am nasty meds but offer nice veggies afterwards
10.30am fibreplex plus 5 to 10mls recovery food, offer veg again, try hand feed tasty strands of hay too
... then repeat with dinner or syringe feed at 4.30pm, meds 6pm, then syringe feed and probiotic and hand feeding treats at 9pm after piggy daddy's evening work shifts.

Hopefully that's enough to keep her guts moving... we did have a breakthrough this evening when after 10mls critical care at 4.30pm there were 12 poops and the distinctive aroma of caecotrophs by 6pm meds time!

Think we just werent prepared for the doxycycline wiping out her appetite, but her breathing sounds completely clear so we have the right medicines its just the tummy... easier to support guts than breathing at home though at least :)
 
PigglePuggle said:
After the initial panic I think we've got this, just got to get that poorly piggy routine going on! So I'm still going to offer proper meals twice a day and hay all the time obviously but the new routine is going to be:

7.30am offer breakfast, if not eaten feed at least 5 ideally 10mls recovery food
9am nasty meds but offer nice veggies afterwards
10.30am fibreplex plus 5 to 10mls recovery food, offer veg again, try hand feed tasty strands of hay too
... then repeat with dinner or syringe feed at 4.30pm, meds 6pm, then syringe feed and probiotic and hand feeding treats at 9pm after piggy daddy's evening work shifts.

Hopefully that's enough to keep her guts moving... we did have a breakthrough this evening when after 10mls critical care at 4.30pm there were 12 poops and the distinctive aroma of caecotrophs by 6pm meds time!

Think we just werent prepared for the doxycycline wiping out her appetite, but her breathing sounds completely clear so we have the right medicines its just the tummy... easier to support guts than breathing at home though at least :)
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Hope it goes well for Blod tomorrow, sounds like you’ve got your routine sussed x
 
Hoping we get a good syringe feed after piggy daddy's evening care calls, I've got a fibreplex and SS recovery plus cocktail smoothie mixed ready and a really good sawn-off 2ml syringe that seems to be working well for Blod so paws crossed we can fill her up with poopy fuels before bedtime!
 
We want to see those nice round (less stringy) poops Blod. Be good and take all your meds and feeds. And try some hay and veg, you may actually like it. 😘
 
Blodwen thanks everyone for all their kind thoughts and good wishes, she's doing much better this morning, she was eating hay and crunching on a carrot cottage when I woke up, then she ate a lettuce leaf and went straight back in the hay after medicines! The are many poops too, some a bit small and mis-shapen but not too bad.
I'm still going to do the syringe feeds and probiotics twice today to make sure but crisis averted I think :)
 
Only just seen this thread. Sorry Blob was having a tough time but sounds like she's heading back in the right direction now. Sending lots of healing wheeks from Eddie and Elvis 💕
 
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