Josie_lg
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Hello, I hope I’m posting this to the right section. I’m just looking for a little bit of advice and re assurance for our little piggie hazel who lost her beloved friend on Friday morning. Sweet honey passed quite unexpectedly and very quickly after dealing with complex dental issues for the last year or so and having treatment at the cat and rabbit clinic. She had an issue with one of her molars and a small abscessation behind the molar in which the only fix was tooth removal so we agreed on management of her symptoms which was keeping the molars filed down with simon. She also had a nodule on one of her lungs but this was all from a CT from one year ago, so who knows what else was going on. Although we felt blessed every day we had her and knew we were on fairly limited time, we didn’t expect it to happen so soon and so quickly, I really thought we had longer left together. She was 6.
My piggie hazel has now lost all 3 of her sisters over the last few years and is now on her own. She is 6 too, but acts like a baby sometimes. She has never been alone and is normally a happy chatty relaxed piggie, who absolutely adored honey and couldn’t wait to help give her ears and eyes a groom when she was mid clean.
It’s been 4 days now since we lost her and I do feel that hazel is picking up a little bit, she is more chatty and has started to squeak for food again. I have ensured that no fleecey items have been washed and we have a few specific items that stayed with honey until the end so that they would smell of her. I have also bought a fluffy toy bunny that’s not much smaller than honey was so that she has something to snuggle into as they spent every time they weren’t active snuggled up in a bed together.
She’s had lots of extra attention and snacks and love from everyone. And we even left a little bit of honeys fur for her to smell for the first couple of days.
I just don’t know what we do from here, am I doing the right things? How best can I support her moving forward. I am worried she won’t have the best quality of life being on her own because she’s such a sociable piggie and always has been.
I am still in disbelief that honey has gone and feel like I’m coming out of the constant crying stage to being in denial, my brain keeps making me think she’s going to run up to me squeaking when I go over, she was such a big character always chatting SO friendly and just loved her cuddles and her fave foods and her sister.
She went so so fast, I feel like I didn’t have time to comprehend it. I feel like all the other piggies I’ve lost I saw deterioration, so it was partly expected if that makes sense, but with honey she was completely fine and then suddenly struggling with her breathing and went downhill so fast. She was still alert and able to move around just seconds before she left us. I’m finding it hard to come to terms with it I will be honest. But she was a 6 year old piggie with some complex dental issues
All the forums on here have been incredibly helpful I have read all of them now.
I would like to make a post on the rainbow bridge section when I feel ready to do so.
Any support or advice is very welcome.
My piggie hazel has now lost all 3 of her sisters over the last few years and is now on her own. She is 6 too, but acts like a baby sometimes. She has never been alone and is normally a happy chatty relaxed piggie, who absolutely adored honey and couldn’t wait to help give her ears and eyes a groom when she was mid clean.
It’s been 4 days now since we lost her and I do feel that hazel is picking up a little bit, she is more chatty and has started to squeak for food again. I have ensured that no fleecey items have been washed and we have a few specific items that stayed with honey until the end so that they would smell of her. I have also bought a fluffy toy bunny that’s not much smaller than honey was so that she has something to snuggle into as they spent every time they weren’t active snuggled up in a bed together.
She’s had lots of extra attention and snacks and love from everyone. And we even left a little bit of honeys fur for her to smell for the first couple of days.
I just don’t know what we do from here, am I doing the right things? How best can I support her moving forward. I am worried she won’t have the best quality of life being on her own because she’s such a sociable piggie and always has been.
I am still in disbelief that honey has gone and feel like I’m coming out of the constant crying stage to being in denial, my brain keeps making me think she’s going to run up to me squeaking when I go over, she was such a big character always chatting SO friendly and just loved her cuddles and her fave foods and her sister.
She went so so fast, I feel like I didn’t have time to comprehend it. I feel like all the other piggies I’ve lost I saw deterioration, so it was partly expected if that makes sense, but with honey she was completely fine and then suddenly struggling with her breathing and went downhill so fast. She was still alert and able to move around just seconds before she left us. I’m finding it hard to come to terms with it I will be honest. But she was a 6 year old piggie with some complex dental issues
All the forums on here have been incredibly helpful I have read all of them now.
I would like to make a post on the rainbow bridge section when I feel ready to do so.
Any support or advice is very welcome.
x
