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The vet has trimmed Daisy's front teeth quite short to try and correct the misalignment. She did this last Wednesday. As Daisy looked uncomfortable and was drooling quite a bit still we took her back yesterday. The vet gave us metacam and filed her back teeth slightly. Daisy looked happier when she came back and asked for the syringe food (I had added more selective pellets as the new extra ground hay mixture wouldn't go down the syringe). By the time I went to bed she looked uncomfortable again - I had given her nearly 60ml of food in 4 hours. This morning she looked fed up and her stomach sounded hollow so I gave her 0.2ml of zantac and 0.2ml of metacam plus more syringe food and water. She has pooed but they are few and far between and about Harrington's Optimum size and thin. Her bottom looked quite white and there was a little red fluid possibly blood. She has been moaning and lifting her bottom trying to poo. Should I give her some Emeprid? She has another appointment with the vet Friday afternoon.
 
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The vet has trimmed Daisy's front teeth quite short to try and correct the misalignment. She did this last Wednesday. As Daisy looked uncomfortable and was drooling quite a bit still we took her back yesterday. The vet gave us metacam and filed her back teeth slightly. Daisy looked happier when she came back and asked for the syringe food (I had added more selective pellets as the new extra ground hay mixture wouldn't go down the syringe). By the time I went to bed she looked uncomfortable again - I had given her nearly 60ml of food in 4 hours. This morning she looked fed up and her stomach sounded hollow so I gave her 0.2ml of zantac and 0.2ml of metacam plus more syringe food and water. She has pooed but they are few and far between and about Harrington's Optimum size and thin. Her bottom looked quite white and there was a little red fluid possibly blood. She has been moaning and lifting her bottom trying to poo. Should I give her some Emeprid? She has another appointment with the vet Friday afternoon.
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Please have her seen before that.

The poos reflect what has gone in in the 24-48 hours before pooing; it needs time to digest and process.
 
By Friday I mean tomorrow - sorry I wasn't clear. Have I overfed her based on the timescale?
 
Thanks Wiebke, Daisy would send you whiskery kisses but she's not happy with the way she looks right now
 
Let us know how she gets on at the vets tomorrow, wonder if she may have a infection down there? Or it could possibly be the hard poo's possibly causing a little discomfort as the guts will have slowed a little the Zantac will keep pushing things through so it's good you have some. How are the poo's coming through now?
 
Sorry for the delay in responding. Daisy had the spikes filed off her back teeth and her incisors are nearly meeting so the vet will see her again on Wednesday. Daisy gets cystitis when she is stressed and she had fishy smelling urine last weekend so we upped her water intake to flush it out. Poos are still thin and it takes until lunchtime for a mini flurry to come out from breakfast. She has eaten one poo this morning which is progress and has eaten a little of her favourite melon which we mashed up to make it easier for her. The vet has suggested trimming her incisors down to nearly gum level but I'm not sure if this will correct Daisy's teeth as they are growing curved.





If we do choose to have her teeth trimmed so short it means 3 weeks of syringe feeding while we wait for them to grow back. Personally we would prefer something to straighten her teeth and correct the underbite but as we have never done this before we don't know if trimming will work.
 
The travelling was starting to affect Daisy as it meant a five sometimes 6 hour round trip including the time in the vets every one - two weeks. Her cage mates were starting to get upset too - Auts has always been brilliant travelling with Daisy but she started squabbling as soon as we put her in the carrier, Dusty started losing weight and Ambam demanded a guarantee of fruit to travel with so despite operating a rota system it was starting to look like Daisy would have to travel alone. We started getting Helen at Kinver to do her teeth with Simon as a back up and since Helen moved we've been seeing Rosie at Womborne who is trying to lessen the amount of times Daisy has to have her teeth done.

I videoed Daisy chewing her syringe food as I'm trying to see if she is still favouring one side:



How are you Debbie?
 
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Thanks. Daisy has been having her teeth filed regularly for just over 18 months now and is stoic about it although I have seen quite a lot of her bottom lately as she gives me the cold shoulder!
 
I am fine, although it's been a very busy summer, as my pet business has really grown. I never envisaged it taking off as well as it has, and all the hard work of the past few years is now starting to pay off.

I have heard that Rosie is very good. My main concern with taking her incisors so short will mean she is going to struggle to eat, which means her other teeth won't be wearing so could potentially cause more problems than it would solve.
 
Our syringe mix contains 50% ground timothy hay following advice from Dave.The current batch also has ground oat, wheat and barley hay which is proving difficult to get out of the syringe meaning we are adding a few selective pellets to the mix and soaking it all together. Would this mixture not wear her teeth?
 
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