Just looking for some advice please! (Sorry for the long post but he's been poorly for 2 weeks!)
My 3 year old boar (Papanu's) wasn't himself 2 Sundays ago (1st) so I checked him over and he seemed fine, but was just in the corner with his hair fluffed up.
Checked him when I got in from work on the Monday and he had an impaction (first he's ever had) which I cleared, and then he'd built another one up by the time I went to bed, and had wet himself so booked him in with the vets on Tuesday.
Vet said he had a really full bladder which he managed to empty, and checked his urine and it was clear of UTI's and when he checked his gut it sounded healthy. His back was apparently a bit sore so he felt he'd injured himself somehow and thats why he wasn't using his back end properly. Gave him some metacam and advised to clear him out daily and see how he improved.
He was still impacting everyday (cleaning him out 3 tes a day) and the impactions were causing his willy to tuck inside himself and he was leaking urine when ever I cleared him out or touched his bottom. But he did seem much better in himself, was eating running about and I'd seen him drinking on at least one occasion.
On the Friday I managed to get him to do a wee by giving him a bit of a belly squeeze and he pee'd a fully sludge wee (orangy staining grainy horrible stuff). So back to the vets Saturday.
Vet reported his back seemed much better but again he had a really full bladder and when he emptied it out was really grainy and sludgy. Vet then thought he's now not weeing as alot of sludge has built up and it's uncomfortable so even though his back was better he wasn't wanting to poo and wee because of the sludge. He couldn't feel any stones.
He taught me how to empty his bladder properly and advised to up his fluids and clear him out and empty his bladder daily and keep up with the metacam and hope if we flush the sludge out he'll get back to normal.
I've been managing to empty his bladder daily and his still impacting constantly and leaking and his poor fur is so stained and wet I'm having to wash him every other day to stop him getting urine burn.
He's back at the vets Thursday and he said if he's no better he needs an x-ray and a bladder flush to see if we can get the sludge out and get him back to normal but I just feel there's something else going on here.
Is there anything else I can do to help him? Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Any thoughts on what could be causing it? I'm just at a loss really and he's really not happy having his bum and bladder fiddled with 3 times a day
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My 3 year old boar (Papanu's) wasn't himself 2 Sundays ago (1st) so I checked him over and he seemed fine, but was just in the corner with his hair fluffed up.
Checked him when I got in from work on the Monday and he had an impaction (first he's ever had) which I cleared, and then he'd built another one up by the time I went to bed, and had wet himself so booked him in with the vets on Tuesday.
Vet said he had a really full bladder which he managed to empty, and checked his urine and it was clear of UTI's and when he checked his gut it sounded healthy. His back was apparently a bit sore so he felt he'd injured himself somehow and thats why he wasn't using his back end properly. Gave him some metacam and advised to clear him out daily and see how he improved.
He was still impacting everyday (cleaning him out 3 tes a day) and the impactions were causing his willy to tuck inside himself and he was leaking urine when ever I cleared him out or touched his bottom. But he did seem much better in himself, was eating running about and I'd seen him drinking on at least one occasion.
On the Friday I managed to get him to do a wee by giving him a bit of a belly squeeze and he pee'd a fully sludge wee (orangy staining grainy horrible stuff). So back to the vets Saturday.
Vet reported his back seemed much better but again he had a really full bladder and when he emptied it out was really grainy and sludgy. Vet then thought he's now not weeing as alot of sludge has built up and it's uncomfortable so even though his back was better he wasn't wanting to poo and wee because of the sludge. He couldn't feel any stones.
He taught me how to empty his bladder properly and advised to up his fluids and clear him out and empty his bladder daily and keep up with the metacam and hope if we flush the sludge out he'll get back to normal.
I've been managing to empty his bladder daily and his still impacting constantly and leaking and his poor fur is so stained and wet I'm having to wash him every other day to stop him getting urine burn.
He's back at the vets Thursday and he said if he's no better he needs an x-ray and a bladder flush to see if we can get the sludge out and get him back to normal but I just feel there's something else going on here.
Is there anything else I can do to help him? Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Any thoughts on what could be causing it? I'm just at a loss really and he's really not happy having his bum and bladder fiddled with 3 times a day
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I have had a piggy with bladder sludge before but never portraying the symptoms you describe so I’m sorry that I have no advise.
