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Is this breathing normal?

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Piggies2023

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Pumpkin is rocking slightly in time to her breath. But if I get her out she acts completely normal. It's when she's in the cage she sways backwards and forwards. Does this look wrong? Video isn't great with it being in the cage.
 
Piggies2023 said:
Pumpkin is rocking slightly in time to her breath. But if I get her out she acts completely normal. It's when she's in the cage she sways backwards and forwards. Does this look wrong? Video isn't great with it being in the cage.
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Hi

I would recommend to have Pumpkin vet checked to be on the safe side if this is regular and not just a one off.
 
Wiebke said:
Hi

I would recommend to have Pumpkin vet checked to be on the safe side if this is regular and not just a one off.
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Thank you. I'm thinking of emailing my vet with a video tomorrow. She's been very unwell with multiple things. So then I was doubting myself as to whether I only noticed because I'm keeping a close eye. But never seen this in any other videos I've taken and I've been keeping a close eye for quite a while now. We are at the vets at least once a week at the moment and it's exhausting. It's like we get on top of one thing and something else happens.
 
She's been doing this all evening. But when I get her out she stops. Back in the cage she restarts. But she hates coming out currently as she thinks I will do mean things to her like clean her wound.
 
Piggies2023 said:
She's been doing this all evening. But when I get her out she stops. Back in the cage she restarts. But she hates coming out currently as she thinks I will do mean things to her like clean her wound.
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See how she is tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. This is not an emergency; a few hours are not what I would call 'regular'.
 
She has been prescribed a diuretic. I'm worried it's cancer that may have spread. Hopefully it's nothing but I've not seen her do this before. She had sarcoma in her uterus, removed a month ago. But she seems mostly healthy. Had some pain squeaking but the scan had shown some sludge so probably that. But otherwise she's eating like anything.
 
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