So sorry that you lost Yorkie but i do believe what you did was the right discision. Big hugs for you and Dave x
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It's not great news for Yorkie...
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Cgilchrist
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OHH Hun i'm so sorry. at least he went peacefully and you didn't have to watch him slowly deteriorate and suffer any more massive hugs hun x
Niki
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Oh Amy i am so so sorry 
I am thinking about you & Dave
Sleep in peace Yorkie x
I am thinking about you & Dave
Sleep in peace Yorkie x
I'm so sorry to hear about yorkie, dont blame yourself you were only doing what needed to be done to prevent yorkie from suffering any further. You are a fantastic piggy mommy and you did your best for him, sending you big hugs.
R I P Yorkie xx
R I P Yorkie xx
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I am so very sorry that you lost Yorkie Please do not blame yourself as nobody new that he wouldn't make it.
I lost a piggy last year after I put her through an Op. I thought she was doing so well but she died 5 days later.
Sending you huge hugs x
Please do not blame yourself as nobody new that he wouldn't make it. I lost a piggy last year after I put her through an Op. I thought she was doing so well but she died 5 days later.
Sending you huge hugs x
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I am so sorry that Yorkie hasn't made it - it is so hard to accept it when a piggy doesn't wake up from an op; there is this enormous feeling of guilt. But you wouldn't have put him under without VERY good reason and no other option. It's an experience I have had myself and it hasn't been easy to cope with.
Having had a bladder stone piggy myself, I know how excrutiating the pain from the stone would have become in the not very far future; at least that has been spared him!
You have done your very best with your ill boy and you haven't failed him.
I am so sorry that Yorkie hasn't made it - it is so hard to accept it when a piggy doesn't wake up from an op; there is this enormous feeling of guilt. But you wouldn't have put him under without VERY good reason and no other option. It's an experience I have had myself and it hasn't been easy to cope with.
Having had a bladder stone piggy myself, I know how excrutiating the pain from the stone would have become in the not very far future; at least that has been spared him!
You have done your very best with your ill boy and you haven't failed him.
threelittlepigs
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Dear Amy,
I'm so sorry to read this but you did absolutely the right thing. Boars have narrow urethers and cannot pass bladder stones easily. If Yorkie has a massive stone sooner or later it would have tried to come out on its own and sadly Yorkie would at that stage have died an extremely painful death.
You did all you could for him and he had the best possible chance. An operation was the only humane treatment option, but it was not risk free.
*hugs* I have been following his thread and was really rooting for the little chap.
I'm so sorry to read this but you did absolutely the right thing. Boars have narrow urethers and cannot pass bladder stones easily. If Yorkie has a massive stone sooner or later it would have tried to come out on its own and sadly Yorkie would at that stage have died an extremely painful death.
You did all you could for him and he had the best possible chance. An operation was the only humane treatment option, but it was not risk free.
*hugs* I have been following his thread and was really rooting for the little chap.
Poor Dave. It was his first night without his best friend I worried about him all night. I have put him in the run, and he has been there about 1 and a half hours and hasn't step foot outside of his tube. Not once.
Him and Yorkie are usually popcorning around and eating the grass and destroying everything
Gosh it's so hard for both of us. I really don't know what to do about Dave... he's so lonely already
I worried about him all night. I have put him in the run, and he has been there about 1 and a half hours and hasn't step foot outside of his tube. Not once. Him and Yorkie are usually popcorning around and eating the grass and destroying everything
Gosh it's so hard for both of us. I really don't know what to do about Dave... he's so lonely already
Cgilchrist
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Poor Dave. It was his first night without his best friend
Him and Yorkie are usually popcorning around and eating the grass and destroying everything
Gosh it's so hard for both of us. I really don't know what to do about Dave... he's so lonely already
As hard as it will be for you might be best to try and get him a friend fairly soon so he's not lonely for too long. I left Perry for 8 months and he became more and more reclusive now he has a friend he has started to wheek again and even did a little popcorn x
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