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I need advice from anyone, please.
My boy Jeffrey is only about 11 weeks old. I noticed this morning as I got ready to take him out for floor time that he hadn't moved alot since I woke up. When I checked on him, he wasn't using his back legs at all and wouldn't move alot. He's dragging himself along on his front legs.
I rushed him to the vet within 10 minutes, and they said it might be a vitamin C deficiency (I only got Jeff less than a week ago- and had noticed he was quite fussy about veg and timothy hay- but had been trying my best to get him to eat bits) He was given a shot for the pain and I was told to use the dissolvable vitamin C tablets you get from the pharmacy, which I have.
Since then, however, he's eaten hardly anything, the only thing he's eaten is a bit of meadow hay. He will not drink the vitamin C water *or* regular water. I'm reading everywhere that it's bad to give him the vitamin c dissolved in water, but I don't know what to do as all the buses have stopped running and all the supermarkets near here are closed- so I can't get a syringe or anything!
Please, I really need help tonight. I'm really scared he won't make it...
My boy Jeffrey is only about 11 weeks old. I noticed this morning as I got ready to take him out for floor time that he hadn't moved alot since I woke up. When I checked on him, he wasn't using his back legs at all and wouldn't move alot. He's dragging himself along on his front legs.
I rushed him to the vet within 10 minutes, and they said it might be a vitamin C deficiency (I only got Jeff less than a week ago- and had noticed he was quite fussy about veg and timothy hay- but had been trying my best to get him to eat bits) He was given a shot for the pain and I was told to use the dissolvable vitamin C tablets you get from the pharmacy, which I have.
Since then, however, he's eaten hardly anything, the only thing he's eaten is a bit of meadow hay. He will not drink the vitamin C water *or* regular water. I'm reading everywhere that it's bad to give him the vitamin c dissolved in water, but I don't know what to do as all the buses have stopped running and all the supermarkets near here are closed- so I can't get a syringe or anything!
Please, I really need help tonight. I'm really scared he won't make it...