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Kanga Pig was put to sleep on Monday morning.
She had a UTI earlier this year, and the vet thought there was very likely something very serious going on also. She thought possibly diabetes, but the blood test said no. The vet then said that Kanga was probably growing a tumour somewhere, and we should be ready for a decline.
Kanga went on very well for about three months and fooled us into thinking that maybe the vet had been wrong. At the end of last week she went a bit quiet, and when I weighed her she had dropped a LOT of weight. That was Sunday, and that was the day she started diarrhoea. On Monday that was bloody, and when we weighed her in the surgery she had lost another 75g. She weighed 775g, which is half what she weighed in her prime.
The way she looked at the vet's, I don't think she would have lasted long in any case, but she was helped on her way in a peaceful manner, and we have her home for burial next to her sister Binky.
Kanga had a rough start in life, and had survived not only being born during the Beast from the East, and losing her mother at an early age, but also major surgery. She was the last of the piggies that I had from Erica at Little Pip's rescue. We named her Kanga because she did a lot of bouncing about when she was happy, and she was still bouncing up until last Friday. Kanga's portrait won this year's Craft-a-piggy competition so she did achieve fame & fortune
Kanga was a lovely cuddly pig and is very much missed by us all, especially Fifi Fluffybottom.
She had a UTI earlier this year, and the vet thought there was very likely something very serious going on also. She thought possibly diabetes, but the blood test said no. The vet then said that Kanga was probably growing a tumour somewhere, and we should be ready for a decline.
Kanga went on very well for about three months and fooled us into thinking that maybe the vet had been wrong. At the end of last week she went a bit quiet, and when I weighed her she had dropped a LOT of weight. That was Sunday, and that was the day she started diarrhoea. On Monday that was bloody, and when we weighed her in the surgery she had lost another 75g. She weighed 775g, which is half what she weighed in her prime.
The way she looked at the vet's, I don't think she would have lasted long in any case, but she was helped on her way in a peaceful manner, and we have her home for burial next to her sister Binky.
Kanga had a rough start in life, and had survived not only being born during the Beast from the East, and losing her mother at an early age, but also major surgery. She was the last of the piggies that I had from Erica at Little Pip's rescue. We named her Kanga because she did a lot of bouncing about when she was happy, and she was still bouncing up until last Friday. Kanga's portrait won this year's Craft-a-piggy competition so she did achieve fame & fortune
Kanga was a lovely cuddly pig and is very much missed by us all, especially Fifi Fluffybottom.
Sleep tight Kanga x
