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Learn To Inject 1 Piggy - Then Race It's Cagemate To Out Of Hours Emergency Vet! Arrgghh!

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After picking up my old lady pig Noodles from the vets at 6-30 tonight and being shown how to inject her - half way home her cagemate starts mewing quietly - get home - he wont eat a strawberry or lettuce - and then goes and sits facing a corner - on picking him up his tummy is sore - so off we go to the emergency out of hours local vet (who knows Nuggets well ) - and we are both of the opinion that it's either bloat or a blockage - so he is being kept in , ultrasounded for gas and given emiprid and metacam - with a promised phone call before 9am - why oh why couldn't he have started crying 20mins earlier after spending 2 days staying at the vets to keep his wifepig company - so fingers crossed for my crumbling spine pig :)
 
Oh - poor you ... and poor guineas. Fingers crossed for both of them.
 
Poor Mr Crumbly pig, really hope he's OK. He must be very miserable to be crying in pain - bless him he's in the best hands.

Never rains but it pours at times...
 
Just had the phone call - he rallied at about 1 am and started to eat , but he passed away at 4am - I think this might just push his cagemate over the edge as I think I am going to loose her too,she wont even eat grass now and seems to have lost interest.
 
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I am ever so sorry - what a nightmare for you!
 
What sad news. Having had dental piggies lose their mate and see them just want to give up, the only advice I can give you is, get her another friend asap. Do you have other piggies you could put her in with? My boy, Monty, who has severe dental disease, stopped eating and clearly was ready to give up when he lost his friend Ben, so I just popped him straight in with two other boars and bingo, he started to eat again and was happy.
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
What sad news. Having had dental piggies lose their mate and see them just want to give up, the only advice I can give you is, get her another friend asap. Do you have other piggies you could put her in with? My boy, Monty, who has severe dental disease, stopped eating and clearly was ready to give up when he lost his friend Ben, so I just popped him straight in with two other boars and bingo, he started to eat again and was happy.
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Her sister lives next door - they were my first two piggies - they were together for 3 years - at first Noodles was the underpig and then it was pretty even - i have a huge square ground level c & c set up split into 3 in my lounge - both Noodles and her sister (both bought from pets at home before I knew this forum existed ) were spayed within a month of each other - that meant the 2 single boars that I had could each have a wifepig - she can see and touch her "sister" through the bars if she wants - but isn't showing any interest - the boar that her sister is with is intact - so I cant put all 3 in together - he will constantly bar munch - should I try it? and should I clean out the cage Noodles is in at the moment to get rid of the smell of Nuggetts in case it is upsetting her? or is it a comfort - really don't know what to do - vet has said to try to get 50ml of cc into her - so far today she ate a small piece of cucumber on her own - 5 sprigs of corriander - a few spinach leaves (stalks only - could see things were sore for her as she couldn't chew the leaves - she has taken
5ml cc at 7-30 am
6ml at 12 0'clock
6ml at 2pm with 0.5 emiprid (to br given 8 hours & 0.5 vetigesic to be given every 8-10 hours
12mlscc at 4pm
5/6 mls cc at 6 pm
and just going to give some more cc before I go and collect my daughter

I just do't know what to do for the best
 
i have just picked her up and her breathing sounds crackly - and laboured - am going to ring the vet and take her in - there has been no poo output that i can see - i will let you know when i come back
 
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