Squidge
Junior Guinea Pig
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I took on a boar a few weeks ago, I have no idea how old he is, but I'd make a guess at about 1-2 yrs old as his nails are still in the semi-nice phase 
...anyway...I noticed on the first day he was here that he had an impaction, when I cleaned him out all his poo's were really tiny, like baby piggie sized! So I figured they were getting stuck because of the size.
Then I realised that he wasn't eating, so I tried a different type of mix from my friend and offered him tons and tons of veg/hay/grass...Twice he completely soaked himself in urine and then when I was checking his bum I found that he had something stuck up his boy bits...so I removed it and hoped he would get a bit better after that...but 2 days later he was still not great, so I popped him along to the vets. He was treated for a UTI, baytril and metacam, and his teeth were checked, and he was weighed...965g's.
After the full course of treatment he was still loosing weight, so I took him to the vets again for a follow up, and to double check his teeth. He was weighed at 870g's...so had lost 100g's in a week...and wasn't eating properly still at all. The vet gave him a vitamin injection and told me to bring him back the next day for further tests.
He was sedated, had his teeth checked properly, x-ray, scan and bloods taken. Teeth were fine, liver and kidneys were fine, but when they looked at the x-ray they found that he had nothing in the top half of his digestive system (teeth were full of mushed up spinach, but nothing between his mouth and his intestines)...and that his intestines were completely full of poo. The vet gave me some ranitidine for him, and said that if he didn't pick up within the week then we needed to think about pts.
He's a lovely boy and I really really really didn't want to pts, so I tried him with all my boars to see if I could find him a friend (I have quite a few of them! ) and luckily managed to find him someone who he got on with...he was loosing more weight, even after the last vet appointment, and went really quiet and wasn't well at all after starting the medicine, but the friend piggie really perked him up, and now he's eating and coming up for kisses and head rubs xoxo
BUT...he's still not a great weight, he seems to have put a tiny amount on, but not very much...does anyone have any ideas as to what I can feed him that might help him bulk out? He's like a bag of bones at the moment 8... and I can't bare to see him like this 8...
This is my gorgeous baby boy...Squidge ...he's a black, cream and white roan/brindled sheltie
...anyway...I noticed on the first day he was here that he had an impaction, when I cleaned him out all his poo's were really tiny, like baby piggie sized! So I figured they were getting stuck because of the size. Then I realised that he wasn't eating, so I tried a different type of mix from my friend and offered him tons and tons of veg/hay/grass...Twice he completely soaked himself in urine and then when I was checking his bum I found that he had something stuck up his boy bits...so I removed it and hoped he would get a bit better after that...but 2 days later he was still not great, so I popped him along to the vets. He was treated for a UTI, baytril and metacam, and his teeth were checked, and he was weighed...965g's.
After the full course of treatment he was still loosing weight, so I took him to the vets again for a follow up, and to double check his teeth. He was weighed at 870g's...so had lost 100g's in a week...and wasn't eating properly still at all. The vet gave him a vitamin injection and told me to bring him back the next day for further tests.
He was sedated, had his teeth checked properly, x-ray, scan and bloods taken. Teeth were fine, liver and kidneys were fine, but when they looked at the x-ray they found that he had nothing in the top half of his digestive system (teeth were full of mushed up spinach, but nothing between his mouth and his intestines)...and that his intestines were completely full of poo. The vet gave me some ranitidine for him, and said that if he didn't pick up within the week then we needed to think about pts.
He's a lovely boy and I really really really didn't want to pts, so I tried him with all my boars to see if I could find him a friend (I have quite a few of them!
) and luckily managed to find him someone who he got on with...he was loosing more weight, even after the last vet appointment, and went really quiet and wasn't well at all after starting the medicine, but the friend piggie really perked him up, and now he's eating and coming up for kisses and head rubs xoxoBUT...he's still not a great weight, he seems to have put a tiny amount on, but not very much...does anyone have any ideas as to what I can feed him that might help him bulk out? He's like a bag of bones at the moment 8... and I can't bare to see him like this 8...
This is my gorgeous baby boy...Squidge
...he's a black, cream and white roan/brindled sheltie
