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Poorly Puggle- acute bloat :(

Thanks everyone! She's had her evening meds and eaten a few pellets and a bit of hay but I'm going to try encourage a bit more critical care spoon licking/hand feeding hay and pellets before bed. The vet said not to force her to syringe feed just yet, rather encourage her to eat both critical care and real food for the first 24hours seeing as this is quite sudden and she's had lots of subcutaneous fluids, we'll reassess tomorrow and see how her tummy sounds. But she's done a few poops (which I am collecting and treasuring!) and eaten a bit of proper food (a few pellets and hay strands at a time, but 3 times in 6 hours now) without any obvious pain so I'm quite relieved so far :)
 
I hope your Puggle makes a speedy & full recovery. Your vet sounds amazing and very responsive. Wish my vet had been like this and my Dukey might still be here. 😢💔
 
Well its all looking good because my daughter is here and she put Puggle in the cuddle couch on the coffee table while she had dinner with a big pile of hay and the rest of the critical care formula in a dish with pellets floating in it and Puggle has tipped the critical care over herself, licked it off, eaten the pellets and most of the hay, and she looks very pleased with herself!
Here's my daughter and Puggle, they are both tired but well fed :)
 

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Well its all looking good because my daughter is here and she put Puggle in the cuddle couch on the coffee table while she had dinner with a big pile of hay and the rest of the critical care formula in a dish with pellets floating in it and Puggle has tipped the critical care over herself, licked it off, eaten the pellets and most of the hay, and she looks very pleased with herself!
Here's my daughter and Puggle, they are both tired but well fed :)
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21 fairly normal looking Puggle poops in the cuddle couch at bedtime! Thats all in an hour and a half spent with my daughter who pretends she isnt keen on animals but has secret horse, goat and piggy whispering skills she prefers not to mention to her friends :) she's called Rhiannon for any welsh mythology followers...
 
Puggle is wheeking at the hospital cage bars outraged that her friends are eating cucumber and she hasnt had any! Lots of hay eaten and poops produced overnight and most reassuringly she hasnt weed in the snuggle sack, all the wee is in the corner with most of the poops.
Vet check at 11.30 today then hopefully she can go back in the big cage and join her friends :)
 
The vet says Puggle is well enough to go back with her friends! She's lost a bit of weight (30g) so we need to weigh her daily and keep syringe feeding her a bit and keep on with the Zantac for a few more days but she's probably going to be fine :)
 
PigglePuggle said:
Oh dear Puggle is very poorly... she was fine last night but this morning she was shivering and whimpering and when we lifted her out of the cage she hunched her back and started squealing in pain and her tummy felt really hard.
So straight off to the vets (they were very good and said bring her in immediately as an emergency) and the first thing they did was give her a big injection of opiate pain relief, then an xray confirmed big gas bubbles in her poor little tummy, she's had subcutaneous fluids, zantac to get her guts moving, and we have to syringe feed and also try feed mushed up pellets with grated carrot (because thats her favorite food) then watch out for poops happening.
Got another vets appointment for tomorrow to see how she's doing.
Poor little Puggle! I think there was something dodgy about the coriander we ate yesterday, I've had an upset tummy too and the other piggies have very smelly poops...
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Fingers crossed for a full recovery xx
 
PigglePuggle said:
The vet says Puggle is well enough to go back with her friends! She's lost a bit of weight (30g) so we need to weigh her daily and keep syringe feeding her a bit and keep on with the Zantac for a few more days but she's probably going to be fine :)
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I've been following this thread and am so glad that it's good news today! Keep up the good work Puggle :)
 
So to hopefully sign off on Puggle's awful scary bloat episode (and in case somebody who doesnt know searches the forum about bloat in future) poor Puggle could have died in agony and if anyone wonders whether to take a severely bloated piggy to the vet please go straight away as an emergency!
Also if anyone wants a good piggy vet in Liverpool then Dr Clare Bartram from Penny Lane Vets4Pets is wonderful, she saved little Puggle and did a great job neutering Theo as well :)
 
Bloat can strike so quickly, cause such pain and is so dramatic. It is a true, full blown emergency. The sooner you can Vet help the better. Well done for spotting it and for getting such prompt vet treatment.

Just be wary, though, it can come back just as quickly once you have a bloaty pig. Be very careful about introducing greens again to see if you can find the trigger.

I’m just so thrilled that Puggle has rallied and is in such safe hands. She is one very lucky piggy.
 
VickiA said:
Bloat can strike so quickly, cause such pain and is so dramatic. It is a true, full blown emergency. The sooner you can Vet help the better. Well done for spotting it and for getting such prompt vet treatment.

Just be wary, though, it can come back just as quickly once you have a bloaty pig. Be very careful about introducing greens again to see if you can find the trigger.

I’m just so thrilled that Puggle has rallied and is in such safe hands. She is one very lucky piggy.
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Yes we were very lucky we could see a good vet straight away and she responded so well to the zantac. I'm fairly sure it was just a bad bunch of coriander she ate rather too much of, but we're going to have at least a week with no leafy veg then be very careful how much she gets. She's so much smaller than the other piggies its very tempting to hand feed her something everytime we walk past the cage, but that's no good for her so we need to be much more careful from now on!
I think with it being back to school/work/uni week we were all maybe feeding too much veg in the evening to make up for lunchtime snacks disappearing...
 
Aww, so glad your Puggle is making a good, steady recovery. 💕
 
Here's a rather skinny but hopefully mended Puggle sitting on daddy and refusing a syringe feed because she can hear Jezebel wheeking from the next room wondering where she has gone.
Puggle is such a herd creature, she'd rather eat half a meal on the run while Clover tries to pinch it than have a full bowl of pellets to herself away from her friends!
Jezebel has missed her so much, but Theo didnt notice she was gone until she came home and he was so pleased to see her he tried humping her in the ear and she bit him exactly where he deserved it :)
 

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Here's a rather skinny but hopefully mended Puggle sitting on daddy and refusing a syringe feed because she can hear Jezebel wheeking from the next room wondering where she has gone.
Puggle is such a herd creature, she'd rather eat half a meal on the run while Clover tries to pinch it than have a full bowl of pellets to herself away from her friends!
Jezebel has missed her so much, but Theo didnt notice she was gone until she came home and he was so pleased to see her he tried humping her in the ear and she bit him exactly where he deserved it :)
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:lol!::gp:How many of us ladies would dare to do similar if our menfolk got a little bit 'fresh'?! Attagirl, Puggle!
Glad she is on the mend, anyhow!
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
:lol!::gp:How many of us ladies would dare to do similar if our menfolk got a little bit 'fresh'?! Attagirl, Puggle!
Glad she is on the mend, anyhow!
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When we first put her back in the big cage I was a bit worried because Theo was so... attentive, and Piggle who is in season and thinks she claimed Theo in Puggles absence was a bit snappy (well... thats a bit of an understatement, she was like a rabid hormone-fuelled tasmanian devil actually) but Puggle had much more attitude than usual, she was like, "I cheated death and had a thermometer shoved up my bum twice, think these teenage antics can faze me?!" and she stood her ground and snapped right back and leaped on the carrot house roof and sprayed pee in Piggle and Theo's faces and shoved Clover out of the food bowl and was generally like a tiny 710g ginger wonder woman :)
 
PigglePuggle said:
Puggle had much more attitude than usual, she was like, "I cheated death and had a thermometer shoved up my bum twice, think these teenage antics can faze me?!" and she stood her ground and snapped right back and leaped on the carrot house roof and sprayed pee in Piggle and Theo's faces and shoved Clover out of the food bowl and was generally like a tiny 710g ginger wonder woman :)
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She's certainly feeling a lot better! :)):)):))
 
Couldn’t stop laughing at the way you describe your herd’s behaviour.
So glad Puggle is ok now
 
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