Post dental Duke needs your good wishes!

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Today this handsome little dude Duke aka Duck had dental work on his molars! Poor chap had no hay before he got here and his molars had bridged, trapping his tongue. How he was holding a steady weight and eating so well is a mystery!

Poor guy is a bit dazed and wobbly thanks to his super strong painkiller but he's had some critical care and seems hungry for it. All his veg is cut into tiny pieces and he managed to pick up a piece of lettuce and eat it by himself! I've even crushed his nuggets for him 😁 He's had a drink from his bottle too.

He was quite happy to waddle about the house rumble strutting at the neighbours aka Eric and Miley, scent marking everywhere and headbutting me out of his way 😂

Please send him all your well wishes and get well soon prayers ❤️ The sleepy boar in question!
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Thanks for your well wishes for Duke everyone!
He’s much brighter today, enjoyed some floor time earlier on and has been enjoying his syringe food.
He ate a few tiny pieces of veggies and herbs overnight last night however is still really struggling to pick up and chew anything solid, although it’s only been twenty four hours! He’s started drinking from his bottle and truffled around in his hay, although I don’t know if he actually ate anything.
He’s such a good boy :love:

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When Ted had his first dental with GA he struggled to eat for a long time. Incisors cut too short, but I hand fed him grass, dandelion leaves, beetroot strips out of Bistro Salad which he managed to eat better than anything. I used to roll any leaves up like a cigar, which he found easier than a flat leaf. Hope this might help. Sending healing vibes to little Duke x
 
My Toby was struggling to pick up last week, I found strips of food really help (I'm sure your already doing this). I also offer hay (normally the grass seed bit) that's his favourite and put it in his mouth although he can eat hay on his own I just like to encourage him to forage.

Come on Duke continue getting better, good news he's keen on syringe food.
 
Oh, that’s a lot of weight loss, let’s hope he will now start to eat properly. I used to give Ted lots of top up feeds. At this lowest he was 1107gms he now is a rather hefty 1345 gms, all down to Simon Maddock and a second successful conscious dental.
 
So Duke is going back to the vets this afternoon. He seems to be losing more weight and is now very slim. He desperately wants to eat and will gingerly pick up bits of carrot, pepper, lettuce, you name it, take it under his little house and proceed to pick up and put down but he just can’t chew it. He will gingerly nibble if you hold it but not even leave teeth marks. We’ve tried big bits, small bits, different shaped bits, we’re currently blanching his favourites to blend up and syringe feed him. Tried to syringe feed critical care which he normally likes earlier but he really struggled and got upset.
What else can we do? He’s on Metacam at the moment for the pain, and he’s still making terrible grinding noises with his teeth.
We’ve phoned the cat and rabbit clinic however no one was available to give advice over the phone, so we may need to book him in there if our current vets can’t help. I feel like an X-ray to look at his teeth would help but he’s so thin I don’t know whether he should go under another anaesthetic.
His breath is also starting to smell so we’re just hoping ketosis hasn’t set in.
Poor Duke :( everyone please pray for him to get better :(
 
Oh, poor boy. Maybe a trip to see Simon might help? I can’t suggest anymore ideas for getting him to feed, but Ted was wanting to eat but couldn’t after his first GA dental when they cut his incisors so short he couldn’t pick anything up, and once in his mouth he would drop food back out again. It was so upsetting to watch. Had to syringe feed him small amounts for a good month till his front teeth had grown back. Then we went to see Simon in July last year. Within 10 minutes of dental he was eating hay for first time in 2 months.

I’m sure you are more experienced than me with piggies. I would just try get as much Critical Care into him as possible? What about fine oats? Does piggie ketosis smell the same as human (nail varnish), he will be burning up his fat deposits, due to lack of carbs. Good luck with poor Duke, hope he picks up soon x
 
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