ghostbusterbunny
Adult Guinea Pig
This has taken me a week or so to be able to write, but it's something I need to write.
A week ago I lost two of my wonderful little girls to what we think was pneumonia. I found Tigger on the Tuesday (she was her happy self the day before) was at the vets almost immediately who said it sounded like the start of pneumonia...
The day after I found Bean practically collapsed and Jessie looking like she wasn't far off. The vet confirmed that it was the same thing... so straight on the antibiotics, syringe feeding and inside to keep Tigger company they came. By Thursday I was feeling quietly confident that Tigger and Jess would be okay, Bean was definitely a worry and being as old as she was...
Friday morning I came down in the morning to find that, to my complete shock, that Tigger had entered her forever sleep during the night... I was
[*]so[/*] confident that she was looking brighter and a bit more interested in things but clearly this nasty illness did more damage to her than I or the vet thought.
I got home on Friday and Bean and Jess were still with us. I syringe fed Bean as much as she'd take and swapped to Jessie. Just after I'd fed Jess I saw something I never want to see again in one of my pigs. Bean started to throw her head up with each breath and I knew exactly what was happening to her. I scooped her up, cuddled her, stroked her gently and willed her to go as quickly as she could.
I lost two of my girls in one day. I was, and still am, absolutely devastated by this.
I'm so sorry girls. I really hope you're pain free and enjoying life over the bridge with piggies past and looking over all your friends for me. It's safe to say that without you two, especially you Tigger, your herd wouldn't exist. For two little pigs you've left a pretty impressive legacy - a herd that will be a home to piggies that haven't had the best starts in life for many years to come.
This is what you two started, boy how it's grown since I took this picture just two and a half years ago...
Thank you, girls... for everything.
Thankfully it looks like we caught it in time for Jessie. She's still inside and making some dodgy noises (when she came home with me I called her the food detector as she makes quite low pitched nasally-grunty noises when she's snuffling about for something) but the vet is confident that she's shifted the chest infection - no chesty noises and no signs of a URI.
A week ago I lost two of my wonderful little girls to what we think was pneumonia. I found Tigger on the Tuesday (she was her happy self the day before) was at the vets almost immediately who said it sounded like the start of pneumonia...
The day after I found Bean practically collapsed and Jessie looking like she wasn't far off. The vet confirmed that it was the same thing... so straight on the antibiotics, syringe feeding and inside to keep Tigger company they came. By Thursday I was feeling quietly confident that Tigger and Jess would be okay, Bean was definitely a worry and being as old as she was...
Friday morning I came down in the morning to find that, to my complete shock, that Tigger had entered her forever sleep during the night... I was
[*]so[/*] confident that she was looking brighter and a bit more interested in things but clearly this nasty illness did more damage to her than I or the vet thought.
I got home on Friday and Bean and Jess were still with us. I syringe fed Bean as much as she'd take and swapped to Jessie. Just after I'd fed Jess I saw something I never want to see again in one of my pigs. Bean started to throw her head up with each breath and I knew exactly what was happening to her. I scooped her up, cuddled her, stroked her gently and willed her to go as quickly as she could.
I lost two of my girls in one day. I was, and still am, absolutely devastated by this.
I'm so sorry girls. I really hope you're pain free and enjoying life over the bridge with piggies past and looking over all your friends for me. It's safe to say that without you two, especially you Tigger, your herd wouldn't exist. For two little pigs you've left a pretty impressive legacy - a herd that will be a home to piggies that haven't had the best starts in life for many years to come.
This is what you two started, boy how it's grown since I took this picture just two and a half years ago...
Thank you, girls... for everything.
Thankfully it looks like we caught it in time for Jessie. She's still inside and making some dodgy noises (when she came home with me I called her the food detector as she makes quite low pitched nasally-grunty noises when she's snuffling about for something) but the vet is confident that she's shifted the chest infection - no chesty noises and no signs of a URI.
