didipiggywiggly
Junior Guinea Pig
I am heartbroken.
I went into my piggy room this morning as I always do.on route to the kitchen to.put on kettle and to get my 5 piggy boys their veggie breakfast.
All came running to the edge of the frames wheeking and clambering ad usual for titbits and attention apart from Snowball who was laying prostrate under his fiddlestick arch making horrible breathing noises and shuddering.
After shouting for OH to get up and get into.pigs room, I had scooped him up in his fleece and he was really limp and poorly. I called my vet surgery (Taverham vets,
norwich ) and was told to.bring him straight in after trying to get a small dose of Metacam for the journey into him.
He was limp, distressed and barely able to swallow the pain killer, kept dribbling out.
We got him to the vet, about hour from us, and was seen almost straight away by Tom. Tom was thorough, handled my beloved pet and me sensitively as I was crying all over the place when he had checked out his chest and announced pneumonia. He gave him an IV dose of antibiotic and was so kind as he said that next 24hrs to try to get oral antibiotic, Vertark critical care and fluids into.him with as much love and attention as I could give. He feels he may succumb to this and tried to prepare me.
He requested I return in next 24hrs if he gets any more distressed as then must think of snowball overall picture and PTS. Told me to do all.these comfort measures. Give Metacam and pray.
PLEASE everyone pray with for my gentle little snowball. He was a rescue we got last summer from RSPCA and unsure of his age but had been neglected and poorly treated before he came to live with my gang.
Is there anything else I should be doing?
What did I do wrong? Everything so quick my head spinning and heart breaking.
I went into my piggy room this morning as I always do.on route to the kitchen to.put on kettle and to get my 5 piggy boys their veggie breakfast.
All came running to the edge of the frames wheeking and clambering ad usual for titbits and attention apart from Snowball who was laying prostrate under his fiddlestick arch making horrible breathing noises and shuddering.
After shouting for OH to get up and get into.pigs room, I had scooped him up in his fleece and he was really limp and poorly. I called my vet surgery (Taverham vets,
norwich ) and was told to.bring him straight in after trying to get a small dose of Metacam for the journey into him.
He was limp, distressed and barely able to swallow the pain killer, kept dribbling out.
We got him to the vet, about hour from us, and was seen almost straight away by Tom. Tom was thorough, handled my beloved pet and me sensitively as I was crying all over the place when he had checked out his chest and announced pneumonia. He gave him an IV dose of antibiotic and was so kind as he said that next 24hrs to try to get oral antibiotic, Vertark critical care and fluids into.him with as much love and attention as I could give. He feels he may succumb to this and tried to prepare me.
He requested I return in next 24hrs if he gets any more distressed as then must think of snowball overall picture and PTS. Told me to do all.these comfort measures. Give Metacam and pray.
PLEASE everyone pray with for my gentle little snowball. He was a rescue we got last summer from RSPCA and unsure of his age but had been neglected and poorly treated before he came to live with my gang.
Is there anything else I should be doing?
What did I do wrong? Everything so quick my head spinning and heart breaking.