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New Born Pup
Hi,
We have two girls, roughly seven months old. They’re house piggies, bedded on fleece.
Two to three weeks ago, one of our girls started drinking increasingly. We’re now getting through about 70ml of water a day in the water bottle. I haven’t seen our other girl use the water bottle for weeks, and although I know she could be drinking some of it, our thirsty girl is definitely at the bottle again and again and again.
Any ideas if this is the symptoms of something serious?
We feed them two large bowls of mixed veg daily (large = enough for some left over when they’ve finished gorging themselves on it). Made up of curly kale, lettuce (romaine or little gem) and peppers, with varied amounts of cucumber , carrot, cabbage, broccoli, sugarsnap peas, etc. for variety. Occasional fruit (apples or grapes or suchlike twice a week). They have unlimited access to hay and Burgess tasty nuggets with mint.
Some changes that may have coincided with the drinking beginning – We changed from Alfalfa King Timothy Hay to HayForPets Ings hay. We introduced tasty nuggets with mint instead of ordinary tasty nuggets. We started using romaine lettuce (but have tried switching back to little gem with no difference). She’d also not long come off a course of Baytril because she may have had a respiratory infection (she sounded a bit clicky when sniffing, the vet couldn’t here anything irregular but gave both girls a ten day course of antibiotics just in case).
She doesn’t seem incontinent, as I can have her out for cuddles for 20 minutes at a time without her wetting. No evidence of diarrhoea. No squeaking or crying when she uses the litter tray, no evidence of blood in the urine.
One thing we have noticed is she tends to go straight from the nuggets to the water bottle, while still chewing. And stands ‘chewing’ the water after using the bottle, so it could be she’s using it to soften the pellets.
She’s an Abyssinian. We have noticed the fur under her chin getting a little hard, and she does sometimes have a little wet fur around the undersides of her back legs when picking her up. Just occasionally though. Despite us swapping the fleece out every other day and it never getting wet.
What should we be thinking here? Vet time?
We have two girls, roughly seven months old. They’re house piggies, bedded on fleece.
Two to three weeks ago, one of our girls started drinking increasingly. We’re now getting through about 70ml of water a day in the water bottle. I haven’t seen our other girl use the water bottle for weeks, and although I know she could be drinking some of it, our thirsty girl is definitely at the bottle again and again and again.
Any ideas if this is the symptoms of something serious?
We feed them two large bowls of mixed veg daily (large = enough for some left over when they’ve finished gorging themselves on it). Made up of curly kale, lettuce (romaine or little gem) and peppers, with varied amounts of cucumber , carrot, cabbage, broccoli, sugarsnap peas, etc. for variety. Occasional fruit (apples or grapes or suchlike twice a week). They have unlimited access to hay and Burgess tasty nuggets with mint.
Some changes that may have coincided with the drinking beginning – We changed from Alfalfa King Timothy Hay to HayForPets Ings hay. We introduced tasty nuggets with mint instead of ordinary tasty nuggets. We started using romaine lettuce (but have tried switching back to little gem with no difference). She’d also not long come off a course of Baytril because she may have had a respiratory infection (she sounded a bit clicky when sniffing, the vet couldn’t here anything irregular but gave both girls a ten day course of antibiotics just in case).
She doesn’t seem incontinent, as I can have her out for cuddles for 20 minutes at a time without her wetting. No evidence of diarrhoea. No squeaking or crying when she uses the litter tray, no evidence of blood in the urine.
One thing we have noticed is she tends to go straight from the nuggets to the water bottle, while still chewing. And stands ‘chewing’ the water after using the bottle, so it could be she’s using it to soften the pellets.
She’s an Abyssinian. We have noticed the fur under her chin getting a little hard, and she does sometimes have a little wet fur around the undersides of her back legs when picking her up. Just occasionally though. Despite us swapping the fleece out every other day and it never getting wet.
What should we be thinking here? Vet time?
