We Finished His Medication...

[KaitlinH]

you may recognise me and Rupert from another thread where I spoke about him toppling over all the time. Well his medicine worked and he was seeming better... until today. I found him lay really funny and he looked really uncomfortable so I got him out and he was floppy on the one side for a while and he has a crusty eye and nostril on one side but then he livened up. So we put him back in. We were about to put their pellets in for the night as I give them a few to stop them form going crazy in the middle of the night and thought I’d check him. Now he’s lay on my lap tilted to the one side with his paws out infront of him. We tried to manoeuvre his paws but he’s having none of it. Any ideas what this could be?

Before he was on Septrin for an ear infection but the vet said it could be neurological x

 

[Wiebke]

Hi! It looks like it is not an ear infection. Please contact the vet again; you have excluded the most common one that can kill or permanently damage if left untreated. Any vet will first and foremost treat for those potential killers before they consider the more tricky to diagnose and treat avenues.

I am very sorry. He may have had a fit or a stroke. Please check on him and if necessary offer him syringe feed and water if he is not able to eat and drink on his own. Check his food intake by weighing daily at the same time in the feeding cycle instead of weekly. Keep in mind that around 80% of the daily food intake is hay, which you simply cannot control. Nor is chewing on crud an indication that your piggy is eating normally. You start with offering top up feed once a piggy loses more than 50g in a matter of days.
Not Eating And The Importance Of Syringe Feeding

 

[KaitlinH]

His is how he’s standing now I’m not supporting him in the blanket x

 

[KaitlinH]

Hi! It looks like it is not an ear infection. Please contact the vet again; you have excluded the most common one that can kill or permanently damage if left untreated. Any vet will first and foremost treat for those potential killers before they consider the more tricky to diagnose and treat avenues.

I am very sorry. He may have had a fit or a stroke. Please check on him and if necessary offer him syringe feed and water if he is not able to eat and drink on his own. Check his food intake by weighing daily at the same time in the feeding cycle instead of weekly. Keep in mind that around 80% of the daily food intake is hay, which you simply cannot control. Nor is chewing on crud an indication that your piggy is eating normally. You start with offering top up feed once a piggy loses more than 50g in a matter of days.
Not Eating And The Importance Of Syringe Feeding

We’re booking him an emergency appointment for tomorrow. I have weighed him and he is fine. I’m always finding him munching on hay. He ate a load of veg a few hours ago but we will keep checking on him during the night x