Sue_P
Teenage Guinea Pig
@ Sodapops – I never said I didn’t believe anything you’ve said, I was just comparing our two cases.
Update: - Turns out I didn’t have the heart to put my rodents to sleep afterall. I decided not to put the black one down due to him not being at death’s door just yet and Niki saying that some rodents can cope fine after the death of its friend and you can never tell. & then I decided what the hell to money and to try surgery for the fudge coloured rodent. I mean I’ll be dishing out about £4000 on having my roof re-roofed for the third time in 4 years soon so a couple of hundred pound extra isn’t going to make all that much difference.
I’d probably regret it later anyway and if I have it in the bank then what better thing to spend it on. BTW, I didn’t say I couldn’t afford it.
When I got home from work last night his ear was in a worser state and I couldn’t see the polyp for puss so I booked him in at the vets at 8.30am this morning to go through the options. The vets options were: -
a.) Put it to sleep.
b.) Sedate it, clean out his ear and examine it properly and from there to either attempt to remove it during sedation, or to remove it with general anesthetic or to not remove it and try eardrops. He said ear drops may be a good way to manage the condition and future flare ups if the polyp stays but that they’re hard to get in. I told him I’d prefer to have the polyp out so he’s probo on the operating table right now with the vet having a good rummage inside his ear. He says if he thinks he can get it out under sedation then he will, it’s basically up to him and what he finds in there. In his opinion he thinks the polyp is oozing puss rather than puss being behind the polyp further down the ear canal but he’ll find out for sure later. I told him of my concerns about baytril getting dissed online and if the polyp is cut out then what antibiotic does he want him on and he sticks by baytril so that’ll be what I’m having. I imagine for this case it probably is a good drug to use though.
He also said there was an option to remove the ear canal altogether to prevent any further problems but that its complex surgery, he's more used to doing it on dogs and cats rather than smaller rodents.
So there you go. I’ll phone them later if they haven’t phoned me and see what the score is. I’ll report back.
Update: - Turns out I didn’t have the heart to put my rodents to sleep afterall. I decided not to put the black one down due to him not being at death’s door just yet and Niki saying that some rodents can cope fine after the death of its friend and you can never tell. & then I decided what the hell to money and to try surgery for the fudge coloured rodent. I mean I’ll be dishing out about £4000 on having my roof re-roofed for the third time in 4 years soon so a couple of hundred pound extra isn’t going to make all that much difference.
I’d probably regret it later anyway and if I have it in the bank then what better thing to spend it on. BTW, I didn’t say I couldn’t afford it. When I got home from work last night his ear was in a worser state and I couldn’t see the polyp for puss so I booked him in at the vets at 8.30am this morning to go through the options. The vets options were: -
a.) Put it to sleep.
b.) Sedate it, clean out his ear and examine it properly and from there to either attempt to remove it during sedation, or to remove it with general anesthetic or to not remove it and try eardrops. He said ear drops may be a good way to manage the condition and future flare ups if the polyp stays but that they’re hard to get in. I told him I’d prefer to have the polyp out so he’s probo on the operating table right now with the vet having a good rummage inside his ear. He says if he thinks he can get it out under sedation then he will, it’s basically up to him and what he finds in there. In his opinion he thinks the polyp is oozing puss rather than puss being behind the polyp further down the ear canal but he’ll find out for sure later. I told him of my concerns about baytril getting dissed online and if the polyp is cut out then what antibiotic does he want him on and he sticks by baytril so that’ll be what I’m having. I imagine for this case it probably is a good drug to use though.
He also said there was an option to remove the ear canal altogether to prevent any further problems but that its complex surgery, he's more used to doing it on dogs and cats rather than smaller rodents.
So there you go. I’ll phone them later if they haven’t phoned me and see what the score is. I’ll report back.
It can't have been pleasant for the little gentlepig but I'm sure he'll feel better now 
