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2 year old boar whining when trying to pass urine or poops and making strange sound like an abrupt, harsh cough.

I’m a bit late to this thread. So I hope your piggie is much more comfy now. But if he is still very painful I really would take him back and ask for more pain relief. My girl is on gabapentin for her bladder. And I’ve heard good things about tramadol.
She had buprenorphine last week along with fluids to help flush sediment out and she had an awful reaction to the bupe since it is an OPIOD and was poorly for 2-3 days! So if bupe is offered just be cautious it can really make them sleepy and have a sedative effect.
But my vet was happy to give gabapentin. She told me she has been treating another piggie with spinal disease with gaba and he’d been doing well bless him.
She’s on nutracyst gabapentin metacam and potassium citrate and I really do feel she needs all of them to keep her somewhat comfy. I can’t say the potassium is doing much but I suppose it all helps.
Big hugs it’s so difficult caring for bladder piggies. It can be so sad but your doing all you can. Xx
 
Hi everyone,

Unfortunately I awoke to Dexter in even more extreme pain this morning. He was crying louder than I've ever heard, hunched up and making painful grunting noises. His entire body was almost jerking, it was awful.

This happened almost constantly over the course of an hour so rushed him to the vets. They said all they could do was open him up again to find out what was going on, so I made the most heartbreaking and difficult decision of my life and chose to put him to sleep.

My poor baby had suffered enough and I couldn't put him through anymore. I blame myself for his passing, afterall it was me who got him neutered when I didn't need to and since then he's had nothing but post op complications, 3 abscesses and 2 hernias. I hate myself for what I have done. At least now he is finally at rest with Susie and Heidi, his family that passed before him.

I just want to thank you all for your support during Dexter's time of need ❤️
 
Oh no 😞
You have done the kindest thing you could for him at the end. He will be grateful his suffering is finished and he's reunited with his girls over the Bridge 🌈
Please please don't feel like this is your fault. When we have pigs neutered it's very rarely 100% necessary for their survival. It's a choice we make to make their lives better knowing the risk, and many many of us have made that choice, me included. You weren't to know that you would be one of the unlucky few whose pig would have issues.
Every single decision you have made for him has been with love, and he will know that.
Rest in peace, sweet Dexter, you're free now ❤️
 
Please do not feel angry at yourself or Blame yourself. Every decision you have made was based on what you thought was right at the time. Take this time to focus on healing and please look after yourself. Big hugs xx
 
Just back online today after a short break and oh my gosh - you have had such a terrible time. But every decision you made was out of love to try and give your piggies the best chance in the future - that's all any of us can ever do. I know some rescues routinely neuter all their boys to prevent future piggy babies so it really does seem like a straightforward surgery, but of course sometimes things go wrong and we just can't predict it. Unfortunately here on the forum you see posts from those people who have had trouble but for most boars it's simple. It's the choice I'd have made - it's the choice I did make in the past with no complications. And at the end I'd have made the same choice to have Dexter pts because as time went on and things got more complicated he stood less and less chance of recovering. He is pain free now, but your heart must feel very bruised and battered. Give yourself time to get over this - and all the other things that have been going so wrong at what should have been a peaceful time of year. Be kind to yourself. On here we know how much a piggy can be loved, and Dexter will have known how much you cared for him x
 
Free Ranger said:
Just back online today after a short break and oh my gosh - you have had such a terrible time. But every decision you made was out of love to try and give your piggies the best chance in the future - that's all any of us can ever do. I know some rescues routinely neuter all their boys to prevent future piggy babies so it really does seem like a straightforward surgery, but of course sometimes things go wrong and we just can't predict it. Unfortunately here on the forum you see posts from those people who have had trouble but for most boars it's simple. It's the choice I'd have made - it's the choice I did make in the past with no complications. And at the end I'd have made the same choice to have Dexter pts because as time went on and things got more complicated he stood less and less chance of recovering. He is pain free now, but your heart must feel very bruised and battered. Give yourself time to get over this - and all the other things that have been going so wrong at what should have been a peaceful time of year. Be kind to yourself. On here we know how much a piggy can be loved, and Dexter will have known how much you cared for him x
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Thank you for your kind words. Your right, my heart does feel bruised and battered, I feel like since I lost Susie in September then Heidi in October and now Dexter just after Christmas, my heart just hasn't had time to heal. Grief is such an unbearable, terrible feeling.

In my head I know I had to let him go but there is still that part of me that thinks, why didn't I try more such as stronger painkillers etc but it just wouldn't have been fair to him. I know people are telling me that the outcome is not my fault and that I shouldn't blame myself but I just can't help feeling guilt.

I also felt guilt about Susie as it was the anesthetic she couldn't recover from after her spay, the guilt with Heidi was not acting sooner eventhough I didn't know anything was wrong and now Dexter, well I do blame the neuter and the multiple post op complications the poor boy had to endure. Life on our little ones can be so unfair, I just wish I could have taken on their pain myself x
 
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