Squashface
New Born Pup
Our almost 6 year old pig Willow started hunching over and squeaking in pain when weeing on Thursday this week. We took her straight to the vet. He managed to manually extract some wee and tested it. He found blood and signs of stones. They kept her over night and did x-rays. They found 2 large bladder stones. They didn’t feel comfortable doing the surgery so referred us to a local exotics vet. The earliest they can fit us in tomorrow (Monday) for the surgery. They thought she was ok to wait til then.
So the problem is, since she came home she’s clearly in varying amounts of pain. She still squeaks loudly when weeing and pooing, and only a small amount comes out. It’s happens about every 10 mins at the mo. They upped her metacam to 0.26ml twice a day (the type for dogs) and she has antibiotics. When not weeing she’s less active but still eating and has been drinking a bit. She’s also been wandering around a bit and seems interested in her surroundings.
But I feel cruel leaving her in pain until tomorrow given we can’t increase the metacam. She’s an old pig, would it be fairer to put her to sleep? I feel so awful and sad suggesting that, but given she is clearly in pain, might not survive the surgery and the stones are likely to come straight back, is that the fairest thing given her age?
She used to weigh 1.2kg, so a big girl. But in the last year her weight has dropped to around 1kg to 1.05kg. We were told she was overweight and should reduce her treats and dry food. I have to admit we hadn’t weighed her recently because she was seeming fine until this week. But on Friday she had gone down to 875g, but has gone up to 890g this morning.
Any advice or thoughts would be very much appreciated.
So the problem is, since she came home she’s clearly in varying amounts of pain. She still squeaks loudly when weeing and pooing, and only a small amount comes out. It’s happens about every 10 mins at the mo. They upped her metacam to 0.26ml twice a day (the type for dogs) and she has antibiotics. When not weeing she’s less active but still eating and has been drinking a bit. She’s also been wandering around a bit and seems interested in her surroundings.
But I feel cruel leaving her in pain until tomorrow given we can’t increase the metacam. She’s an old pig, would it be fairer to put her to sleep? I feel so awful and sad suggesting that, but given she is clearly in pain, might not survive the surgery and the stones are likely to come straight back, is that the fairest thing given her age?
She used to weigh 1.2kg, so a big girl. But in the last year her weight has dropped to around 1kg to 1.05kg. We were told she was overweight and should reduce her treats and dry food. I have to admit we hadn’t weighed her recently because she was seeming fine until this week. But on Friday she had gone down to 875g, but has gone up to 890g this morning.
Any advice or thoughts would be very much appreciated.
Could you phone your vet and ask them if you can increase the metacam dosage?
and I’m sorry to hear of the stones.
