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Dental Botched tooth trim, mouth ulceration, unable to eat

Gigi and Quinn said:
Thank you, I tried the porridge oats but she turned her nose up at them. Is that raw sweet potato or?

Wow, that’s a long time without your precious boy. I hope he’s all better now ❤
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Yes grated sweet potato x Ted will need on going treatment, atm it’s every two weeks, but he is fine and eating well
 
At 13:15 today dearest Rosie passed over the rainbow bridge. I’ve tried to write this post a few times now but can’t put how I feel into words. I will post another time about what has happened. Though I knew it was unlikely my sweet girl would recover, she was a badass little piggie with such a strong spirit right up until the end. Thank you to everyone that has supported us in this thread.
 
Thank you for your messages. Rosie was a very sweet, mischievous and cuddly pig. Each guinea has such a unique personality and Rosie was a huge character and it feels very quiet without her. Missing her a lot and just so sad I couldn’t save her. I’ve felt a lot of guilt that I failed but I know I did everything I could.

I think her sisters understood how poorly she was because Mavis in particular, (on the right) stayed with her all night and day before I took her to be put to sleep by my vet. You can just see Rosie’s black bottom is smushed between Quinn and Mavis in the first photo.

Thanks again for the messages, lots of people don’t understand why someone would be upset over a small animal but everyone on here knows how infinitely special and precious these piglets are. 💕✨

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Sad to say I‘m still having a bad time with my vets that haven’t taken my complaint about the botched dental on Rosie seriously, or bothered to respond besides a call to say someone else was handling it - though this person has never been made known to me - and vaguely saying the vet that did the bad dental has decided not to do guinea pigs teeth again.

When Rosie’s condition worsened I decided it was time to let her go and took her to the same vet because I’ve had good service from them for 10 years until now. They were respectful and helpful on the day she died but then I phone a week later to ask if her ashes are ready for collection and the receptionist didn’t know she was deceased, there was no record of it and they had to go look for her! She’d be left in the fridge forgotten about like old pasta! I wrote to them again reiterating my complaint and haven’t heard anything so my next step is to take it higher.

I can’t tell you how upset I am that she was “lost” and abandoned in the fridge. I’ve lost all confidence and trust in my vet and need to find somewhere else to take my pets (I have looked on the vet locator). Why are guinea pigs treated as second class citizens! They have the same lifespan as my dog and just as important. I can’t believe they ever gave her back to me in such a horrific state with the teeth saying the procedure had gone great! I wasn’t impressed with City Vets in Exeter either. Feels like I don’t have anywhere to turn. I have one more vet to try. Why aren’t there more piggy specialists! 😔 I wish I hadn’t taken Rosie back there, my poor sweet girl dumped in the fridge. It makes her loss so much harder to bear.
 
Gigi and Quinn said:
Sad to say I‘m still having a bad time with my vets that haven’t taken my complaint about the botched dental on Rosie seriously, or bothered to respond besides a call to say someone else was handling it - though this person has never been made known to me - and vaguely saying the vet that did the bad dental has decided not to do guinea pigs teeth again.

When Rosie’s condition worsened I decided it was time to let her go and took her to the same vet because I’ve had good service from them for 10 years until now. They were respectful and helpful on the day she died but then I phone a week later to ask if her ashes are ready for collection and the receptionist didn’t know she was deceased, there was no record of it and they had to go look for her! She’d be left in the fridge forgotten about like old pasta! I wrote to them again reiterating my complaint and haven’t heard anything so my next step is to take it higher.

I can’t tell you how upset I am that she was “lost” and abandoned in the fridge. I’ve lost all confidence and trust in my vet and need to find somewhere else to take my pets (I have looked on the vet locator). Why are guinea pigs treated as second class citizens! They have the same lifespan as my dog and just as important. I can’t believe they ever gave her back to me in such a horrific state with the teeth saying the procedure had gone great! I wasn’t impressed with City Vets in Exeter either. Feels like I don’t have anywhere to turn. I have one more vet to try. Why aren’t there more piggy specialists! 😔 I wish I hadn’t taken Rosie back there, my poor sweet girl dumped in the fridge. It makes her loss so much harder to bear.
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I’m so sorry for what you’ve been through and empathise, I know it is absolutely soul destroying trying to find a decent vet who can do guinea pig dentals properly. I live in West Cornwall and had two dental piggies (both with entirely separate problems) and I have absolutely no confidence in any around me. Ted has had two GA dentals in the past locally three years apart and both were truly awful. the last one performed in lock down when we couldn’t travel was done by a highly Respected Excotic Vets and it was actually worse than the first one done by a standard general vet. My Bill had a problem incisor and Jess at Brixham filed his incisor down on several occasions and did a good job for him. Ted has problem molars and I would have used her in an emergency if Simon was not available. The only vet I completely trust with my piggies teeth is Simon Maddock in Northampton. It’s a nightmare journey done every couple of weeks now, luckily we share it with another couple with a dental piggie, but our turn comes around very quickly and it’s an epic 600 mile round trip we have to make for Ted’s sake otherwise he would have to be PTS too.
Your poor little Rosie left in a fridge is totally appalling, you must feel distraught at the lack of compassion and respect for your much loved girl, I’m so sorry, I think you need to speak to the top person at that practice and get some answers x
 
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