Critical Care, confused?

[Teema]

Hi everybody, sorry me again regarding Pipsqueak and the bladder sludge saga! We have ran out of critical care and the last bag we had was out of date so had to be chucked! Until Amazon can get us a delivery, we asked the vet if there was anything they can give us. They have given us CCF Critical Care Formula by Vetark. I have never seen this before and just worried it’s not what we really needed because I thought the idea was to basically give her what she would get from eating her hay and this doesn’t look like it would do that? Any thoughts?
If it’s no good will just need to go to mashed pellets until Amazon delivers. Thankyou!

 

[weepweeps]

Can you take a picture of the back too?

 

[Teema]

Sorry my partner has just gone to collect it from the vet so this was all he sent me. He says it is like a white powder inside and has protein and glucose on ingredients? Think he’s gone back to the vet, what a palava!

 

[Piggies&buns]

Not something I’ve seen before it looks to be dextrose with protein. …not what you need. You need a fibre rich recovery feed.

In the absence of critical care, you can mush up their normal pellets with water to make a slurry.
You will need to cut the tapered end off a syringe as the mixture is much coarser than critical care so doesn’t go through syringes so easily.
It’s the emergency alternative though

 

[Wiebke]

Hi everybody, sorry me again regarding Pipsqueak and the bladder sludge saga! We have ran out of critical care and the last bag we had was out of date so had to be chucked! Until Amazon can get us a delivery, we asked the vet if there was anything they can give us. They have given us CCF Critical Care Formula by Vetark. I have never seen this before and just worried it’s not what we really needed because I thought the idea was to basically give her what she would get from eating her hay and this doesn’t look like it would do that? Any thoughts?
If it’s no good will just need to go to mashed pellets until Amazon delivers. Thankyou!

As long as it is for rabbits, it will also be OK for guinea pigs (small herbivores/exotics)

 

[weepweeps]

I’ve just started giving pepper pellet mush and he’s eating it off my fingers

As they already know the taste of their pellets they seem happy to try it. Make is quite dry though.

 

[Teema]

Crisis averted! And partially my fault, when I rang the vet I said the words ‘critical care’, I forgot that what they use is actually ‘recovery plus’. So to be fair they did give me a type of critical care just not the one we were expecting! Science Select Recovery Plus it is, thankfully we don’t need to be making poo soup and pellet mush today! Thanks again everyone, sorry I know I have been a total pain on this forum recently! Thanks so much as always. xx

 

[Teema]

And yes weepweeps our senior girl Penny loves mushed up pellets! We were giving her the leftovers last time our wee board Thomas was poorly, she went nuts for it!