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New Born Pup
Hi, I'm new here, I took one of my guinea pigs to the vets on Monday after we noticed she struggled to eat over the weekend, we also saw that one of her front teeth were slightly longer.
The vet did checks on her and told me her teeth at the back were too long and needed fixing.
I left Upsy with them, the vet rang me later telling me she was too swollen in her mouth for her to be comfortable doing it herself and asked if it was OK to send her to one of their other practices where a specialist could do it.
I had another phone call later that day to say that they have done most teeth but one set they couldnt do as she was too swollen and I got an appointment for Tuesday next week to finish it off.
I picked her up and was given rheumocam to give twice a day and also critical care food to feed her.
We really struggled feeding her and could only manage roughly 25 ml a day as she was fighting us so much.
So on Thursday afternoon when we only had managed about 10 ml all day and she had lost close to 80 grams since Monday we called the vet again and got an appointment an hour later. We were worried about her but she also has just been hiding in the cage not moving about at all.
A different vet checked her over, listened to her heart and stomach etc and she told us her guts had started slowing down. I left Upsy with them to stay over night so they could feed her and she said they were hoping to be able to finish off her teeth during the day on Friday.
They called up in the morning saying she had had a good night and plenty of food, and surgery scheduled for 3 o clock in the afternoon.
She was again sent to that other vet who did her teeth on Monday.
Had a phone call after they finished and we were able to pick her up in the evening. On the phone though she told us she has got root problems where her teeth are growing towards the rrots pushing into her jaws.
And if she doesn't get back to eating on her own again due to the pain then unfortunately they won't be able to do anything else for her and will be needed to be put down to sleep.
I have been given plenty of meds to give her twice a day, 2 for her gut, 2 pain reliefs and 1 antibiotics.
She is doing much better and we are able to feed her well. Yesterday we were able to giver her 40 ml of food and she had put a bit of weight on, she has always been on the small side at roughly 850 grams, yesterday evening before bed was a great success as we manage 9 ml in one sitting whilst earlier in the week we were lucky if we managed 2 ml.
We let her back in her cage, cleaned them out and she was really interested in the hay but unfortunately she didn't manage to eat any.
Even though she is eating better she is still more or less just hiding away in her cage not moving about apart from after we cleaned out her cage in the evening.
When could I expect her to become a bit more herself and when can I expect her to be able to start eating hay on her own again, I hand feed her some veg and some pellets which she manages ok, she tried some grass but struggles with that too. I will sit down a bit later with her to try to hand feed her some.
Also I've looked online about her teeth problems and it sounds very much like it could be elongated roots she has got. Does anyone have more information about how piggies cope with it and if there is anything you can do to help her.
She is only just over 3 years old and we are really not ready to give up on her but if that's what we have to do because it's the best thing for her than that's what we will do even though it's heartbreaking to just think about.
I'm so sorry about the long post and me rambling on just wanted to explain everything that's happened.
Thank you
The vet did checks on her and told me her teeth at the back were too long and needed fixing.
I left Upsy with them, the vet rang me later telling me she was too swollen in her mouth for her to be comfortable doing it herself and asked if it was OK to send her to one of their other practices where a specialist could do it.
I had another phone call later that day to say that they have done most teeth but one set they couldnt do as she was too swollen and I got an appointment for Tuesday next week to finish it off.
I picked her up and was given rheumocam to give twice a day and also critical care food to feed her.
We really struggled feeding her and could only manage roughly 25 ml a day as she was fighting us so much.
So on Thursday afternoon when we only had managed about 10 ml all day and she had lost close to 80 grams since Monday we called the vet again and got an appointment an hour later. We were worried about her but she also has just been hiding in the cage not moving about at all.
A different vet checked her over, listened to her heart and stomach etc and she told us her guts had started slowing down. I left Upsy with them to stay over night so they could feed her and she said they were hoping to be able to finish off her teeth during the day on Friday.
They called up in the morning saying she had had a good night and plenty of food, and surgery scheduled for 3 o clock in the afternoon.
She was again sent to that other vet who did her teeth on Monday.
Had a phone call after they finished and we were able to pick her up in the evening. On the phone though she told us she has got root problems where her teeth are growing towards the rrots pushing into her jaws.
And if she doesn't get back to eating on her own again due to the pain then unfortunately they won't be able to do anything else for her and will be needed to be put down to sleep.
I have been given plenty of meds to give her twice a day, 2 for her gut, 2 pain reliefs and 1 antibiotics.
She is doing much better and we are able to feed her well. Yesterday we were able to giver her 40 ml of food and she had put a bit of weight on, she has always been on the small side at roughly 850 grams, yesterday evening before bed was a great success as we manage 9 ml in one sitting whilst earlier in the week we were lucky if we managed 2 ml.
We let her back in her cage, cleaned them out and she was really interested in the hay but unfortunately she didn't manage to eat any.
Even though she is eating better she is still more or less just hiding away in her cage not moving about apart from after we cleaned out her cage in the evening.
When could I expect her to become a bit more herself and when can I expect her to be able to start eating hay on her own again, I hand feed her some veg and some pellets which she manages ok, she tried some grass but struggles with that too. I will sit down a bit later with her to try to hand feed her some.
Also I've looked online about her teeth problems and it sounds very much like it could be elongated roots she has got. Does anyone have more information about how piggies cope with it and if there is anything you can do to help her.
She is only just over 3 years old and we are really not ready to give up on her but if that's what we have to do because it's the best thing for her than that's what we will do even though it's heartbreaking to just think about.
I'm so sorry about the long post and me rambling on just wanted to explain everything that's happened.
Thank you
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