So, Silver is still not able to pick up long strands of hay or grass, I'm thinking there's some facial nerve damage going on, I have a feeling that losing Forrest caused a seizure or something as my vet did comment on more pronounced head and eye movements when he saw him, added to the difficulty picking up food seems to make sense.
So far he has been living off of soaked pellets, grated veggies and whatever small pieces of hay he can pick up. I did however order a sample box from somewhere, I cant remember what new website now but it only cost the price of postage so figured it was worth a try. Anyway it came with something called sweetgrass, a chopped dry grass that was quite soft.. which he seems to be eating very well, so I've ordered a big 15kg bag of something similar, hopefully he will be able to eat it.
I'm going to be getting Mabel to the vet next week to see about her sore bottom which has come back, and once she's more comfortable..providing she doesn't pull a Biscuit, I'll try her with Silver.
Poppets wound is looking very good and internally, has almost completely healed, there's a hole about the size of a matchstick head at the top, if not smaller, left to heal up and then just the skin layer to go. Her hair is also growing back nicely, amongst the dried manuka
Personally I've not been very well, I'm hoping it's just an iron deficiency, I've been told to take it easy for a while with regards to exercise, I've been flip flopping between being unable to stay awake and unable to sleep. I've got bloodwork on the 9th then I'll be speaking to a doctor about what's going on. So I'm really hoping that will help, because I've had to get help from a friend to keep up with cleaning out the piggies and I'm so tired of being too exhausted to continue doing everything myself.
Silver has taken his job of scaring me half to death very seriously lately and has been really perfecting his death naps, even my friend has had to stop a few times just to make sure he's still breathing!
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I'm pretty shocked to be honest, I know she was a bit of a ticking time bomb and she outlived way beyond what I was expecting, but I'm still very shocked and sad.
Hope Silver enjoys his sweet grass when it arrived and those teeth grow down and he can get chomping again
and he agreed with me that her bottom isn't infected. It does indeed seem to be blocked scent glands, or something very similar. A quick look online suggests it's probably her perineal glands, but the paste she should be smearing when she scent marks is sitting, drying out in the pockets either side of her anus and building up, causing discomfort. 
