Eriathwens piggies

She passed quite an amount of diarrhoea overnight but theyre back to almost normal now, all she was eating for a while was grass and veggies so no wonder really. Luckily she's already on probiotics so that resolved quite quickly. She's still eating hay and looking bright, I'm going to move her feeds to 6 hourly and hopefully be able to go all night without one, because I am so tired haha

Finley has an appointment at 11.45, one of his incisions has a suture sticking out and it appears infected which is frustrating, but I'm sure we will get that sorted quickly.
 
Hope Thistle is back on track now and all goes well for Finley.
Your piggies really don’t do anything by halves do they?
Holding you in my heart as you cope.
 
Thankyou, they really don't do they! Luckily Finley seems to be having a reaction to the suture material rather than having an abscess forming but hes been put on a precautionary course of antibiotics just in case. Poor mans got shaved bits again and had to have his temperature taken, he hasn't had a good day. I picked up some blueberries for them all so Finley has a nice treat after his probing 🤣

Thistles still doing well bless her, poops a bit soft but going in the right direction.

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Poor boy.
It’s not dignified having your temperature taken when you’re a piggy!
I’m pretty certain Merab was swearing at the vet when had to have her temperature taken!

Hope he’s ok. Glad that it’s nothing serious and your vet sounds very good
 
I've moved her hospital cage into the pen so she can spend time with her friends again ready to go back with them in a few days time if she continues to do well.
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I also found a hitchhiker on their chard, which comes from Spain..being non native it would be irresponsible to release him outside, possibly illegal too so I've called him Speedy and set him up in one of the old tanks I had for baby frogs.
He seems to have been squished a little at some point and has some shell damage, his veggies got some of my geckos calcium powder sprinkled on them to help fix him up, although he seems to have done a good job of healing so far without any help.

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Eriathwen said:
I've moved her hospital cage into the pen so she can spend time with her friends again ready to go back with them in a few days time if she continues to do well.
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I also found a hitchhiker on their chard, which comes from Spain..being non native it would be irresponsible to release him outside, possibly illegal too so I've called him Speedy and set him up in one of the old tanks I had for baby frogs.
He seems to have been squished a little at some point and has some shell damage, his veggies got some of my geckos calcium powder sprinkled on them to help fix him up, although he seems to have done a good job of healing so far without any help.

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Wow he has an interesting shell pattern, will have to look him up
Spanish Snail (Otala punctata)
 
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Wow he has an interesting shell pattern, will have to look him up
Spanish Snail (Otala punctata)
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That's him! What a name..Spanish snail 🤣 very inventive of whoever gave them that name haha glad I didn't release him, seems they're quite invasive. Let's hope he doesn't produce any babies during his life!
 
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I think snails of both sexes can produce babies? I wonder how long they live 😆
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Youre right, they can.. hopefully this one doesn't want children 😂 I imagine the poor thing won't live a full life, ive noticed a hole the other side of his shell which doesn't seem to be repairing like the other bits, he seems to dry out very easily too, he can't properly retract into his shell. Certainly eats well though.

Thistles friends look like they're planning to break her out of hospital 🤣 another couple of days to monitor her poops and I think she can go back in with them.

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So far they haven't implemented whatever plan they're concocting 🤣 shes doing really well though and has only lost about 60g since before her spay! She's eating well and seems to not be drinking excessively as she was before, she had some tooth discolouration which seems to be sorting itself out and the hair on her chest and right hand side seems to be regrowing really well. I bought some debittered brewers yeast for the hamsters and have given her a little bit too, its full of B vitamins and is meant to help with immunity, nervous system and hair regrowth so hopefully it will at least help her grow strong hair.
She has also had absolutely no tomato, ever.. in spite of what her mucky little face says! 🤣

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Also...a little Speedy side note, his shell is repairing really well. I've got some cuttlefish bone coming so he can eat as much as he likes, the powder I have doesn't seem to appeal to him.
Our Willow thinks I've gone a bit mad, rodents, reptiles and amphibians are one thing, apparently a pet snail is going too far 🤣

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Little Miss Thistle has gained enough weight to be back to her pre surgery weight! It feels very strange picking her up, she actually feels like a (thin) guinea pig, not a half filled water balloon, which she never has since we first got her. Her skin feels thicker still, her poops are a little up and down but she's getting there.

She has learned where the tomatoes are kept now and will happily just help herself when put on the scales 🤣🤦‍♀️

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Shes exceeded all my expectations bless her, very much thanks to the skills of my vet and his team. I put her back with her friends while I cleaned out her hospital pen and they all looked so happy I didn't have the heart to take her back out again, so she is now back in general population, I'll keep a close eye on her to make sure she's still eating and gaining weight but I think she will be OK.

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Look at that belly hair! Most she's ever had 🤣 keeping an eye on the top of her incision, it's a tiny bit inflamed but it's clearing up quite well, I think. Her 10 day post op phone call is tomorrow so I'll see what they think but it should be OK.

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Pippin and Fern have formed a lovely little friendship, but being a little skittish it's been near impossible to get nice pictures.. but I came out of their room having finished cleaning out their pen to find them having a cuddle, aren't they sweet?

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little Thistle looks so happy back with the clan again! her tummy looks good, wonder if it’s a little bit of stitch irritating her skin, they seem to go really course and hard before they dissolve, one of Bill’s stitches was a bit like that for a while
Beautiful photos x
 
I did wonder if it was possibly a bit of stitch, luckily it fell off yesterday and the skin underneath looks lovely and healthy, she had been losing about 10g a day but yesterday has started gaining again, so I wonder if it was causing her a bit of discomfort.

Finley went off to the vet yesterday, his incision still wasn't right, got a little bit of pus squeezed out which I need to do a few times a week for him until the sutures dissolve and hopefully the issue goes away. The alternative is apparently quite a risky surgery, which I don't really want to put him through. If the blood vessels shoot back into the body when the suture material is removed he may bleed out, unless he makes a second incision in the abdomen to clamp them but that's more time under aneasthetic, another incision to heal etc.. id rather wait it out as he's so well in himself.

Paddington went in today for a strange lump that appeared on his nose, my concern mainly was if it had an internal part that it was very close to his nasal passages and could cause him issues breathing. Luckily it seemed to just be a weird looking skin tag which was snipped off and cauterised. He was really well behaved bless him, barely blinked 😅

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