little noises (possibly from the nose?!)

Instead of worrying about illness all the time, just try to accept that they are healthy as they are. See your time with them as a learning exercise about their normal little quirks instead of over-researching and panicking with every little thing that is new and slightly unusual. Then, when you are familiar with their normal range, it is easier to spot when something is really amiss.

yeah i’m starting to think that its this more and more rather than an actual illness! do you think i’m making the right decision still taking them to the appointment or do you think i should maybe cancel and re-book if i notice other symptoms?

PS: You can cancel if you feel comfortable in yourself to do so.
 
Instead of worrying about illness all the time, just try to accept that they are healthy as they are. See your time with them as a learning exercise about their normal little quirks instead of over-researching and panicking with every little thing that is new and slightly unusual. Then, when you are familiar with their normal range, it is easier to spot when something is really amiss.

PS: You can cancel if you feel comfortable in yourself to do so.



thankyou Wiebke, i need to remind myself that!
i think i’m just so worried about things going unnoticed because piggies obviously are good at hiding illnesses, i wouldn’t be able to forgive myself if anything happened that i could have prevented.
 
thankyou Wiebke, i need to remind myself that!
i think i’m just so worried about things going unnoticed because piggies obviously are good at hiding illnesses, i wouldn’t be able to forgive myself if anything happened that i could have prevented.

Just concentrate on learning what is normal for them before you start worrying about illness. I promise you, you won't miss the signs of isomething major being amiss, but spending your time constantly looking out for illness means that you are negating many of the benefits that pet keeping does bring you and instead you are turning pet keeping just into a whole new playing field for your anxiety to go wild on.

Please accept that we are contacted very often over an illness or health issue, so illnesses are very much over-representated on this forum and generally online. People don't post about everyday normal good health, which the vast majority of piggies actually are, day in and day out.
Most of my own around 80 piggies have spent their lives being perfectly and very unexcitingly healthy, and a fair number of them never had a single health issue all their life long, or only a comparatively minor and easy to correct/controlled/managed issue or two.
Don't sit there and wait for illness to happen. It's not worth it because you are wasting a lot of time you could have more profitably spent enjoying your piggies. Be more aware of your own mind being naturally drawn to the dark side and being wired to instantly leap to the worst case scenario at least hint or whiff. Try to consciously counter this and learn to recognise the much bigger trap in your own mind.
 
Just concentrate on learning what is normal for them before you start worrying about illness. I promise you, you won't miss the signs of isomething major being amiss, but spending your time constantly looking out for illness means that you are negating many of the benefits that pet keeping does bring you and instead you are turning pet keeping just into a whole new playing field for your anxiety to go wild on.

Please accept that we are contacted very often over an illness or health issue, so illnesses are very much over-representated on this forum and generally online. People don't post about everyday normal good health, which the vast majority of piggies actually are, day in and day out.
Most of my own around 80 piggies have spent their lives being perfectly and very unexcitingly healthy, and a fair number of them never had a single health issue all their life long, or only a comparatively minor and easy to correct/controlled/managed issue or two.
Don't sit there and wait for illness to happen. It's not worth it because you are wasting a lot of time you could have more profitably spent enjoying your piggies. Be more aware of your own mind being naturally drawn to the dark side and being wired to instantly leap to the worst case scenario at least hint or whiff. Try to consciously counter this and learn to recognise the much bigger trap in your own mind.


i cannot thank you enough for this, i really appreciate what you have said and i agree.

wow 80 pigs! thats great and really reassuring. you are right, i instantly think the worst in every aspect of my life and it’s definitely something i need to learn to control as its not good, draining in fact, thank you again for everything.
 
i cannot thank you enough for this, i really appreciate what you have said and i agree.

wow 80 pigs! thats great and really reassuring. you are right, i instantly think the worst in every aspect of my life and it’s definitely something i need to learn to control as its not good, draining in fact, thank you again for everything.

It is not quite easy to control but you can train yourself (and your partner) to spot the signs and remind you/yourself of what is happening. That will already go a fair way when you can recognise the pattern and hopefully be able to take a deep breath.

That is why we recommend to shift the whole health monitoring away from an anxiety sufferer. ;)
 
It is not quite easy to control but you can train yourself (and your partner) to spot the signs and remind you/yourself of what is happening. That will already go a fair way when you can recognise the pattern and hopefully be able to take a deep breath.

That is why we recommend to shift the whole health monitoring away from an anxiety sufferer. ;)

yes that sounds like a great plan, thankyou!
 
Sorry for the late reply but I wanted to apologize for my misinformation earlier as I reading back the thread. On another forum I was told 100g was okay to fluctuate and with common knowledge you would think it wouldn't be.

Always good to learn something new!

Glad your girls are doing better :)
 
Sorry for the late reply but I wanted to apologize for my misinformation earlier as I reading back the thread. On another forum I was told 100g was okay to fluctuate and with common knowledge you would think it wouldn't be.

Always good to learn something new!

Glad your girls are doing better :)

no worries!
thankyou - at the vets now just to be safe!
 
so we’ve been to the vets and it was just a case of one paranoid mummy!
i will be taking all tips given to me to help with the anxiety around my girls health and try to remember to not think of the worst straight away.
i think because of what my girls went through in the first few months (Lunas abscess and Dellas bladder stone, as well as the lice!) its just got me reading up on every little thing i notice and as you know, google is the worst thing you can do! i’ll take this as a learning curve and remember in the future not to panic or jump to them being poorly straight away.
 
You're not the first nor the last to take a pet to the vet for a case of concerned pet parent. One of our dogs has been to the emergency vet twice for nothing noteworthy to be wrong ... once it was for funny smelling urine, and the tests came back "rather unexciting," and once it was for some funny motions she'd made, which of course stopped by the time she got to the vet and had left no indication there was anything wrong (there was another dog there that same evening that was diagnosed with ... harmless gas, so nothing actually wrong with that dog either, lol).

Here's to hoping your girls will be healthy from here on out!
 
You're not the first nor the last to take a pet to the vet for a case of concerned pet parent. One of our dogs has been to the emergency vet twice for nothing noteworthy to be wrong ... once it was for funny smelling urine, and the tests came back "rather unexciting," and once it was for some funny motions she'd made, which of course stopped by the time she got to the vet and had left no indication there was anything wrong (there was another dog there that same evening that was diagnosed with ... harmless gas, so nothing actually wrong with that dog either, lol).

Here's to hoping your girls will be healthy from here on out!

thankyou for your reply, omg haha! although it can be a bit of a pain paying for unneeded vet trips at least our babies are healthy&well and not actually poorly in anyway, and its something you can look back and laugh about!

thankyou so much! me too, same too your babies x
 
so when i checked the girls over this morning i noticed they’ve both got a bit of white discharge coming from their bits.. i’m assuming this is just from having their temperature taken yesterday? its no longer there after checking again so i’m not too worried i just thought id ask!
 
so when i checked the girls over this morning i noticed they’ve both got a bit of white discharge coming from their bits.. i’m assuming this is just from having their temperature taken yesterday? its no longer there after checking again so i’m not too worried i just thought id ask!
Perfectly normal, particularly if the vet put a little gel on the thermometer before taking their temps.
 
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