Glynis
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Just thought i'd let you all know from my experience with Duke yesterday to be careful of low blood pressure in piggies.
He had a toofie trim, again his back molars were meeting up and making it difficult for him to eat He also had his eye checked out and they found out he'd had an abscess at some stage on it and that it was healing but needed extra care, a cream.
OK here's the problem:
I left him at home at 10.45am and went to work, he had full trays of foods, pellets and water. I was unable to get home due to a few probs at work.
Dee didn't need to be picked up until 4pm but i just had this feeling and went home first to feed and check up on Duke. Thank god i did, when i picked him up he was floppy :o :o quite cool to touch and breathing laboured and also very very pale almost white lips (his are normally pink)
I tried to syringe feed him CC but it literally dribbled out his mouth, i for some reason went and got the metacam and gave him a dose, popped him in his box and went to collect Dee at school and on the way called the vets.
They saw him straight away :smitten: :smitten: they were wonderful. Checked his heart, breathing etc etc etc... They feel that he had been in pain and wasn't coping with it and hence his blood pressure went down, dangerously so :'( :'( :'( They also told me that i had found him in time and that what i did was the right thing, it was just an instinct thing to do.
So please everyone keep an eye out for this in your piggies cause it's very very scary to find them like this, and i just thank my instincts that i did the right thing for him. I know he will be leaving me at some stage but we're so close as i've now been syringe feeding etc. for over year and our bond is pretty tight :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: I know all of his little whimpers etc...
He had a toofie trim, again his back molars were meeting up and making it difficult for him to eat He also had his eye checked out and they found out he'd had an abscess at some stage on it and that it was healing but needed extra care, a cream.
OK here's the problem:
I left him at home at 10.45am and went to work, he had full trays of foods, pellets and water. I was unable to get home due to a few probs at work.
Dee didn't need to be picked up until 4pm but i just had this feeling and went home first to feed and check up on Duke. Thank god i did, when i picked him up he was floppy :o :o quite cool to touch and breathing laboured and also very very pale almost white lips (his are normally pink)
I tried to syringe feed him CC but it literally dribbled out his mouth, i for some reason went and got the metacam and gave him a dose, popped him in his box and went to collect Dee at school and on the way called the vets.
They saw him straight away :smitten: :smitten: they were wonderful. Checked his heart, breathing etc etc etc... They feel that he had been in pain and wasn't coping with it and hence his blood pressure went down, dangerously so :'( :'( :'( They also told me that i had found him in time and that what i did was the right thing, it was just an instinct thing to do.
So please everyone keep an eye out for this in your piggies cause it's very very scary to find them like this, and i just thank my instincts that i did the right thing for him. I know he will be leaving me at some stage but we're so close as i've now been syringe feeding etc. for over year and our bond is pretty tight :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: I know all of his little whimpers etc...