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Meg has lost weight - a bit worried!

Good news! Instead of having separate breakfasts, Meg and I shared the breakfast table this morning. I was eating my breakfast at the same time as she was chomping down her dish of recovery food as fast as she possibly could. :yahoo::yahoo::yahoo: She enjoyed it so much it was all over her paws, down her chin, over her nose ..... She didn't appreciate me cleaning her up afterwards either! I do love a feisty piggy. All she needs now is the confidence to eat hay again. I'll give them all some grass in a bit after they've finished their breakfast pellets. They won't be outside on the patio today as we are going out. So Meg and Christian are in the run in the garage and Betsy and Dennis are in the hutch.
 
Betsy said:
Good news! Instead of having separate breakfasts, Meg and I shared the breakfast table this morning. I was eating my breakfast at the same time as she was chomping down her dish of recovery food as fast as she possibly could. :yahoo::yahoo::yahoo: She enjoyed it so much it was all over her paws, down her chin, over her nose ..... She didn't appreciate me cleaning her up afterwards either! I do love a feisty piggy. All she needs now is the confidence to eat hay again. I'll give them all some grass in a bit after they've finished their breakfast pellets. They won't be outside on the patio today as we are going out. So Meg and Christian are in the run in the garage and Betsy and Dennis are in the hutch.
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It can take a while before they eat hay, especially when the mouth is sore. Grass is just as good for wearing teeth though, so great she’s able to eat that! Has the head shaking stopped?
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
It can take a while before they eat hay, especially when the mouth is sore. Grass is just as good for wearing teeth though, so great she’s able to eat that! Has the head shaking stopped?
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She shook her head a couple of time this morning while eating breakfast. When she first started to shake her head, I thought that it was because she had food around her mouth but she was doing it at other times too. If it carries on I'll mention it to Simon next week.
 
Betsy said:
She shook her head a couple of time this morning while eating breakfast. When she first started to shake her head, I thought that it was because she had food around her mouth but she was doing it at other times too. If it carries on I'll mention it to Simon next week.
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Yes note down anything you are concerned about. It’s so easy to forget things, especially with not being able to go in xx
 
Betsy said:
She shook her head a couple of time this morning while eating breakfast. When she first started to shake her head, I thought that it was because she had food around her mouth but she was doing it at other times too. If it carries on I'll mention it to Simon next week.
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Have a look in her ears to make sure there no hay sticking out! Glad to hear she is chomping away. You could try and cut up hay into different sizes using a pair of scissors, see if that helps
 
Hello meg . .
Well great news you getting better and me and piggies send you lots :luv:
@Betsy Great news after a very very worring time. She's doing well . . I know You want her eating crate after crate vegs but little steps lead to big ones. Great vid of her munching her feed.
Keep it up mention to @furryfriends (TEAS) and as it's Thu this is for you. . . :clap::clap::clap:
 
At lunchtime today I gave Meg her recovery food in the bowl and she wouldn't eat any of it until I had added some banana (little Diva!) then she wolfed it down. I cut some grass and put it in a Tupperware and I was giving it to her but obviously not fast enough cos she tipped the Tupperware over and started chomping. At teatime she only had about half the recovery food and then turned to where the Tupperware with grass in was, tipped it up and scoffed the lot! I could put it in the run but then Christian has some too. I give all 4 of them grass in the morning and then they can help themselves to as much hay as they want. As Meg's tongue is still recovering its important that she gets grass on her own to wear down her teefies as I don't think she's started on the hay yet. In a couple of days I'll cut some with scissors as @Bill & Ted suggested and I'll add it in with her grass to see if she will eat some.
 
This morning Meg is up 20g on yesterday and she refused Recovery Food this morning (even with the banana!) in favour of a Tupperware half full of grass and a small amount of hay. She chomped through the grass in half and hour and left all the hay. I'm taking it as a good sign that she didn't want her Recovery Food.
 
Betsy said:
This morning Meg is up 20g on yesterday and she refused Recovery Food this morning (even with the banana!) in favour of a Tupperware half full of grass and a small amount of hay. She chomped through the grass in half and hour and left all the hay. I'm taking it as a good sign that she didn't want her Recovery Food.
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Sounds like she’s making a good recovery, grass is supposed to be as good as hay, it’s better she’s off the recovery food, just keep an eye on her weight X So please for you
 
This morning at breakfast Meg had her Tupperware with hay and grass in it as well as a small amount of apple, half a segment of satsuma and a bit of banana skin then she turned round and nicked a bit of apple from my bowl of breakfast fruit! She is a cheeky girl!

Her eye is looking a bit better after the bad hay poke she got on Tuesday morning. Because of lockdown and loads of emergencies, my vets couldn't fit her in til first thing Wednesday morning despite me phoning them up twice and trying to tell them an eye injury WAS an emergency. All I could do was put lubricating gel in it until Meg could see the vet. She was prescribed Chloramphenicol eyedrops 3 times a day for 7 days. Typically the haypoke is in the eye that she can't close anymore which is presumably why she got it in the first place. As soon as I found out from Kim that she couldn't close it, I've been putting in lubricating gel (Visco tears) to keep the eye hydrated which Meg didn't like at first and complained quite (well very actually) vocally about. She doesn't complain any more and just sits there and lets me do it because it must feel nice now. She's not so keen on the eyedrops though and I have to anchor her head quite firmly before putting them in then I have to blink her eye a few times and hold the eye shut for a while otherwise she just cleans her eye with her paw and we have to start all over again! I wish she could understand that I'm being cruel to be kind and without the eyedrops she could lose her eye.
 
Betsy said:
This morning at breakfast Meg had her Tupperware with hay and grass in it as well as a small amount of apple, half a segment of satsuma and a bit of banana skin then she turned round and nicked a bit of apple from my bowl of breakfast fruit! She is a cheeky girl!

Her eye is looking a bit better after the bad hay poke she got on Tuesday morning. Because of lockdown and loads of emergencies, my vets couldn't fit her in til first thing Wednesday morning despite me phoning them up twice and trying to tell them an eye injury WAS an emergency. All I could do was put lubricating gel in it until Meg could see the vet. She was prescribed Chloramphenicol eyedrops 3 times a day for 7 days. Typically the haypoke is in the eye that she can't close anymore which is presumably why she got it in the first place. As soon as I found out from Kim that she couldn't close it, I've been putting in lubricating gel (Visco tears) to keep the eye hydrated which Meg didn't like at first and complained quite (well very actually) vocally about. She doesn't complain any more and just sits there and lets me do it because it must feel nice now. She's not so keen on the eyedrops though and I have to anchor her head quite firmly before putting them in then I have to blink her eye a few times and hold the eye shut for a while otherwise she just cleans her eye with her paw and we have to start all over again! I wish she could understand that I'm being cruel to be kind and without the eyedrops she could lose her eye.
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Ah, I understand the neurological issue now. It sounds like she must have some facial nerve paralysis. We’ve had a few piggies, with that issue xx
 
Oh Meg! Not surprised you don't like the chloramphenicol eye drops, they taste disgusting. I've had them and they really are yucky. Tell mummy you need a nice treat a few seconds after treatment to take away the taste.xx
 
rhymer said:
Oh Meg! Not surprised you don't like the chloramphenicol eye drops, they taste disgusting. I've had them and they really are yucky. Tell mummy you need a nice treat a few seconds after treatment to take away the taste.xx
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Er @rhymer Chloramphenicol eye drops go in the eye not the mouth! :lol!: Meg gets a nice treat afterwards for being such a good girl and letting me put the eye drops in.
 
Betsy said:
Her eye is looking a bit better after the bad hay poke she got on Tuesday morning.
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I spoke too soon! Meg's eye is now looking worse despite it being day 5 of 7 of treatment. There is still a film over the eye and the eye looks red underneath. I have contacted the vet by email this morning with a picture of the eye today. I have said that I want to speak to a vet about it today. My vets are open at the weekend and don't charge emergency fees.
 
Betsy said:
Er @rhymer Chloramphenicol eye drops go in the eye not the mouth! :lol!: Meg gets a nice treat afterwards for being such a good girl and letting me put the eye drops in.
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Oh Meg, I know they go in your eye, but for some strange reason they do leave a strange taste in your mouth about 30 seconds after you put them. I don't know why. Didn't mean to suggest mummy was giving them to you wrong.Lol.
Really do hope your little eye is feeling better soon.xx
 
Meg has just come back from seeing the lovely Alfonso. He said that her eye was healing well it's just that the ulcer is very big so will take a while to heal. I'm to carry on with the eye drops and lubricating gel until the ulcer has healed completely. He said he wanted to see her again next week until I explained that she was seeing Simon on Friday when Alfonso said that Simon could check the eye.
 
Betsy said:
Meg has just come back from seeing the lovely Alfonso. He said that her eye was healing well it's just that the ulcer is very big so will take a while to heal. I'm to carry on with the eye drops and lubricating gel until the ulcer has healed completely. He said he wanted to see her again next week until I explained that she was seeing Simon on Friday when Alfonso said that Simon could check the eye.
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Poor Meg, glad her eye is healing. Hope it feels better for her soon x
 
Micah says he’s very sorry that Meg has such a nasty haypoke.
He had one too that took forever to mend but he enjoyed all the treats when he had to get his eye drops.
He also says a very good game is to pretend to be good and then just as the dop’s about to go in close your eye tightly
 
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