So Patrick has managed to get a piece of hay in his eye overnight. I’ve managed to get it out and his eye looks sore and blueish. He’s in at the vets at 2 this afternoon so hopefully everything will be ok. 
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My first hay poke
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So Patrick has managed to get a piece of hay in his eye overnight. I’ve managed to get it out and his eye looks sore and blueish. He’s in at the vets at 2 this afternoon so hopefully everything will be ok.
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Wishing you all the best. Good that you can have him seen promptly.
Oh dear Patrick!
I hope he is ok
I hope he is ok
fluffysal
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Poor boy, if he's lucky the vet will give him metacam 
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Good luck at the vets Patrick.
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Get well soon Patrick , we're all rooting for you.
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"My first hay poke" - sounds like a new toy for toddler piggies 
Good luck at the vets Patrick!
Good luck at the vets Patrick!
Betsy
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Dear Patrick
I hear you have hay poke. It can be painful. I have looked at leaflet "How to avoid getting haypoke" and Page 1, paragraph 3a says to avoid hay poke you should:-
Your friend in crisis
Miss Bramble
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I hear you have hay poke. It can be painful. I have looked at leaflet "How to avoid getting haypoke" and Page 1, paragraph 3a says to avoid hay poke you should:-
- Shut your eyes before you go hay diving
- Eat your way into your hay tunnel then eat your way back out again
- Run around on top of the hay making it go everywhere apart from in your face
- Fall asleep on top of a nice hay pile so that when you wake up and feel a bit peckish you don't have to move to find food and therefore avoiding any potential hay pokes
- Remember to put on your goggles before you go hay diving
Your friend in crisis
Miss Bramble
Shop Steward
Dear Miss Bramble,
Thank you so much for your fabulous advice. Spot on as always.
I woke up this morning and my eye was very sore. So I sat quietly in my house until the slave got up. I then gave her sad eyes and she noticed my predicament. Hay in my eye. It was so sore. I sat winking at her. She gave me veggies and then poked about in my eye until she got it out. It was such a relief.
Then this afternoon she took both me and Pebble on a jolly to the vets. We’ve been there recently as I have lice too!
A lovely vet called Ed soon sorted me out with remend tears drops and eye antibiotics chloramphenicol and loxicom. I have a very large ulcer. I was a very good boy as I always am
He wants to see me again next week for a check up but I think he just wants to see me again as I’m fabulous. Someone in the waiting thought I was a chinchilla!
Anyway I’ve have my eye drops and the loxicom
. Which was very nice.
Thanks for all your warm wishes Patrick
Thank you so much for your fabulous advice. Spot on as always.
I woke up this morning and my eye was very sore. So I sat quietly in my house until the slave got up. I then gave her sad eyes and she noticed my predicament. Hay in my eye. It was so sore. I sat winking at her. She gave me veggies and then poked about in my eye until she got it out. It was such a relief.
Then this afternoon she took both me and Pebble on a jolly to the vets. We’ve been there recently as I have lice too!
A lovely vet called Ed soon sorted me out with remend tears drops and eye antibiotics chloramphenicol and loxicom. I have a very large ulcer. I was a very good boy as I always am
He wants to see me again next week for a check up but I think he just wants to see me again as I’m fabulous. Someone in the waiting thought I was a chinchilla!
Anyway I’ve have my eye drops and the loxicom
. Which was very nice.Thanks for all your warm wishes Patrick
piggieminder
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Poor Patrick. I hope his eye gets better quickly.
Viennese Furbabies
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Poor Patrick! I hope he will feel better soon.
fluffysal
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Dear Patrick,
Of course he wants to see you because you are fabulous. Even more so with your alliterative gentlepig underbits!
Enjoy your yummy syringe stuff and be good for your eye drops. If you have any left can you send it to me please. Master Boris isn't sharing his.
Rumbles,
Dignified Sir George.
Of course he wants to see you because you are fabulous. Even more so with your alliterative gentlepig underbits!
Enjoy your yummy syringe stuff and be good for your eye drops. If you have any left can you send it to me please. Master Boris isn't sharing his.
Rumbles,
Dignified Sir George.
I’ll see what I can do.
CTWC
Adult Guinea Pig
Poor Patrick hope he soon recovers 