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midlandsfairy
Hi,
As some of you know, Rocky was booked into the vet yesteday for the neutering. He came around okay, and they let me take him at 4pm after he'd been nibbling on his food. but boy has it been a stressful night! :'(
it seems to be a similar issue to that which chloe posted about... but i don't know if its a common side effect, she also mentioned an operation but I don't know if her girl had a general anasthetic. Last night rocky wasn't doing any poos but his whole back end was wet, with an amonia smell, so i'm guessing it was wee. I put down a little pad of kitchen roll for him to lie on (he's on towels) and checked the wound which wasn't bleeding or weeping and seemed fine. But he seems to be totally incontinent?! I stayed up with him til late last night (well early this morning!) and he nibbled on 3 peices of little gem, 2 slices of cucumber and one piece of carrott. Can you tell that i was anxious if i was keeping count? :-\ his normal curly kale wouldn't tempt him, nor would spinach leaves. My partner checked at 4am and he said that he was just chewing on his cardboard tube and munching hay.
This morning I got him up out of his pigloo and he seems relativly bright. He's done some poops, which are soft and some are quite irregular in shape (i.e. some are small and roundish, others are longer but very thin) but the pad that I left him with at 1.30am this morning, was so wet this morning at 7am that i could have wrung it out and got liquid out :'( his back end isn't soaking as it was last night but is still damp to wet. again the wound and stiches etc are still looking okay.
Basically, I'm just not sure if i'm panicking over nothing! Does this sound like normal after effects of an anasthetic? He was given painkillers and antibiotics when he left the vet yesterday and he's due back on thurs for his check up. he's quite quiet- as I expected- and is wanting to stay tucked away although sat on my lap for about an hour last night when i picked him up.
Please help!
Lucy
As some of you know, Rocky was booked into the vet yesteday for the neutering. He came around okay, and they let me take him at 4pm after he'd been nibbling on his food. but boy has it been a stressful night! :'(
it seems to be a similar issue to that which chloe posted about... but i don't know if its a common side effect, she also mentioned an operation but I don't know if her girl had a general anasthetic. Last night rocky wasn't doing any poos but his whole back end was wet, with an amonia smell, so i'm guessing it was wee. I put down a little pad of kitchen roll for him to lie on (he's on towels) and checked the wound which wasn't bleeding or weeping and seemed fine. But he seems to be totally incontinent?! I stayed up with him til late last night (well early this morning!) and he nibbled on 3 peices of little gem, 2 slices of cucumber and one piece of carrott. Can you tell that i was anxious if i was keeping count? :-\ his normal curly kale wouldn't tempt him, nor would spinach leaves. My partner checked at 4am and he said that he was just chewing on his cardboard tube and munching hay.
This morning I got him up out of his pigloo and he seems relativly bright. He's done some poops, which are soft and some are quite irregular in shape (i.e. some are small and roundish, others are longer but very thin) but the pad that I left him with at 1.30am this morning, was so wet this morning at 7am that i could have wrung it out and got liquid out :'( his back end isn't soaking as it was last night but is still damp to wet. again the wound and stiches etc are still looking okay.
Basically, I'm just not sure if i'm panicking over nothing! Does this sound like normal after effects of an anasthetic? He was given painkillers and antibiotics when he left the vet yesterday and he's due back on thurs for his check up. he's quite quiet- as I expected- and is wanting to stay tucked away although sat on my lap for about an hour last night when i picked him up.
Please help!
Lucy
