Pigging Out

Hi, Bryce has always took longer than our other past piggies recovering from the anaesthetic/gas. We have separated him from Whitney for the time being coz he gets annoyed with her and chases her away. He hasn't had full control of his bladder and guts for 24 hrs. He can't poo so we gave him emeprid to get his guts moving. He is back to pooping again today and his poops are normal again. Although his pee is still just dripping out from him and he hasn't had control of it yet. We are syringe feeding him every couple of hours. He hasn't had full appetite yet, but he does eat grass and hay on his own every now and then. We are hoping by tomorrow he can get some normality back. And also so we can start flushing his wound, we didn't want to get him more annoyed with it for the time being. Hubby and I had not much sleep in the past 2 days. Only having naps whenever we can. 😴😴
 
CTWC said:
Morning how did things go over night? 💙
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I had no sleep again. 😴 I'm only getting 3hrs of sleep for the past 3 nights and some short naps during the day. I do the night feeds and hubby does the day feed but I can't sleep during the day coz there are other stuff to do. 😑😴

He is getting so difficult to syringe feed him coz he is fighting it now. But he hasn't been eating so he has to be syringed fed. I think it's because of the Zithromax, making him lose his appetite again. It happened in the past with him, and we had to change the antibiotics. We went this morning to our local vets to get it changed to Baytril, asking Ellie Whitehead from Matlock first though. The local vet checked his wound as well and told us that looks like we cleaned it good this morning. We were wondering if abscess is forming again but vet said it's clean. We have to give him a bum wash later because he stinks of pee. He has no control of his bladder yet, pee is just dripping out. 😔😑
 
We let Whitney back to the cage tonight, and it almost became chaos. Both started chattering so much. Bryce tried to chase her and a bit of hair from Bryce was pulled. Whitney then started to chase him but I put a fleece pee pad in between them and Whitney grabbed it and attacked it like the way a dog plays with its fluffy toy! Flipping piggies! We had to remove Whitney when we came back from after the op on Tuesday because she was annoying Bryce whenever she tried to smell his neck. And she's been separated ever since (3 nights, 2 days). Now we have to reintroduce them again. 🤦‍♀️🙄 I think it's because Bryce has all these different smell at the moment making Whitney think he's someone different? Or that she's trying her chance to be the dominant one? 🤷‍♀️😑😔
 
This is Bryce this morning when hubby was feeding him. He is still not eating by himself. He stopped eating fruits/veggies and only nibbles some hay so everything is syringe feeding. But he would eat grass. He seems to be having some control with his bladder coz he isn't dripping pee much.

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I hope he starts getting better soon. 😔😔
 
Thank you all. Whitney and Bryce met earlier and when they were on the sofa, they were okay. I think that's because Whitney was scared whenever she's on the sofa. When we tried them in their main cage Whitney started lunging on him. So we had to separate them again. We put Bryce in their play area by the chair and Whitney out on the the living room floor. They were separated by C&C bars that I put around the chair area. It was the most active Bryce has been ever since after his op. Both him and Whitney trying to show dominance between the bars. Then Whitney lunge on Bryce again but she hit the bar and she went under the table to calm down.

These piggies! 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️😑 I think we will have to do bonding again when Bryce is better already. Whitney saw the opportunity to take a chance at being the boss. It only started when we got back home after the op, hence we had to remove her from Bryce. It's a good thing they each have two big areas to stay in while they are doing this.
 
My last couple were Nicky and Chelsea. Nicky was completely besotted with Chelsea. It wasn't quite the same the other way round but they were a great couple.
When Nicky had a difficult operation and had to be kept seperate from Chelsea for ten days until the suctures were removed, it was a hard time for Nicky because he hardly wanted to eat anything without Chelsea.
When we put them together again, there was quite a turmoil at first. But luckily it calmed down after a short time. But there was also a lot of teeth chattering, chasing and hair pulling.

I hope Bryce abd Whitney can be reunited when Bryce is feeling better.
 
anyar.dris said:
Thank you all. Whitney and Bryce met earlier and when they were on the sofa, they were okay. I think that's because Whitney was scared whenever she's on the sofa. When we tried them in their main cage Whitney started lunging on him. So we had to separate them again. We put Bryce in their play area by the chair and Whitney out on the the living room floor. They were separated by C&C bars that I put around the chair area. It was the most active Bryce has been ever since after his op. Both him and Whitney trying to show dominance between the bars. Then Whitney lunge on Bryce again but she hit the bar and she went under the table to calm down.

These piggies! 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️😑 I think we will have to do bonding again when Bryce is better already. Whitney saw the opportunity to take a chance at being the boss. It only started when we got back home after the op, hence we had to remove her from Bryce. It's a good thing they each have two big areas to stay in while they are doing this.
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Any illness can give an underpig the opportunity to make a move upward in the hierarchy and they do try it on sometimes
 
Just an update..I only managed to get some proper sleep so had time to post.

Sunday night, Bryce stopped pooping after 7pm. He was having some discomfort whenever we touched his tummy too. He was also having issues eating. He stopped eating everything and we can hear grinding his teeth so much. I was awake the whole night and hubby decided for us to just drive to Matlock for an emergency to see Ellie, since we are awake anyway and we'll be there when they open at 8am.

So when we arrive at the vets, good thing Ellie was in that morning. She saw Bryce and she said he was a bit gassy and yeah his poop was quite harder than it should be. We also asked her to remove the stitches coz it's really bothering him so much and to check his teeth. So Ellie has done all that. She said there was a tiny spur in his right back teeth and it has caused a little wound in his tongue which made him hurt while eating. His wound was cleaned too and stitches were removed, and there's no abscess in it thankfully. He was prescribed Gabapentin, more Emeprid and Cisapride in addition to his Loxicom.

Now he is starting to eat little bits along with syringe feeds. This morning we saw him eat little bits of hay so at least that's a start. I didn't go to Liverpool with hubby to visit my in-laws again so I can watch Bryce. Apart from wanting to get some sleep, I really don't want the hassle of doing all the carrier, food, feeding in the car, etc. when I can do it all in the house anyway. Plus I want Bryce to not be stressed with being drive around after just 2 days and want him to start eating in his cage again.

Here he is just started eating some food from the bowl.

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I am sorry you are having such a difficult time at the moment. Fingers crossed Bryce is now on the mend and you will soon be able to get a good nights sleep.
 
Bryce is mostly still not eating by himself apart from when it's grass and some pea flakes and hay. Both him and Whitney are just lazing around in their own enclosures even though they have options to run around the whole living room on their own. They are still having a kerfuffle and still need to be fully bonded until after Bryce have fully recovered. Anyway, just to make sure they get used to each other again, we rearranged their chair area this morning so Bryce can be with Whitney during the day. If Bryce prefer to go back to their main cage, then we have to open Whitney's area and she can roam around in the living room to the main cage.

This is what it looks at the moment (please excuse the mess 😩). Bryce got knackered since he wasn't moving around much lately. 😂

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