Hi All,
I'm new here - great to meet you all! I'm H and I have little Freddy, hopefully will be able to have a friend for Freddy soon!
I recently adopted Freddy from a rescue. He was originally bonded with another little guy, but they fell out when we bought them home so we kept Freddy and gave the other little guy back. Freddy then had many unsuccessful bonding attempts so upon the advice of the rescue we got him neutered last Friday so he can find a lady friend.
Long story short, he now has an abscess very low down on his 'private parts' right next to where they made one of the incisions in the op (for reference, they neutered via the scrotal method).
He is currently on 0.44ml Loxicom once a day, Then twice a day Baytril 0.44ml, Emeprid 0.7ml and Gabapentin 1/2 small tablet which I give him at home. We have also have been giving some recovery plus by syringe. He is currently going to the vet once a day for the abscess to be flushed and he gets an injection of Buprenorphine for this. They have sent a swab of the abscess to a lab to test it to see what antibiotic will be suitable - we will find out the results from the lab in a couple of days.
I am monitoring his eating and weight - weight is down 50g in the last 2 days.
He is eating, but not a lot and it has to be near him, he won't move around his cage to where the food is.
He isn't drinking at all on his own accord - just the water he gets with the recovery plus and the Gabapentin.
He is barely moving around his cage, and will only move if I kinda force him to (i.e. he is running away because he doesn't wanna come out for his meds!).
Since last night he has started doing a little squeak every so often when pooping (kinda like it is hurting him?).
He is being seen by the vet again today, so will of course bring up the lethargy/poop squeaks but I guess I just wanted to know if anyone else had this experience of your GP being super lethargic and not moving much during a post neutering abscess? He is on so much medication, so I would assume that would knock him out a little? but I don't have much experience with GPs so am not too sure and to be honest I am really worried about my little man. Any advice on anything would be so helpful - I am not too sure what to look out for/what to ask at the vets.
Thanks so much lots of love H and Freddy x
I'm new here - great to meet you all! I'm H and I have little Freddy, hopefully will be able to have a friend for Freddy soon!
I recently adopted Freddy from a rescue. He was originally bonded with another little guy, but they fell out when we bought them home so we kept Freddy and gave the other little guy back. Freddy then had many unsuccessful bonding attempts so upon the advice of the rescue we got him neutered last Friday so he can find a lady friend.
Long story short, he now has an abscess very low down on his 'private parts' right next to where they made one of the incisions in the op (for reference, they neutered via the scrotal method).
He is currently on 0.44ml Loxicom once a day, Then twice a day Baytril 0.44ml, Emeprid 0.7ml and Gabapentin 1/2 small tablet which I give him at home. We have also have been giving some recovery plus by syringe. He is currently going to the vet once a day for the abscess to be flushed and he gets an injection of Buprenorphine for this. They have sent a swab of the abscess to a lab to test it to see what antibiotic will be suitable - we will find out the results from the lab in a couple of days.
I am monitoring his eating and weight - weight is down 50g in the last 2 days.
He is eating, but not a lot and it has to be near him, he won't move around his cage to where the food is.
He isn't drinking at all on his own accord - just the water he gets with the recovery plus and the Gabapentin.
He is barely moving around his cage, and will only move if I kinda force him to (i.e. he is running away because he doesn't wanna come out for his meds!).
Since last night he has started doing a little squeak every so often when pooping (kinda like it is hurting him?).
He is being seen by the vet again today, so will of course bring up the lethargy/poop squeaks but I guess I just wanted to know if anyone else had this experience of your GP being super lethargic and not moving much during a post neutering abscess? He is on so much medication, so I would assume that would knock him out a little? but I don't have much experience with GPs so am not too sure and to be honest I am really worried about my little man. Any advice on anything would be so helpful - I am not too sure what to look out for/what to ask at the vets.
Thanks so much lots of love H and Freddy x
I hate seeing him like this, he is usually such a happy little fella
