Plien
New Born Pup
Hey there,
Last week my piggy Lily got very sick and ended up needing to stay in the hospital for two nights, she’s been home since tuesday afternoon and seems to be improving bit by bit. I’m still very worried and a bit unsure about some things, so I was hoping to see if anyone might have advice/insights to share.
Lily is 2 years and 3 months old, we adopted her from the rescue when she was about 10-12 weeks. She lives with Fiep (sow of 4,5 years) and Noah (neutered boar of 3,5 years). Last week friday I noticed she was being picky with veggies and her behaviour seemed a bit off, when weighing her we saw that she had gone from 980gr two weeks before to 860gr so we called the vet for an appointment asap which was saturday morning. And I started hand feeding pellet-mush.
The vet checked her eyes, nose, teeth, breathing, heart rate and temperature but could not find anything. At the vet her weight had dropped to 820gr and she wasn’t able to fully see Lily’s molars due to having lots of food in her mouth. The vet prescribed painkillers (metacam) and bowel meds (ciseral) and gave us selective recovery plus, she also planned in an appointment for monday early morning to check her teeth better and they’d prep for taking her in in case that would be needed for diagnostics/treatment.
Lily seemed to improve saturday, was eating a bit more and a bit more active. Unfortunately sunday she seemed very lethargic, late in the afternoon I noticed her breathing was suddenly really bad. She was wheezing very loudly to the point it sounded like hyperventilating, we called the emergency number and were told to bring her to the hospital. When we arrived she was brought to an oxygen cage while we’d wait ‘till the vet had time. The vet explained that it looked like she had a URI that had spread to her lungs, she now also had a fever and a lot of eye and nose discharge. Lily would stay overnight so she could get antibiotics and stay in the oxygen cage. The next morning we got an update that she had been relatively stable, the fever was a lot lower and her breathing had improved a bit but she was still in a critical phase and they were unsure if she’d reached the peak of the infection yet. So we decided to let her stay another night.
Tuesday morning we got the update that she was doing a bit better, they’d seen her nibble on a bit of hay and she was more receptive of recovery food. The fever had also fully gone down now. We were allowed to pick her up in the afternoon, she’d been prescribed additional medication (emperid for bowels and doxybactin as antibiotics). We were told to keep her separate from the other piggies and to see our own vet in a week to see how to proceed with meds and such. At home Lily almost immediately started eating, very little bits and very slow but she pretty much constantly nommed with some napping in between.
She has been improving bit by bit, her weight is slowly going up again. (wednesday 785, thursday 825, friday 837, saturday 868) She has been jncredibly difficult with taking meds and food, I’m not sure why other than that she’s always had a stubborn streak. Today it did seem to go a bit easier though. She’s been eating hay, pellets, dried herbs, veggies and every day she eats a bit more. She’s not been drinking a lot of water so I’ve been giving her cucumber to make sure she gets some fluids and she really likes them as well. Her breathing is a lot better, sometimes I hear a little snottyness but it passes quickly. She does still have discharge coming out of one eye and it was still a bit inflamed (conjunctivitis due to the infection is what the vet said) but the inflammation seems to be improving.
Currenty she is still separated from the others, we took Noah and Fiep to our vet on wednesday and they seem to be doing good other than having some bald spots for which we gave them ivectirmin and are keeping an eye on that. Lily seems quite lonely (and maybe a bit bored) she perks up listening very intently whenever she hears the others, I really dislike having her seperate but I am terrified of either Noah and Fiep getting infected or them re-infecting Lily. Logically I think that they’ve already been exposed so that it’d probably be fine, but both the hospital vet and our own vet strongly advised us to keep them apart. Personally the biggest thing I’m worried about is Lily‘s eye discharge, it‘s still coming out and it has a bit of a smell to it which makes me worried that it indeed might still be infectious. I’d love to hear what other think.
I’m sorry this got so long, I’ve been trying to write something the last few days but it always ends up becoming really long and mildly incoherent. Thank you so much for taking the time to read. I think I had more questions but I can’t think of them right now, I will also post an overview of the meds and doses she’s now taking later. Thank you.
Plien
Last week my piggy Lily got very sick and ended up needing to stay in the hospital for two nights, she’s been home since tuesday afternoon and seems to be improving bit by bit. I’m still very worried and a bit unsure about some things, so I was hoping to see if anyone might have advice/insights to share.
Lily is 2 years and 3 months old, we adopted her from the rescue when she was about 10-12 weeks. She lives with Fiep (sow of 4,5 years) and Noah (neutered boar of 3,5 years). Last week friday I noticed she was being picky with veggies and her behaviour seemed a bit off, when weighing her we saw that she had gone from 980gr two weeks before to 860gr so we called the vet for an appointment asap which was saturday morning. And I started hand feeding pellet-mush.
The vet checked her eyes, nose, teeth, breathing, heart rate and temperature but could not find anything. At the vet her weight had dropped to 820gr and she wasn’t able to fully see Lily’s molars due to having lots of food in her mouth. The vet prescribed painkillers (metacam) and bowel meds (ciseral) and gave us selective recovery plus, she also planned in an appointment for monday early morning to check her teeth better and they’d prep for taking her in in case that would be needed for diagnostics/treatment.
Lily seemed to improve saturday, was eating a bit more and a bit more active. Unfortunately sunday she seemed very lethargic, late in the afternoon I noticed her breathing was suddenly really bad. She was wheezing very loudly to the point it sounded like hyperventilating, we called the emergency number and were told to bring her to the hospital. When we arrived she was brought to an oxygen cage while we’d wait ‘till the vet had time. The vet explained that it looked like she had a URI that had spread to her lungs, she now also had a fever and a lot of eye and nose discharge. Lily would stay overnight so she could get antibiotics and stay in the oxygen cage. The next morning we got an update that she had been relatively stable, the fever was a lot lower and her breathing had improved a bit but she was still in a critical phase and they were unsure if she’d reached the peak of the infection yet. So we decided to let her stay another night.
Tuesday morning we got the update that she was doing a bit better, they’d seen her nibble on a bit of hay and she was more receptive of recovery food. The fever had also fully gone down now. We were allowed to pick her up in the afternoon, she’d been prescribed additional medication (emperid for bowels and doxybactin as antibiotics). We were told to keep her separate from the other piggies and to see our own vet in a week to see how to proceed with meds and such. At home Lily almost immediately started eating, very little bits and very slow but she pretty much constantly nommed with some napping in between.
She has been improving bit by bit, her weight is slowly going up again. (wednesday 785, thursday 825, friday 837, saturday 868) She has been jncredibly difficult with taking meds and food, I’m not sure why other than that she’s always had a stubborn streak. Today it did seem to go a bit easier though. She’s been eating hay, pellets, dried herbs, veggies and every day she eats a bit more. She’s not been drinking a lot of water so I’ve been giving her cucumber to make sure she gets some fluids and she really likes them as well. Her breathing is a lot better, sometimes I hear a little snottyness but it passes quickly. She does still have discharge coming out of one eye and it was still a bit inflamed (conjunctivitis due to the infection is what the vet said) but the inflammation seems to be improving.
Currenty she is still separated from the others, we took Noah and Fiep to our vet on wednesday and they seem to be doing good other than having some bald spots for which we gave them ivectirmin and are keeping an eye on that. Lily seems quite lonely (and maybe a bit bored) she perks up listening very intently whenever she hears the others, I really dislike having her seperate but I am terrified of either Noah and Fiep getting infected or them re-infecting Lily. Logically I think that they’ve already been exposed so that it’d probably be fine, but both the hospital vet and our own vet strongly advised us to keep them apart. Personally the biggest thing I’m worried about is Lily‘s eye discharge, it‘s still coming out and it has a bit of a smell to it which makes me worried that it indeed might still be infectious. I’d love to hear what other think.
I’m sorry this got so long, I’ve been trying to write something the last few days but it always ends up becoming really long and mildly incoherent. Thank you so much for taking the time to read. I think I had more questions but I can’t think of them right now, I will also post an overview of the meds and doses she’s now taking later. Thank you.
Plien
She’s been getting a bit stronger and more herself every day and she is cooperating very well now with the meds! She’s still not a fan of recovery food but she’s taking it, I’m really proud of her. Her weight I had indeed been doing every morning before meds, she’d gone up but now she seems to have stabilised. I’ve been giving her more hand feeding. She is eating more pellets herself though, getting close to the amount she’d normally eat. But with hay I can’t really measure it as precise and that is offc the biggest food group. 
