Poo vibes for Milo (in my avatar) please :wave:
He's had a real bad impaction for months now - has to have his poo scooped out carefully with an oiled q-tip every day - sometimes twice a day :roll: Lovely job if you like the smell of horse muck mixed with a bucket of sick :lol: Sometimes I nearly pass out with it But anyway - other than that he's been fighting fit - literally - mind your fingers! :shock:
But past few days, in retrospect I've not been getting as much poops out with the gunky caecal poops (which some vets deny exists :?) - Milo is unfortunate in having a poo hole deep down into his bum bag/caecal poo area, so his normal poos come out sideways, get stuck and build up into one massive ball so he can't poo AT ALL any more :?
Hope no-one's eating tea :wave:
Anyway - I guess he needed cleaning out a lot more often than once a day, as yesterday he went off his food - due to a blockage I'm guessing, of old poo - I'm guessing his bowels are getting a bit saggy inside with the fact he's constipated a lot, so nothing's moving much
Anyway - he was all floppy this morning when I cleaned his bum out - I've been awake since 4am worrying about what to do for the best - which of course is something you never know except with hindsight :roll: so I arranged with ex to take us to the vets for him to be PTS as he was obviously suffering - looked so miserable and shuddering poor lad
Son was sad - he likes Milo Milo was the one I first fell in love with way back when I rescued them all - little 4" long ball of fluff he was
Then son says awww poor Milo - look at him! And I put the phone down, having arranged his demise, and the fluff monster is attempting to groom himself! Then he goes to his bottle and has a big drink! :shock: So I grab a q-tip and some very teeny dry poops come out and his tummy does a big gurgle I laid him on my lap facing away from me and rubbed his tummy in a circular motion, and he laid his head down on my lap and drooled :lol:
Have got quite a few more misshapen poops out since - and he's EATEN every tiny dandelion leaf I could find (wrong time of year :roll plus half a slice of carrot and quite a few big stalks of timmy grass! Off to gouge some more poo out now - wish us luck! He's not dead yet - was fighting me like a tiger last time I picked him up, which was a definite improvement on this morning
He's had a real bad impaction for months now - has to have his poo scooped out carefully with an oiled q-tip every day - sometimes twice a day :roll: Lovely job if you like the smell of horse muck mixed with a bucket of sick :lol: Sometimes I nearly pass out with it But anyway - other than that he's been fighting fit - literally - mind your fingers! :shock:
But past few days, in retrospect I've not been getting as much poops out with the gunky caecal poops (which some vets deny exists :?) - Milo is unfortunate in having a poo hole deep down into his bum bag/caecal poo area, so his normal poos come out sideways, get stuck and build up into one massive ball so he can't poo AT ALL any more :?
Hope no-one's eating tea :wave:
Anyway - I guess he needed cleaning out a lot more often than once a day, as yesterday he went off his food - due to a blockage I'm guessing, of old poo - I'm guessing his bowels are getting a bit saggy inside with the fact he's constipated a lot, so nothing's moving much
Anyway - he was all floppy this morning when I cleaned his bum out - I've been awake since 4am worrying about what to do for the best - which of course is something you never know except with hindsight :roll: so I arranged with ex to take us to the vets for him to be PTS as he was obviously suffering - looked so miserable and shuddering poor lad
Son was sad - he likes Milo Milo was the one I first fell in love with way back when I rescued them all - little 4" long ball of fluff he was
Then son says awww poor Milo - look at him! And I put the phone down, having arranged his demise, and the fluff monster is attempting to groom himself! Then he goes to his bottle and has a big drink! :shock: So I grab a q-tip and some very teeny dry poops come out and his tummy does a big gurgle I laid him on my lap facing away from me and rubbed his tummy in a circular motion, and he laid his head down on my lap and drooled :lol:
Have got quite a few more misshapen poops out since - and he's EATEN every tiny dandelion leaf I could find (wrong time of year :roll plus half a slice of carrot and quite a few big stalks of timmy grass! Off to gouge some more poo out now - wish us luck! He's not dead yet - was fighting me like a tiger last time I picked him up, which was a definite improvement on this morning