donnab1981
Young Bun
Simbas a constant worry, how do u guys cope with long term nursing or multiple poorly buns, my heart goes out to you all...
SORRY ive typed loads!!!!!!! :shock:
So the past few days...
Friday and over the weekend Simba started pooing and peeing everywhere. He's been toilet trained for both since a few weeks after got him. SOOOO stupid me I put it down to HOrMOnes! :roll: Sunday he wernt so eager for his nugetts but ate some and came back to eat them later...
Sunday eve he didnt touch his kale. Mon am didnt touch nuggets or kale and i noticed poos were 1/2 normal size... so off to the vets = gut inj + meds. Vet said better to take him home and try to treat if poss as nicer for him but if gets worse hell have to stay at the vets . As soon as he had the inj, he was very thirsty, drunk loads from his water bottle which he never does.
Once home and settled, I ran out to get a selection of his faves... once home I prepared a 1/4 leaf spring greens, cm slice cuecumber, cm carrot, floret of broc, 4 basil, 2 sprigs thyme. He ate the lot! Still walked away from nuggets.
Wernt his normal self and little dosey but lively enough a couple of living room laps and followed me around a bit. Saw him eat a little hay + lots of poos
Before bed I cleared the wees/poos from tray, fresh hay etc. Got up at stupid oclock (before my daughter lol... )he didnt seem keen to get out his tunnel and greet me but accepted the 2 basil and ate '2' strands of the hay i placed next to his tunnel. During my bed hours = NO POO'S/ hay not moved/scattered I placed the same veg as eve which he ate... his first oral metoclopramide and within 1/2 hour was up and out his cage acting 'normal'.
Went back to vet to pick up the fibreplex, spoke to the vet etc.. went to get carrots with tops...(sainburys/asda) finally found in tesco!!!. Back home nuggets not eaten... but LOTS OF POOS about 50... still not the right size but slightly improved, and happy to eat a small peice of carrot + 2 corrot geens/tops, was given fibreplex which im going the get down his mouth some how and supreme recovery... which i can't get him to eat, tried on a plate to lick, a spoon which he nudge away and a syringe...
I feel ive caught it all early enough that i shouldnt stress him out by force feding him whilst hes eating somewhat. I have seen him eating hay properly (not just a strand or two) this noon and also did some HUGE binkies, races, laps, and circle of my feet. I thought by now I would have had to pack him off to the vets but... I thinks hes doing good now to continue at home... just hope im doing the all the right things.
Q's
Am tempted to give him loads of veg just because im happy to see him eating now but feel its best to keep moderation?
Havent managed to give him to have any recovery food, but has been pooing and eating so does it matter? Really diffucult to give the fibreplex too, thankfully hes happy to take the metoclopramide
What may have triggered it?
Hes had baytril past 3 weeks... Couldnt find any spring greens last week so had - king something cabbage then green (actually white!) cabbage then kale... Im quierying kale either way these wont be fed again.
Possibly still hormoneally linked (Hes 6.5 months now and huge plums ). Pasturella linked?
Hmn the last 2 weeks hes had excel timothy hay forage mix, but i dont like him having this often even though timothy hay is as he never seems as eager to eat as much as much as the excel grass.
Triggers aside how to avoid it happening again... hes normally a big hay eater , good drinker etc... never had poo probs except they got a bit dark and wet looking prior to size and behaviour change.
PREVIOUSLY, and advice re pasturella...
Got him in Sept, within a week he an eye infection that didnt clear for over a month, also noticed sneezing and fast breathing... abx cleared sorted it quickly.
Early Jan - Sneezing and fast/panting type breathing again. Still same symptoms at the end of the course + after exercise/excited/showing off i could HEAR his out of breath type breathing (like the sound you get trying to breath quickly though only you mouth - i demonstrated to vet lol). Took him back to the vets; longer course seems to have calmed back down again, his breathing seems good again. I cant SEE him breathing from a distance and after exercise i cant HEAR him breathing!!!.
Vet belives its a dust allergy actually triggering it to flare up... which makes sense as sneezing has typically been in the hay esp near end of bag, and when scavering along the floor for anything dropped!.
His home is a puppy pen, extra shelf that he sleeps in a tunnel, (new lino base) due to the peein. In out lounge, ventilated warm, laminated floor.
Eats excel nuggets and dried grass, sometimes excel timothy forage mix.
SORRY ive typed loads!!!!!!! :shock:
So the past few days...
Friday and over the weekend Simba started pooing and peeing everywhere. He's been toilet trained for both since a few weeks after got him. SOOOO stupid me I put it down to HOrMOnes! :roll: Sunday he wernt so eager for his nugetts but ate some and came back to eat them later...
Sunday eve he didnt touch his kale. Mon am didnt touch nuggets or kale and i noticed poos were 1/2 normal size... so off to the vets = gut inj + meds. Vet said better to take him home and try to treat if poss as nicer for him but if gets worse hell have to stay at the vets . As soon as he had the inj, he was very thirsty, drunk loads from his water bottle which he never does.
Once home and settled, I ran out to get a selection of his faves... once home I prepared a 1/4 leaf spring greens, cm slice cuecumber, cm carrot, floret of broc, 4 basil, 2 sprigs thyme. He ate the lot! Still walked away from nuggets.
Wernt his normal self and little dosey but lively enough a couple of living room laps and followed me around a bit. Saw him eat a little hay + lots of poos
Before bed I cleared the wees/poos from tray, fresh hay etc. Got up at stupid oclock (before my daughter lol... )he didnt seem keen to get out his tunnel and greet me but accepted the 2 basil and ate '2' strands of the hay i placed next to his tunnel. During my bed hours = NO POO'S/ hay not moved/scattered I placed the same veg as eve which he ate... his first oral metoclopramide and within 1/2 hour was up and out his cage acting 'normal'.
Went back to vet to pick up the fibreplex, spoke to the vet etc.. went to get carrots with tops...(sainburys/asda) finally found in tesco!!!. Back home nuggets not eaten... but LOTS OF POOS about 50... still not the right size but slightly improved, and happy to eat a small peice of carrot + 2 corrot geens/tops, was given fibreplex which im going the get down his mouth some how and supreme recovery... which i can't get him to eat, tried on a plate to lick, a spoon which he nudge away and a syringe...
I feel ive caught it all early enough that i shouldnt stress him out by force feding him whilst hes eating somewhat. I have seen him eating hay properly (not just a strand or two) this noon and also did some HUGE binkies, races, laps, and circle of my feet. I thought by now I would have had to pack him off to the vets but... I thinks hes doing good now to continue at home... just hope im doing the all the right things.
Q's
Am tempted to give him loads of veg just because im happy to see him eating now but feel its best to keep moderation?
Havent managed to give him to have any recovery food, but has been pooing and eating so does it matter? Really diffucult to give the fibreplex too, thankfully hes happy to take the metoclopramide
What may have triggered it?
Hes had baytril past 3 weeks... Couldnt find any spring greens last week so had - king something cabbage then green (actually white!) cabbage then kale... Im quierying kale either way these wont be fed again.
Possibly still hormoneally linked (Hes 6.5 months now and huge plums ). Pasturella linked?
Hmn the last 2 weeks hes had excel timothy hay forage mix, but i dont like him having this often even though timothy hay is as he never seems as eager to eat as much as much as the excel grass.
Triggers aside how to avoid it happening again... hes normally a big hay eater , good drinker etc... never had poo probs except they got a bit dark and wet looking prior to size and behaviour change.
PREVIOUSLY, and advice re pasturella...
Got him in Sept, within a week he an eye infection that didnt clear for over a month, also noticed sneezing and fast breathing... abx cleared sorted it quickly.
Early Jan - Sneezing and fast/panting type breathing again. Still same symptoms at the end of the course + after exercise/excited/showing off i could HEAR his out of breath type breathing (like the sound you get trying to breath quickly though only you mouth - i demonstrated to vet lol). Took him back to the vets; longer course seems to have calmed back down again, his breathing seems good again. I cant SEE him breathing from a distance and after exercise i cant HEAR him breathing!!!.
Vet belives its a dust allergy actually triggering it to flare up... which makes sense as sneezing has typically been in the hay esp near end of bag, and when scavering along the floor for anything dropped!.
His home is a puppy pen, extra shelf that he sleeps in a tunnel, (new lino base) due to the peein. In out lounge, ventilated warm, laminated floor.
Eats excel nuggets and dried grass, sometimes excel timothy forage mix.
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