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Not Eating and Covered in Wee

Cari

Cari

Warren Veteran
As title.

What's wrong with my baby? He was fine at 2am and now he's like this. He's shy, didn't run to greet me, hasn't eaten pellets or carrot or apple. Have pinned him down and fed him baby food and pineapple juice.

Have put pineapple juice in his water and OH is going to offer him food and syringe feed him every 2 hours until I get home from work. What's wrong with him? If he's not eaten by 10am I'm ringing for a vet appointment.
 
please dont syringe feed anything but water unless you are certain he does not have an obstruction

sudden onset of abdominal pain (if that is what is going on) is indicative of an 'acute abdomen' ie an full obstruction.

pineapple juice could make matters a lot worse- too much sugar which can lead to the rapid proliferation of 'bad' gut bacteria

the very best thing to do is to get him to a vet asap

make sure he does not feel cold to the touch, hypothermia + shock can occur rapidly with acute onset abdominal pain

so provide a heat source for him and as previously stated, get him to a vet
 
Thanks Jane, will replace the water with fresh and take the pineapple juice away. He wouldn't eat anything so even when I tried to feed him he only had 0.5ml. Will tell OH not to syringe feed. He had cold ears, but the window was open last night so don't know if that's why or if he's hypothermic.

I'm so sorry, I didn't want to make him worse, I just thought pineapple was good for upset tummies and that trying him to encourage to eat something was better than nothing to maybe get his guts going again if that's what it was. I wasn't sure, don't know what's wrong.

I'm at work, feel so helpless. I need him to be ok.

edit: I listened to his stomach with my stethoscope and there were gut sounds present at 06:45.
 
He has now eaten three sticks of carrot but I am still confused as to why he has a wet bottom and is behaving so strangely. :(
 
He needs to see a vet, Cari. There is nothing you or we can do without a diagnosis. If the gut has stopped, even oral metacam won't work properly.

I've heard that companion care vets are open on a sunday morning. All out of hours vets will be too. Your partner needs to take him.

My guess is that the behaviour is due to the pain he is in.

I hope he's okay, make sure to give us an update.
 
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He's absolutely fine. Don't know what happened this morning but by the time I made it home he was eating normally and he was hopping about like a happy chappy. :? He's going tomorrow for a check up as I decided it wasn't an acute emergency any more as he appeared fine when I got back. Odd.
 
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