Craig 1965
Warren Veteran
Good evening RU friends. It's been a few weeks since I posted anything relative to Lillian & Henry. But Ihave been following everybuns thread.
Things have been reasonably quiet so far (touch wood) with Lillian & Henry but I thought I'd update you on their progress following todays vet visit.
Don't panic - the vet visit was planned for Henry and his follow up RHD2 vaccine (more of that in a moment).
Henry had his first part of the RHD/myxy jab 2 weeks ago. He's not a fan of the vet and we had all sorts of problems last year with the jab. Henry's weight 2 weeks ago was 1.9kg which was I thought, pretty ok for a nethie. He was perky and full of beans, as you would expect. But following the injection, Henry sort of changed. He got runny tummy - pretty bad, and didn't do as much zoomies. His tummy also gurgled alot - noticable as I was cleaning his bottom. He was eating ok and drinking.
Lillian meanwhile, was/is fine. We've reduced pellet intake to a tiny weeny handful in the morning and at night. Which is tricky because Henry loves pellets. But we need yo reduce Lillians weight so it's more greens/herbs/hay and less pellets. Poor Lillian is....welll....starving! She has 4 mouthfuls to Henry's one. Get her in the garden and she's all over the lawn. And I'm still working on getting footage of her ringing the bell - which I will do over xmas. She rang it deliberately 5 times the other evening in her demand for food.
Anyhoo, my concern was Henry and his follow up for the RHD2 vaccine was tonight and we took Lills along for company.
Vet gave Henry a thorough examination. Temperature was normal - spot on. She heard the tummy gurgling which the vet felt was Henry's tummy working overtime - so I guess that's better than stasis. The vet suggested that this could be due to Henry's lack of intake of pellets (he's been having to eat more greens). And also the small doasage of metacam that we've given Henry the last couple of evenings to try and see if that helped. Metacam, so I was informed, can also lead to diahorrea. I didn't know that.
I was concerned that Henry had lost weight but was quite surprised that he has actually put on weight - he is 2kg. So I took that as a positive.
The vet decided to hold back on the vaccine until his tummy has settled. I agree with that totally. So now we have to find a way of giving Henry more pellets and less greens, whilst giving Lillian less pellets and more greens. No one said this would be easy.
Lillian, meanwhile, was just along for the ride and to keep Henry comforted. But we toook the opportunity to get her weighed. Lillians last weight in November was 3.65kg and I was hoping to see that go down. And thankfully her weight has fallen slightly to 3.6kg. Not massive, but small steps with Lillian.
We're back next week for Henry's vaccination so hopefully his tummy will be settled by then.
Sending everybun xmas wishes from everyone here - and a massive thank you to you all for all the wonderful support you have shown and given for Lillian and Henry this year.
Craig xx
Things have been reasonably quiet so far (touch wood) with Lillian & Henry but I thought I'd update you on their progress following todays vet visit.
Don't panic - the vet visit was planned for Henry and his follow up RHD2 vaccine (more of that in a moment).
Henry had his first part of the RHD/myxy jab 2 weeks ago. He's not a fan of the vet and we had all sorts of problems last year with the jab. Henry's weight 2 weeks ago was 1.9kg which was I thought, pretty ok for a nethie. He was perky and full of beans, as you would expect. But following the injection, Henry sort of changed. He got runny tummy - pretty bad, and didn't do as much zoomies. His tummy also gurgled alot - noticable as I was cleaning his bottom. He was eating ok and drinking.
Lillian meanwhile, was/is fine. We've reduced pellet intake to a tiny weeny handful in the morning and at night. Which is tricky because Henry loves pellets. But we need yo reduce Lillians weight so it's more greens/herbs/hay and less pellets. Poor Lillian is....welll....starving! She has 4 mouthfuls to Henry's one. Get her in the garden and she's all over the lawn. And I'm still working on getting footage of her ringing the bell - which I will do over xmas. She rang it deliberately 5 times the other evening in her demand for food.
Anyhoo, my concern was Henry and his follow up for the RHD2 vaccine was tonight and we took Lills along for company.
Vet gave Henry a thorough examination. Temperature was normal - spot on. She heard the tummy gurgling which the vet felt was Henry's tummy working overtime - so I guess that's better than stasis. The vet suggested that this could be due to Henry's lack of intake of pellets (he's been having to eat more greens). And also the small doasage of metacam that we've given Henry the last couple of evenings to try and see if that helped. Metacam, so I was informed, can also lead to diahorrea. I didn't know that.
I was concerned that Henry had lost weight but was quite surprised that he has actually put on weight - he is 2kg. So I took that as a positive.
The vet decided to hold back on the vaccine until his tummy has settled. I agree with that totally. So now we have to find a way of giving Henry more pellets and less greens, whilst giving Lillian less pellets and more greens. No one said this would be easy.
Lillian, meanwhile, was just along for the ride and to keep Henry comforted. But we toook the opportunity to get her weighed. Lillians last weight in November was 3.65kg and I was hoping to see that go down. And thankfully her weight has fallen slightly to 3.6kg. Not massive, but small steps with Lillian.
We're back next week for Henry's vaccination so hopefully his tummy will be settled by then.
Sending everybun xmas wishes from everyone here - and a massive thank you to you all for all the wonderful support you have shown and given for Lillian and Henry this year.
Craig xx
, i'm glad things are going well (in the main).
