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Wise Old Thumper
Sharon, my Kirby foster was having trouble breathing on Sunday when she was in her run and she has white stuff coming out of her nose (not a lot but a bit), I checked her front paws and she had been wiping her nose, I thought she might have had Pasteurella.
I made everything comfortable for her, I hung a cloth with olbus oil outside her hutch and she has a bowl of porridge everyday (she gets thin) so I mixed an Echinacea tea bag in with it, which she ate.
I planned to take her to the vets on Monday evening, but when I got up Monday, she was breathing particularly badly, so I took the day off and took her in the morning. There was no stuff coming out of her nose anymore and her paws were not that matted on the inside.
The vet is not sure if it's pasteurella, because a culture sample needs to be taken of the white stuff, but there wasn't any to take. I have to get some next time it comes out (there hasn't been any since), but when she examined her, she's got a lump her chest
Mel (my vet) said she can operate but her breathing needs to go back to normal first. She'd perked up she's on antibiotics twice a day, I am continuing with the Olbus oil and echincea. Sharon had perked up no end on Monday evening and her breathing was slower (although not normal).
When I checked her yesterday morning she was breathing bad again and she had pressed her face right up to the olbus oil cloth, so I think it was helping her breath. She was no worse then Monday morning though, so I think the damp overnight upsets her chest.
I cover the hutches with plastic sheets at night, to keep the heat in. I'm wondering if it would be better not to cover her up to let the air circulate, but then I don't want her to get cold? I was worried she was going to be dead when I got in from work last night, but she wasn't and she'd perked up again.
This morning when I went to wake her up and move the sheeting and give her, her antibiotics. She again had her face pressed up against where the olbus cloth, but her breathing was a little better and she seem brighter then what she has been in the previous mornings.
She's back at the vets tomorrow night for her check up, I am very worried about her having a op to remove the lump as she is beyond skinny and I'm afraid the GA will kill her . I am desperate to see some more snot so I can get it analysed, it's all very worrying.
One good thing though she was weighed at the vets and she was the same weight she was when she was there last time (which was when we had that really hot weather in the summer and she had heat stroke), so the daily porridge is working, but she is just skin on bones literally, she scoffs loads of hay pellets and veg too.
I feel really bad as her body is obviously giving up on her, but she wants to live she is happy, bright, always excited to see me, but her whole body seems to be working against her.
Hopefully she should be on septim tomorrow instead of the baytrill, but Mel wanted to try that first and she's ordered the Septim for Thursday.
Any idea's guys?
I made everything comfortable for her, I hung a cloth with olbus oil outside her hutch and she has a bowl of porridge everyday (she gets thin) so I mixed an Echinacea tea bag in with it, which she ate.
I planned to take her to the vets on Monday evening, but when I got up Monday, she was breathing particularly badly, so I took the day off and took her in the morning. There was no stuff coming out of her nose anymore and her paws were not that matted on the inside.
The vet is not sure if it's pasteurella, because a culture sample needs to be taken of the white stuff, but there wasn't any to take. I have to get some next time it comes out (there hasn't been any since), but when she examined her, she's got a lump her chest
Mel (my vet) said she can operate but her breathing needs to go back to normal first. She'd perked up she's on antibiotics twice a day, I am continuing with the Olbus oil and echincea. Sharon had perked up no end on Monday evening and her breathing was slower (although not normal).
When I checked her yesterday morning she was breathing bad again and she had pressed her face right up to the olbus oil cloth, so I think it was helping her breath. She was no worse then Monday morning though, so I think the damp overnight upsets her chest.
I cover the hutches with plastic sheets at night, to keep the heat in. I'm wondering if it would be better not to cover her up to let the air circulate, but then I don't want her to get cold? I was worried she was going to be dead when I got in from work last night, but she wasn't and she'd perked up again.
This morning when I went to wake her up and move the sheeting and give her, her antibiotics. She again had her face pressed up against where the olbus cloth, but her breathing was a little better and she seem brighter then what she has been in the previous mornings.
She's back at the vets tomorrow night for her check up, I am very worried about her having a op to remove the lump as she is beyond skinny and I'm afraid the GA will kill her
. I am desperate to see some more snot so I can get it analysed, it's all very worrying.One good thing though she was weighed at the vets and she was the same weight she was when she was there last time (which was when we had that really hot weather in the summer and she had heat stroke), so the daily porridge is working, but she is just skin on bones literally, she scoffs loads of hay pellets and veg too.
I feel really bad as her body is obviously giving up on her, but she wants to live she is happy, bright, always excited to see me, but her whole body seems to be working against her.
Hopefully she should be on septim tomorrow instead of the baytrill, but Mel wanted to try that first and she's ordered the Septim for Thursday.
Any idea's guys?
