donnapem1987
New Kit
Hi there. I'm a newbie here. Last year we adopted a mother and son pair, Ben and Holly from the rspca. They have lived outside in a converted shed with an attached run and seemed to be loving being a part of the family. Sadly two days ago, my partner went out to do the evening feed and found that Holly had passes away. It was a complete shock a only for hours previous myself and my daughters had gone out to play and clean their litter trays and Holly seemed to be fine. She was naturally shy anyway butwas hoping around playing with her treat ball as normal. As you can imagine the whole family I'd gutted and we are very worried about Ben. Having spoken with the vet, she thinks it is most likely gut statsis that Holly had as apparently that can set in pretty quick. She wants to treat Ben as a precautionary measure as he was starting to show signs of weight loss. We have brought him inside so that we can monitor him more closely, as well as the fact that we don't want him outside alone and he seems to have adopted my eldest daughter as a surrogate mummy by cuddling up to her and nudging her to play like he did with Holly. The vet has told me to give him panacur, to be administered straight into the mouth. I'm really struggling with doing this, as he won't let me anywhere near his mouth when I hold him. Has anyone got any tips on how best to get him to take it please? Thanks in advance of any responses!