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Thank you, everyone, really, for caring and being so very nice. I really appreciate all of your replies.
They're back home now, and the vet gave Casper a thorough check-up. His guts and stomach are fine, and everything is fine, really, except for his teeth. His last dental was 5 weeks ago, but one of his molars is already growing a big spur. (And that awful vet yesterday said that his teeth were fine. :roll So, the vet thinks that's what's keeping him from eating well. He has Emeprid now, in addition to his Metacam, and we'll see if he'll start eating better with that, but if he doesn't he'll need another dental, and the vet said that since this spur has come back so quickly he might need very regular dentals in the future, which wouldn't be great at his age. It's odd, though, because before this last dental he hadn't needed one for over a year and a half, so it's strange that it has come back so suddenly now, and I wonder if it's because of the new hay I started giving him after his last dental. Before this they got soft timothy hay and meadow hay and some other hay, but the past couple of weeks they've been eating long, stalky timothy hay and they've been loving it so much that they've barely touched the other hay. I had expected the long, stalky timothy hay to be good for their teeth, but maybe their old hay was better for their teeth and that's why this sput has been able to come back so quickly? :? The vet said to minimise his not-hay food so he'll eat as much hay as he can, so I'll do that, though at the moment he doesn't want to eat hay at all, so I can't do that now, of course...
They're back home now, and the vet gave Casper a thorough check-up. His guts and stomach are fine, and everything is fine, really, except for his teeth. His last dental was 5 weeks ago, but one of his molars is already growing a big spur. (And that awful vet yesterday said that his teeth were fine. :roll So, the vet thinks that's what's keeping him from eating well. He has Emeprid now, in addition to his Metacam, and we'll see if he'll start eating better with that, but if he doesn't he'll need another dental, and the vet said that since this spur has come back so quickly he might need very regular dentals in the future, which wouldn't be great at his age. It's odd, though, because before this last dental he hadn't needed one for over a year and a half, so it's strange that it has come back so suddenly now, and I wonder if it's because of the new hay I started giving him after his last dental. Before this they got soft timothy hay and meadow hay and some other hay, but the past couple of weeks they've been eating long, stalky timothy hay and they've been loving it so much that they've barely touched the other hay. I had expected the long, stalky timothy hay to be good for their teeth, but maybe their old hay was better for their teeth and that's why this sput has been able to come back so quickly? :? The vet said to minimise his not-hay food so he'll eat as much hay as he can, so I'll do that, though at the moment he doesn't want to eat hay at all, so I can't do that now, of course...