Our Nethie Minnie (aged 3) was taken to the vets to have her teeth burred as we noticed she was grinding her teeth and drooling. When under anaesthetic, the vet noticed an abscess in her mouth.
The vet put her on Baytril, but this had no affect and then we progressed to injected antibiotics. We took her in for those for 5 days and then the bank holiday came along. Today I was told that we'd have to start the antibiotics again from scratch and that she's need the injection for at least 14 days. (But the vet is closed on Sundays...)
She is OK in herself, eating and pooping as normal (we think, so hard to tell with two together) and at the moment she's her normal self apart from the teeth grinding. However the vet has explained that the abscess will only get worse and affect her quality of life. She also explained that abscesses are really hard to treat and antibiotics don't really work(??)
We love our Min but we are working horrible hours and work miles from home. It took me an hour to get to the vet from work today and they were almost closed when I got there.
I am faced with a horrible decision here which is basically spend a lot of money and somehow leave work early every day for 2 weeks and put my girl through 2 weeks of needles or take her in to be PTS.
I can't even contemplate that. I hate that this seems to complicated and from what I've read online, treating abscesses is pretty futile.
I hope someone reading this has some experience of this and can offer some advice, even if it's not what I want to hear - it would just help us with our decision.
Thanks, Dx
The vet put her on Baytril, but this had no affect and then we progressed to injected antibiotics. We took her in for those for 5 days and then the bank holiday came along. Today I was told that we'd have to start the antibiotics again from scratch and that she's need the injection for at least 14 days. (But the vet is closed on Sundays...)
She is OK in herself, eating and pooping as normal (we think, so hard to tell with two together) and at the moment she's her normal self apart from the teeth grinding. However the vet has explained that the abscess will only get worse and affect her quality of life. She also explained that abscesses are really hard to treat and antibiotics don't really work(??)
We love our Min but we are working horrible hours and work miles from home. It took me an hour to get to the vet from work today and they were almost closed when I got there.
I am faced with a horrible decision here which is basically spend a lot of money and somehow leave work early every day for 2 weeks and put my girl through 2 weeks of needles or take her in to be PTS.
I can't even contemplate that. I hate that this seems to complicated and from what I've read online, treating abscesses is pretty futile.
I hope someone reading this has some experience of this and can offer some advice, even if it's not what I want to hear - it would just help us with our decision.
Thanks, Dx