Post by anielle on Mar 6, 2009 11:15:55 GMT
Hi everyone, it has been a while since I have been on here. Yesterday, I took an almost two hour drive to Toowoomba, in Queensland, where there is a Vet, Dr D. who is apparently one of the best small animal doctors in Australia who treats exotic animals.
The usual vet that I had been taking all my pets to over the past five years had given me the wrong advice on how to care for my sick pet, which almost certainly weakened my little Ernie. My regular vet had accused me of doing the wrong thing, when I mentioned that I had given my piggy some Critical Care formula. I left her surgery feeling like a bad pet owner.
However, after speaking with Dr D., he told me that I had saved Ernie, because Critical Care is exactly what Ernie needed. Ernie and Sigmund Freud were both hospitalized so that they both could be examined and given fluids. Two days ago, Ernie was hardly walking and had stopped eating and today is being syringed fed Critical care and is appearing active and alert again.
Sigmund had an impacted anus and is now on medication to manage his condition. Also, Dr D. had said that it is better for the two pigs to be together in hospital as Guinea Pigs are social creatures. One of the first things that Dr D. said that needed to be rule out was that neither pig had teeth problems, that is the first thing they look for when a pig is sick and especially in a guinea pig that has lost weight as in Ernie’s condition. Anyway, tomorrow I am going back up to Toowoomba to pick up both piggys and bring them home, and then in one week they will be returned to the Vet for further tests.
The usual vet that I had been taking all my pets to over the past five years had given me the wrong advice on how to care for my sick pet, which almost certainly weakened my little Ernie. My regular vet had accused me of doing the wrong thing, when I mentioned that I had given my piggy some Critical Care formula. I left her surgery feeling like a bad pet owner.
However, after speaking with Dr D., he told me that I had saved Ernie, because Critical Care is exactly what Ernie needed. Ernie and Sigmund Freud were both hospitalized so that they both could be examined and given fluids. Two days ago, Ernie was hardly walking and had stopped eating and today is being syringed fed Critical care and is appearing active and alert again.
Sigmund had an impacted anus and is now on medication to manage his condition. Also, Dr D. had said that it is better for the two pigs to be together in hospital as Guinea Pigs are social creatures. One of the first things that Dr D. said that needed to be rule out was that neither pig had teeth problems, that is the first thing they look for when a pig is sick and especially in a guinea pig that has lost weight as in Ernie’s condition. Anyway, tomorrow I am going back up to Toowoomba to pick up both piggys and bring them home, and then in one week they will be returned to the Vet for further tests. 
