Post by dianewilsher on Oct 25, 2007 8:33:43 GMT
Last Sunday Poppy give us quite a scare when she suddenly stopped eating and was in the corner of the cage with her head down.
When I had lifted her out she was all dirty underneath and we were really concerned and there was no vets open. Monday we took her to the vet and it was a long wait of one hour and a half before we eventually seen the vet, who is a Polish woman and had an emergency case of a dog who had a ruptured fracture so they got in touch with another vet from the Budget Vets Team in Newport to come to the Abertillery surgery to assist Margaret with the operation for this dog.
When Margaret finally seen Poppy, she examined her and said she was heavily pregnant but Poppy had developed diahorrea and margaret DIDN'T know what treatment to give her so she asked if we could leave Poppy with them till the other vet arrived so we did that and came home.
Anyway by quarter past six pm Julie had rung up to see if the other vet had turned up and looked at Poppy and he had turned up and seen her and we were told that we could go up and fetch her home so we caught the bus up. Got into the vets and was kept waiting ANOTHER HOUR AND A HALF before being finally told what was wrong with her and Margaret said that she was going to give her Baytril and also said that if the babies were born deformed they would have to be put to sleep. Well that upset me and I had to pay £20.92 for this consultation. We didn't get home till ten to eight that evening. I was to mix the dose with water and syringe it into her twice a day for 5 days. Well we have been told that baytril was dangerous to the growing babies and it would kill them and the mother so we stopped using it.
Julie rung our friend on the Welsh National Cavy Club Committee who is also a judge at the shows and asked her advice. Rose suggested Dioralyte to mix in the drinnking water to replace the water lost by the diahorrea and replace the body salts and some Children's Koalin so we got those from the chemist and Julie has mixed a sachet with water in a small seperate drinking bottle. I was to cut out all greens and she was to be kept on a hay and water diet.
The diahorrea has cleared up and, also on Sunday, I bathed her eyes with warm water and used tea bags and now they have cleared up. She has eaten a small amount of cucumber and been drinking from the bottle but today she is still in the corner and we have to encourage her to eat her normal guinea pig food. I am so upset that the vet, whose job it is to save our pets' lives, had tried to kill Poppy with baytril.
She is still not eating. How can we now get her to eat?
Lots of love
Diane
When I had lifted her out she was all dirty underneath and we were really concerned and there was no vets open. Monday we took her to the vet and it was a long wait of one hour and a half before we eventually seen the vet, who is a Polish woman and had an emergency case of a dog who had a ruptured fracture so they got in touch with another vet from the Budget Vets Team in Newport to come to the Abertillery surgery to assist Margaret with the operation for this dog.
When Margaret finally seen Poppy, she examined her and said she was heavily pregnant but Poppy had developed diahorrea and margaret DIDN'T know what treatment to give her so she asked if we could leave Poppy with them till the other vet arrived so we did that and came home.
Anyway by quarter past six pm Julie had rung up to see if the other vet had turned up and looked at Poppy and he had turned up and seen her and we were told that we could go up and fetch her home so we caught the bus up. Got into the vets and was kept waiting ANOTHER HOUR AND A HALF before being finally told what was wrong with her and Margaret said that she was going to give her Baytril and also said that if the babies were born deformed they would have to be put to sleep. Well that upset me and I had to pay £20.92 for this consultation. We didn't get home till ten to eight that evening. I was to mix the dose with water and syringe it into her twice a day for 5 days. Well we have been told that baytril was dangerous to the growing babies and it would kill them and the mother so we stopped using it.
Julie rung our friend on the Welsh National Cavy Club Committee who is also a judge at the shows and asked her advice. Rose suggested Dioralyte to mix in the drinnking water to replace the water lost by the diahorrea and replace the body salts and some Children's Koalin so we got those from the chemist and Julie has mixed a sachet with water in a small seperate drinking bottle. I was to cut out all greens and she was to be kept on a hay and water diet.
The diahorrea has cleared up and, also on Sunday, I bathed her eyes with warm water and used tea bags and now they have cleared up. She has eaten a small amount of cucumber and been drinking from the bottle but today she is still in the corner and we have to encourage her to eat her normal guinea pig food. I am so upset that the vet, whose job it is to save our pets' lives, had tried to kill Poppy with baytril.
She is still not eating. How can we now get her to eat?
Lots of love
Diane
