rachieanne99
Well-known Member
Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2005
- Posts
- 111
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2005
- Messages
- 111
I am having some issues, and I need some support. This place is the only place I can come where people understand what I’m going through. I lost my first and only piggy a few months ago. It absolutely devastated me. I loved her so incredibly much and did everything I could for her. It must have been so hard for her…getting saline injections for dehydrations, antibiotics, hand feeding her. Her deterioration was so fast, and I just wasn’t ready for it. She my baby, I only had her for 4 months. After so many trips to the vet and so many treatments—she died. It made me feel so hopeless. Have any of you guys had pigs recover from a URI? My Gabby was definitely a runt, so I’m wondering if the infection plus the treatment was just too hard on her body. I don’t think I’ll ever know exactly how she did, except that I was able to hold her during her last breath. Now that I have my two new beautiful girls, I am scared to death something is going to happen to them. But I am also scared to death of going to the vet again. The vet didn’t cure her, so, in my mind, the vet did nothing. I would do anything for my girls, cost is not an issue. But, if the vet truly isn’t going to save her, then I don’t know why I would want to put that added stress on my animal when she is already weak. I want to be at a point where I feel confident about going back to the vet if I ever have to. Right now, it terrifies me. In my mind right now, I equate going to the vet with eventual death. I just think I need to hear stories with happy endings.