dextersmycutegp
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Cavy Slave
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Midnight isn't really the strongest seeming type, I'm almost suprised she made it to one year just because of all the problems she seems to have/have had in her young life.
So her current problem is now she's squeaking about as loudly as a pig motorboating motorboats, when she poops. They are very stinky, soft poops too. Completely unlike the hard, unsmelly poops of my other three pigs. They are uniformly brown, just longer, softer, and more squishy than a normal poop.
When I took her to the vet for her first check up, in December, I asked the vet about that and the vet couldn't see anything outwardly wrong with Midnight that would make her poops be like this.
A little background information about Midnight that might lend a clue:
Her teeth are fine, they've been checked all the way to the back with a little teeth-checker light thing.
She is much smaller than her brother and mom. She weighs about 1 1/2 pounds compared to her familys' 2 1/2 pounds.
She is always eating.
She is very active.
When she was born one of her back legs didn't work and now it works a little bit better, but not much. She still walks funny.
Her parents are siblings and their parents were siblings.
I hardly ever see her drinking water.
Since the last time I posted about this, I've started splitting the feedings of lettuce to 1 1/2 cups in the morning and 1 1/2 cups in the evening. They also get their green pepper in the morning and they get their four baby carrots at night. That helped a little, but only for a little while, now the "monster" is back.
They get umlimited KM's timothy hay and about 1/16 a cup of pellets each since they won't eat any more pellets than that.
I really feel that something is wrong and something could be done about this, but my vet doesn't know what we could do/what could be wrong and I don't know either. I'm pretty much posting this becuase I'm hoping that someone has expierenced or seen this before. If you have any ideas at all I would apprieciate hearing them. I'm open to any suggestions.
Thanks so much in advance!
So her current problem is now she's squeaking about as loudly as a pig motorboating motorboats, when she poops. They are very stinky, soft poops too. Completely unlike the hard, unsmelly poops of my other three pigs. They are uniformly brown, just longer, softer, and more squishy than a normal poop.
When I took her to the vet for her first check up, in December, I asked the vet about that and the vet couldn't see anything outwardly wrong with Midnight that would make her poops be like this.
A little background information about Midnight that might lend a clue:
Her teeth are fine, they've been checked all the way to the back with a little teeth-checker light thing.
She is much smaller than her brother and mom. She weighs about 1 1/2 pounds compared to her familys' 2 1/2 pounds.
She is always eating.
She is very active.
When she was born one of her back legs didn't work and now it works a little bit better, but not much. She still walks funny.
Her parents are siblings and their parents were siblings.
I hardly ever see her drinking water.
Since the last time I posted about this, I've started splitting the feedings of lettuce to 1 1/2 cups in the morning and 1 1/2 cups in the evening. They also get their green pepper in the morning and they get their four baby carrots at night. That helped a little, but only for a little while, now the "monster" is back.
They get umlimited KM's timothy hay and about 1/16 a cup of pellets each since they won't eat any more pellets than that.
I really feel that something is wrong and something could be done about this, but my vet doesn't know what we could do/what could be wrong and I don't know either. I'm pretty much posting this becuase I'm hoping that someone has expierenced or seen this before. If you have any ideas at all I would apprieciate hearing them. I'm open to any suggestions.
Thanks so much in advance!