Pumpkin_RIP
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2008
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- 224
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2008
- Messages
- 224
Ok, so I have a young pig, about 3 months old, named Savannah(my avatar pig) Anyways, she loves to crawl up onto my shoulder when I hold her and play with my hair. Since she is small enough, I let her. Yesterday, she was up on my shoulder while I was getting her some veggies, when as I turned around, she seemed to kinda energeticly turn around in the opposite direction as I, and fell off my shoulder!! I freaked out(of course), literally threw her food from my hands and scooped her up. I had turned to see how she landed just in time. She had landed lopsided on her left hindfoot but righted herself immediately. I scooped her up and checked her all over for any signs of broken bones, and I kinda gently poked her around her hindlegs to see if she showed any signs of pain. She didn't but I was still worried. So, I set her own and watched her walk around, and she seemed fine. No limping or walking funny.
Later that day she was out for floor time when I noticed that all of a sudden she wasn't using the leg that she landed on. I checked it again and compared it to the other foot and they both looked and felt just fine. I know I am not a vet and can't tell these things just by looking at them, so I talked to my mom about taking her to the vet. She looked at her foot and said if she did hurt it, she would have fractured it since no bones seemed to be out of place. We waited a day to see how Savannah was the next day. Today, she is still hardly using her left leg, and I am so worried. I was gently and slowly bending each foot to compare, when I felt a slight clicking feeling when I bent her hind foot at the joint in the middle/end of her foot. Compared to the foot she didn't land on, I did not feel that click. I think it may be fractured. My mom says that the vets will not be able to do anything about it, and we will just have to be very gently with her until it heals. When I let her outside today for play time in the grass. She didn;t run around at all, anddidn't eat much grass. HELP!! I feel awfull for letting her get hurt :sorry: I feel so guilty.
Please, what do I do? Is my mom right, or should I take her to the vet? (sorry for such a loooong post)
Later that day she was out for floor time when I noticed that all of a sudden she wasn't using the leg that she landed on. I checked it again and compared it to the other foot and they both looked and felt just fine. I know I am not a vet and can't tell these things just by looking at them, so I talked to my mom about taking her to the vet. She looked at her foot and said if she did hurt it, she would have fractured it since no bones seemed to be out of place. We waited a day to see how Savannah was the next day. Today, she is still hardly using her left leg, and I am so worried. I was gently and slowly bending each foot to compare, when I felt a slight clicking feeling when I bent her hind foot at the joint in the middle/end of her foot. Compared to the foot she didn't land on, I did not feel that click. I think it may be fractured. My mom says that the vets will not be able to do anything about it, and we will just have to be very gently with her until it heals. When I let her outside today for play time in the grass. She didn;t run around at all, anddidn't eat much grass. HELP!! I feel awfull for letting her get hurt :sorry: I feel so guilty.
Please, what do I do? Is my mom right, or should I take her to the vet? (sorry for such a loooong post)