erikahand83
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Apr 7, 2008
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- 172
- Joined
- Apr 7, 2008
- Messages
- 172
So, anyways I'm back. Haven't been online in awhile, busy taking caring of my Midnight. This whole thing started saturday night after I got off work from a nine hour shift at work. I get home around eleven oclock and go in to say hello to my piggies. I noticed that standing right next to the cage it had a touch of stench to it and if I'm standing right next to it thats enough reason for me to clean it out. So I'm taking all of their stuff out of the cage and Midnight raises up his back end and squeals in pain. At first I thought he was just talking to me but he kept on doing it every couple of minutes while in the petstore cage I put them in while I'm cleaning their big one out. So at this time is about one in the morning and decide to give him overnight to improve. Well, I wake up and he is still sqealing in pain periodically every couple of minutes so I call my local vet around one pm (he is in church until around that time). I tell him all his symptoms and he decides to make a house call thinking that he might be backed up in the rear end section, but nope he's not. Oh yeah, I weighed him two weeks ago and he was at 1380grams, now he's down to 1092 (seems like alot of weight loss for such a short period of time). Anyways he decides it would be best to wait until the next day when he has access to all of his tools and tricks of the trade at his office. So I take midnight in the next day and he decides to take a urine sample for starters, we both stared in amazement when his urine came out very cloudy to the point it was almost a white color. He said it looked like a clear sign of infection in the bladder area plus he could feel his bladder wall had thickened up some over night. Anyways he decided to check it out under a microscrope and put some a test strip. Sure enough it came back positive for a high white blood cell count confirming that he had a UTI. He put him on baytril, 6 tenths of a ml once a day for a week, he gave him his first shot at the office and then I'm going to give the rest orally at home. So, I wake up this morning and go in to give his medicine and now his eyes and nose is all crusty so I called him again at his office and he now thinks he has a URI now, port guy. So he said that the baytril will treat the URI as well as the UTI. Well now that I've ranted on for so long about my poor little one prayers and any advice that some might have would be welcome. Thanks Again for everyones patience with such long messages.