Smudgetoffee
Well-known Member
Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2007
- Posts
- 186
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2007
- Messages
- 186
Spidey senses have been tingling for a while with this one.
Our pig, Smudge, is 6~7 years old. Has suffered from impaction for several months and has to be "emptied" every other day.
He's also had bloat problems for most of his life (which very nearly killed him at the age of ~3 years, a dose of fibreplex was what brought him back).
He's been acting oddly, I can't put my finger on it. Begging constantly but refusing/slowly eating anything we give him. Last time he did this was shortly before the aforementioned bloating incident.
Got him into the vets earlier, and apparently his back teeth are only just starting to go out of control, and he has a growth "the size of the plum" in his cecum. His teeth have been excellent for most of his life and has only ever needed the occasional small trim of the front four teeth.
They are worried it's some form of tumor and he is going in for an X-ray tomorrow (they're going to see if they can do the teeth while they're there, too).
He has been prescribed Infacol (for the umpteenth time), and Liquid Paraffin 3xdaily.
Just want to know. What should I expect? How likely is it to be cancer, and would it be kinder to put him down given his old age if so?
What else could it be? How should I be caring for him?
Cheers
Our pig, Smudge, is 6~7 years old. Has suffered from impaction for several months and has to be "emptied" every other day.
He's also had bloat problems for most of his life (which very nearly killed him at the age of ~3 years, a dose of fibreplex was what brought him back).
He's been acting oddly, I can't put my finger on it. Begging constantly but refusing/slowly eating anything we give him. Last time he did this was shortly before the aforementioned bloating incident.
Got him into the vets earlier, and apparently his back teeth are only just starting to go out of control, and he has a growth "the size of the plum" in his cecum. His teeth have been excellent for most of his life and has only ever needed the occasional small trim of the front four teeth.
They are worried it's some form of tumor and he is going in for an X-ray tomorrow (they're going to see if they can do the teeth while they're there, too).
He has been prescribed Infacol (for the umpteenth time), and Liquid Paraffin 3xdaily.
Just want to know. What should I expect? How likely is it to be cancer, and would it be kinder to put him down given his old age if so?
What else could it be? How should I be caring for him?
Cheers
