Re: Pooping/Peeing blood, 3 possible illnesses, & a few other questions for you guys.
C_Elise, I'm sorry if I misunderstood you, but I read back through your thread, and I don't see where you said that you force fed her. I see where you said you tried, and you offered her food, but not that you fed her.
That's the point I was trying to get across -- that it's not an option for the pig to refuse. You have to insist, before she gets so sick she can't eat, that she is going to eat what you're syringe feeding her. Most people are way too timid when doing that, and it's the pig that ultimately suffers.
Wow,
really? Well if youre going to keep this up, this was a response back to YOU actually, when I was satisfied that although she was not eating pellets or hay on her own, she was eating celery just fine on her own which you took as I had only given her 1/4th a piece of celery, and here was my response:
And the next screen shot is of me coming to you guys for advice, (
because isn't that what a forum is for?..), because I stated what my difficulty was and I was frustrated that she wasn't consuming enough, so I was seeking advice for maybe a better more effective way considering it was taking much longer my way (which points towards the fact that I was force feeding her)
And the last screen shot response I have to share where I
again, blatantly wrote about force feeding her with a syringe, I again was explaining to you all my frustration with how I felt it shouldn't be as hard as it was, hoping I'd get some alternative advice like, "oh hey I had the same issue but I did this ______ instead!", but I wrote that I was accepting the fact that it was difficult as hell and that the syringe would frequently get lodged with pellet pieces and I would have to pause frequently to unlodge the syringe. I even stated that because I was paranoid she wasn't consuming as much as I thought she should, that I was going to feed her more frequently throughout the day than the recommended 4 - 6 feeding times per day.
Today was in fact the only day since I started this thread that I was unable to
force feed her, yes. Thank you for pointing that out to me and hinting towards she died because of me. Don't you think I'm already upset by the fact that I of course realize the possible reason behind her death today is because I literally
could not get her to eat a single drop? No matter
how much I pumped into her mouth she didn't swallow a single bit of it for hours while I sat there and fought with her to get her to swallow even hopefully ONE bite. She remained perfectly still, where as the previous days she turned her head every which way to fight off the syringe from entering her mouth. Today she just was as still as can be eat time, letting me slip the syringe in and out between her lips and it would just fill her mouth full then begin over flowing out the sides of her mouth down her chin and chest. Today was different. I wasn't timid, I sat for hours working at it, she wasn't going to give. But you're making me feel awfully wonderful 3 1/2 hours after I find my girl dead with Vanek huddled by her side.
I understand you care greatly about pigs, but don't think youre the only one out there. Have a heart, Bpatters. Get over yourself and get off your high horse here. READ, don't skim through, because I made it clear that I was feeding her, having a tough time while doing it, feeling frustrated and defeated at times, but I was determined and kept to it and didn't quit.