Simonmaal
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Jul 31, 2008
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- Joined
- Jul 31, 2008
- Messages
- 316
I noticed this morning that Billy, one of my boys, had a lot of hair stuck together in a clump on the right hand side of his ribcage region. The matted fur was about 2 inches long by half an inch high. Upon looking closer, there was blood in the hair and a terrible smell. So I picked him up to take a look at him (which he squealed about, suggesting he was in pain), made sure there were no maggots in the area (which there were not) and noticed what looked like a flesh wound. He was also slightly listless and not his usual self.
So I made an appointment with the vet, who discovered a large abscess that looked frighteningly deep. The vet immediately flushed out the abscess and gave him an antibiotic injection, giving me baytril and 2 sachets of Supreme science recovery to take away with me. The vet asked me to make another appointment for 5 days' time unless he got worse or refused to eat. The vet also said that surgery would probably be necessary to remove the infected area.
Back home we went and, upon the vet's advice, I made him a new cage so he could recover alone. I put him in the new cage and within seconds, I noticed a huge amount of yellow pus on top of the fleece, about 4 inches long by an inch wide. I've cleaned it up and not yet seen any more but I am obviously really worried; this is a huge amount of pus, even if it came from a human; the fact it has come from a guinea pig is causing me a lot of distress. Billy is eating his hay but is not very full of energy, although he is not looking exhausted.
Strangely, Bobby, his former cagemate, has done nothing but popcorn around his cage since I separated them, but that is perhaps another story…
The main purpose of this post is to prepare myself for what the likely outcome of this situation is: has anybody here had any experience with this condition and if so, what is the likely outcome? This is not something I will come back to complain about if the prediction is wrong, but if this is potentially be fatal then it would help me to know that.
I will give it another few minutes to see if any more pus emerges and if so, I will return to the vet immediately.
So I made an appointment with the vet, who discovered a large abscess that looked frighteningly deep. The vet immediately flushed out the abscess and gave him an antibiotic injection, giving me baytril and 2 sachets of Supreme science recovery to take away with me. The vet asked me to make another appointment for 5 days' time unless he got worse or refused to eat. The vet also said that surgery would probably be necessary to remove the infected area.
Back home we went and, upon the vet's advice, I made him a new cage so he could recover alone. I put him in the new cage and within seconds, I noticed a huge amount of yellow pus on top of the fleece, about 4 inches long by an inch wide. I've cleaned it up and not yet seen any more but I am obviously really worried; this is a huge amount of pus, even if it came from a human; the fact it has come from a guinea pig is causing me a lot of distress. Billy is eating his hay but is not very full of energy, although he is not looking exhausted.
Strangely, Bobby, his former cagemate, has done nothing but popcorn around his cage since I separated them, but that is perhaps another story…
The main purpose of this post is to prepare myself for what the likely outcome of this situation is: has anybody here had any experience with this condition and if so, what is the likely outcome? This is not something I will come back to complain about if the prediction is wrong, but if this is potentially be fatal then it would help me to know that.
I will give it another few minutes to see if any more pus emerges and if so, I will return to the vet immediately.